JoJozay

Is this what the grading is in most CRNA classes?

If you only look at your military salary that you are making after you finish your education then it is not much compared to the pay you make as a civilian. Even as a captain your base pay will not be more than $50K/ year. Of course you can live on base free or get more pay if living off base and many other options to make it comparable perhaps.

I was actually considering moving back home to Chicago since I could live with my parents or other relatives and work at Rush since it is a teaching hospital and Magnet facility in hopes of increasing my chances of getting accepted in a similar route that you took. Nice to know someone went that route. Excellent post. Good luck rockabye.

Paula, you're the best. Good luck and congratualtions at the job you have waiting at HHS! JoJo

do most school require the GRE? I'd imagine it would be harder to take the GRE with such a long amount of time between those classes and the GRE. JoJo

This is a bit strange to me but it seems if you retake a class and your last grade is an A and was taken within 5 years then you are equal to or almost equal to someone who has gotten an A on their first try? A number of people mention that admissions looks for improvement. J

Too true:Lab, discussion, lecture, blah blah blah. lol

Are you going to get a pass/fail grade? Or is your grade computed without the lab?

I'm going to do all the pre-reqs over since I want to do well on the GRE when I take it but was wondering what admission officers were doing currently. Thanks for all the replies. I love this forum. J

I got a C in Chemistry 10 years ago. By the time I'd be able to apply to a CRNA school it will be a grade that is about 15 years old. I know that most of the CRNA Programs want to use pre-req grades that are no older than 5 years for admittance but will they even look at my grades from so far back and count it against me? I'm an A student these days. Thanks!

How many men started out in that class of 40? I'm male and was just curious. Thanks JoJo

Good luck with everything! I'm glad i found someone in the program there but I have a handful of questions: 1) when you say that it is very competitive is that because most of the nursing students do not study together? Are the teachers available to help you outside of class or is there some type of mentor program, tutorial programs, stress management for students, school nusring association or help preparing for the licensing exam? 2)On average how many 12 week semester will your classmates be in the clinical phase to complete this program? 3)What is your school day like? are you in school mon-fri all day long? looking at the Nursing sequence it does not appear to be a heavy course load the last two 12 week semesters. 4)Did you work at all during the program? 5)During the nursing program are any of classes held at a hospital or are you required to do clinical rotations at a hospital? I did not see anything explained like that in the Nursing Student Handbook but a note under the nursing course sequence states "all clinical learning experiences will be held in area health care experiences" 6) I have taken psychology and composition at another school about 10 years ago. Do you know if they have a time limit on accepting key courses for transfer credit? sorry for all of the questions but I'm really excited to finish up my key courses in Fall 2004! thanks.

I plan to finish my pre-reqs there and apply to the nursing program for the Spring 2005 semester. Does anyone have any comments on the nursing program? Also for the first time in doing research on nursing I am reading there are waiting lists of up to 2 years long. Can this be avoided by having a very high GPA with my pre-reqs? thanks!

Also I saw some student extern positions. Is that what you are talking about? Some had obligations attached to work at the hospital after graduation in exchange for paying some tuition. Do some just offer some small salary instead of scholarship with obligations?

Thanks! what are some tech positions that I would be able to do in the ICU that do not require a lot of time for education? I will be getting my ADN and will not have much time after September. Just looking at my options outside of working as a student nurse. I saw one hospital offering education as a nurse extern and then after that you are allowed to become a nurse tech. Is that the tech position you meant? Thanks again. JoJo