JuneRN

:balloons: Congratulation!! I could imagine how happy you were when you received the good news!!!:balloons: Way to go!!

Thanks. I have kept on telling myself to work hard on the grade, just a lot of times, I am very doubting on my ability. It seems a long way to go before I can ready myself for the application, and always doubt on myself whether I could sustain until that point. Besides, to me this path involves a lot of sacrifications too (especially the time with the family).

I would like to hear any advice from anyone of you. Since I started ADN, I got a C in nursing class, but the rest of the pre-req classes I did well (As mostly with few Bs). C in my nursing program means "2.0", so obviously this C dragged my GPA down a lot. I have a MS degree, at first I thought of going for MSN after few years of working as RN, but now, it seems to me that I have to go for BSN (while working as RN) to increase my chances to get into the MSN. What is your advice for my situation? Do I still have hope to apply the CRNA program since I have C in my nursing class? Need your most honest reply. Thanks.

Thanks Suzanne4 and XIGRIS, I am from SE Asia too. I am just too homesick and thinking about go back to work for a while after graduate. I have a BA in Finance degree from my home country, and a MS degree from the state. All of them are not related to Nursing. I may decide to go further BSN in the future.

Dear all CRNA, SRNA, and CRNA-want-to-be, I am so glad to come across this forum, and I have been surfing this bb for few weeks. Thanks for all the sincere inputs that all of you have put into this forum. I like this forum so much, it has provided me a lot of insight views of a lot of areas that I have never known about. Ok, since I am a newbie here, let me self-introduced myself. I am in my second semester of ADN program, and I have been to this country from a developing country for almost 4 years, thus I am still working hard on improving my English since it is my third language (this is also quite a reason that I have such a hard time in the nursing program because of readings which consist of lots of vocabularies). Here is my question. I have a feeling to go back to my country (developing country) to work/volunteer in ICU for certain amount of time after I graduate from the program. Then, I will come back to continue to gain the nursing experience in the states. However, I wonder whether the ICU experience that I have in my country (developing country) can be counted as part of the ICU experience that is required (at least 1 year of ICU experience as stated) by most of the CRNA program application? Any input from anyone of you will be highly appreciated. Thanks.:)