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The COA has a site that is kept up to date. The link below will help you to evaluate Wolford College. CRNA School Search

Yeah, probably wouldn't be a good fit for either of you!

Sounds to me like a miscommunication on the part of the office. Don't believe that the school would lie to you (a deliberate act). Did you call them to seek clarification? Perhaps you should ask to speak to the director of the school.

The TCU School of Nurse Anesthesia has a great reputation in the nurse anesthesia community. The director of the school was the 2008 AANA Program Director of the Year and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Council on Accreditation. It is at th...

Actually, you are wrong regarding the COA being involved. The COA DID NOT send the email...only the NBCRNA. The COA has NOTHING to do with certification only accreditation of educational programs. The problem has been the relationship between the AAN...

The COA has now define what is acceptable experience. The requirement for critical care is that you have experience as a Registered Nurse in a critical care area, on a daily basis, managing invasive hemodynamic monitors (such as pulmonary artery cath...

Some schools give extra weight to degrees from 4 year universities when considering the applicant. Most schools look at completely online universities with some disdain. DM

" anesthesiologists at last "liberated," as he puts it, from being confined to any single operating room". MDAs are already "liberated", by CRNAs from the OR. They are the only medical specialty that can have others doing their work and make money...

Know you are disappointed about not starting and that you were very excited to begin. Get well soon...a year will be here before you know it! DM P.S. Kay was named Program Director of the Year by the AANA!

Very sorry to hear about your illness and the delay in your plans. We know you are disappointed about this and were excited to get started. Get well, before you know it...it will be next year! DM

A few shifts over the long holiday break is OK. Working during the school semester is not a good idea. DM

Working has been the failure of many a student. Don't do it...you just might find yourself working those shifts full-time and never as a CRNA. DM

I think alot of us older CRNAs have a problem with people going into the profession just for the money. Most of us went into it because we wanted to do this type of work...the money wasn't that great comparitively speaking to general nursing. It wa...

Yes, I second what XIGRIS wrote...very good relationships with MDA's and CRNA's. Lots of autonomy and just a great teaching institution! DM

You pronounce the letters "CRNA", you don't sound out the acronym. And the anesthetist is pronounced...a-nes-the-tist. DM

I agree with many of the others who posted. Go to med school. You won't be satisfied unless you do it. Your young, so go. But, if you are going to go to be a physician, then go into a specialty where you practice medicine. In other words, if you...

Luck?! More like lots of very darn hard work! DM

Have to second this post by deepz. DM

Actually, he is a board certified anesthesiologist...not a surgeon...although he may play one sometimes! DM

There is lots of standing. I developed plantar fascitis from all of the standing on my feet. Did lots of "beating heart" CABGs in my time and can tell you that with those cases you pretty much stood the entire time. It really is a myth that you ge...

If you are working with a surgeon who went to Harvard, you will automatically have more credibility coming out of a school like U Penn than TCU. Where you went to anesthesia school may or may not matter depending on what your career aspirations are. ...

Just some info regarding the two schools in question. First, TCU may have more name recognition around the nation than the U. of Penn, just because of their sports affiliations. Regarding the fact that U. of Penn is an Ivy League School makes no diff...

Yep, I think you got it down...all of you SRNAs out there take note...good advice

From what I have been told, TCU feels that since all their applicants are CCRNs that they have a basic clinical theoretical knowledge base and ability. And the CCRN exam is not that easy, despite what the other poster says. They are interviewing to s...

If Betty Horton says that then you can take it to the bank. She was the Director of of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Programs for many years and highly respected and very very knowledgeable regarding such matters. DM