MollyS

Actually, I am an SRNA and it is not true of all places that the rate you sign on at is the one you are stuck with. The hospital I signed with has had salary increases and I will get those as well. My biggest word of advice, don't sign on too quickly...

I am in my senior year currently and it seems that the people who have made the wisest decisions are those that know what kind of a clinical environment they are getting themselves into. If you are looking for job satisfaction than that should be you...

Advice that I can give you is to know (obviously) that you are competing with the cream of the crop (as I am sure you are too!). What things can make you stand out? It sounds like you are going in the right direction. Experience is a very strong asse...

I think my brain is turning to mush, I have been reviewing my MAC lecture and cannot quite put the concept together. I am sure someone can help My understanding is that Meyer-Overton Rule says: Anesthetic potency correlates directly with lipid solubi...

Thanks for clearing things up...it's easy to get hung up on words and being a kinetic learner I know this gumbo of info will congeal when I can put things into a real context

Thank you,jwk, for educating me about the role of an AA. I do appreciate it. :wink2:

As a nurse who worked in the OR for about a year and a half, I don't think I ever saw the AA do anything more than bring supplies to the OR rooms and change tubing, etc. I was quite ignorant as to their purpose. I still am not sure exactly what they ...

One of the many reasons that I chose to start on the path (starting August 05) to becoming a CRNA is due to the fact that there is that great solidarity and strength that has greatly escaped some of the other nursing specialties. Not that I think it ...

Interviewed in 2003 at MSA in MN and was alternate. Reinterviewed in 2004 and will start this August 2005. I haven't seen anyone else post from MSA. Anyone else out there starting this fall? Good luck everyone!

I will be an SRNA in August but I just have to tell you that I am expecting all of that because I trained to be an OR nurse for 5 months and it was enough to drive me completely mad. Except not only was it CRNA's, it was surgeons, scrub tech's, other...

Thanks again, apaisRN. I think I am going to look into doing that course too! I really want to be a little more up to date on my chem.

Okay, now that I've gotten in and I am beyond excited to start my classes in the fall, I am also nervous at the same time. I am taking the advice from my previous post and I am going to take it easy until school starts. However, I wonder if you guys ...

Thanks apaisRN! Will definitely keep in touch. I am in the same boat except my chem was 3 years ago. I keep pondering taking org. chem online as well. I feel like I am having a mental mind war with myself....follow advice and relax..brush up on chem....

Thank you for the tips, it really helps to visualize what will be studied so I can at least think about what I know and maybe where I will have a harder time. Thanks!

Thanks for the tip. I went to the AANA bookstore site and I am not sure which book it was that you were talking about. Do you know the title? Thanks!

Just wondering if anyone has some advice about what to study up on before starting school in the fall. My last chem class was two years ago and I am still working in ICU. Any specific ideas would be appreciated. Also, any opinions on whether a laptop...

I just found out that I was granted an interview for this year with MSA! My problem is that last year I was so nervous and to tell the truth it was a very laid back interview style that I wasn't prepared for. The big question was, Do you have any que...

has anyone out there been rejected more than three times and can anyone give me some hope that they have gotten in after two years of applying? I have gotten my first reject letter after spending months on this app, they even required a high school t...

Thank you Roland, and everyone else for their great ideas and moral support. I know I am not the first person to go through this and I hope that someday I will be able to be on the other side of this issue helping someone else out!!!! This site is aw...

I had my interview a few days ago...am now waiting until mid february for results. The interview was not what I was expecting. As I have changed positions a few times, I have gone through a couple interviews. All of these interviews incorporated diff...

I interviewed at MSA in Minneapolis. They accept 33 students and are interviewing 100 applicants. I have my application in at St. Mary's also but they don't let you know if you get an interview until May. Has anyone experienced any other program requ...

I worked as a urology/general surgery nurse in the OR and the surgeons that were rude were the ones who were unsure of their skills/had poor patient outcomes, or were the ones who had been getting the royalty treatment for years and thought they were...