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What's going on with Union now? I'm curious...Did they get any teachers hired?

Will you be a licensed RN during this residency year? will you be taking full assignments on your own in the ICU? If so, I believe you can count this as experience. If not, then you can't. As I understand it, residency programs are a support system p...

Not really. That's why you need solid couple years experience and be comfortable with most types of patients, codes, all in a strange/new environment etc. Many times if they are short enough that they need a travel nurse, staffing ratios will not be...

Just for your planning, you should know that you cannot travel nurse until you have at least 1 year of experience in your specialty, and the better companies require minimum 2 years. As a travel nurse, you are expected to show up and be able to full...

Mine has currently gone online with classes. Clinicals are still ongoing for the moment, such as they are with elective cases being cancelled.

So you are a nursing student, not an SRNA?

Ours has said they will have something for us online to do, to replace some of clinical. If there was not a shortage of PPE, then I think it would be reasonable to continue in clinical if the person wanted to. However, with the shortage of PPE, the...

This is more along the lines of what I meant. Some schools operate with clinical sites where this is the norm. MDs push the drugs, and decide how much/what to give of each.

Update.... We are now cancelled from clinical for the forsee able future. PPE concerns. We live in interesting times..

I'd also ask about MDA oversight. I've read posts from people (prominent ones in the CRNA community) that said because of their program and the clinical sites, they graduated *without ever pushing their own induction agents*. So ask programs, at the...

I don't have experience with the east coast but I am midwest and I was similar to you. initial science GPA of 2.7. I retook anatomy and chemistry at the community college and that brought my science GPA up to 3.2. I was then scheduled to retake a cou...

I get the lament about the money. I do and agree--I applied to 3 masters and 1 doctorate program for the same reasons you outlined--I'm also older, and I wanted to be able to start working as soon as possible, regaining that paycheck 9-11 months soon...

I am wondering if anyone can fill me in on how it would work for CRNA licensure. I am graduating from one state, but I won't be staying in this state, only am here for school. Primary license is the school state license. I am hoping to work in a di...

I can also vouch for reading this. Opening the application mid-Jan for an August start I think it said.

Thanks Progressive that really helps... I'll start the application process early then in switching my RN license once I have a job offer and I get closer to graduation. Appreciate it!

I often feel similar...10 years experience here. I am acutely aware of how proficient the CRNAs I am with and my deficits compared to them. I have about 90 intubations under my belt but I've missed a good share as well and every time I feel like an i...

Current student here, and I strongly concur with what Progressive says. That's extremely similar to how I study and I have maintained a 4.0 thus far...but I do read/skim our material as our profs usually throw in a couple questions from the reading a...

I'm just coming up on the halfway point in my 3 year program, and I'm wondering from those who are practicing/have groups, when is an appropriate time frame to reach out to groups I may be interested in. I have been keeping an eye on gaswork and have...

Yes you've got to get those grades up. Retake them at your community college. I had 4 C's in my sciences--chemistry, anatomy, physiology, org chemistry-- before I got to nursing school and got serious as well. I retook 2 of the classes, and got As wh...

I'll likely have 200k in loans when I graduate. While this is daunting, as a CRNA typically you have a big shovel to pay things off. As an RN I had 60k. I made 60k roughly, and I was able to pay this off in 10 years. This along with things like buy...

I guess the question is, do you want to be a CRNA or do you want to be FNP? If CRNA, it makes no sense to get FNP first. Getting FNP will likely take you out of the ICU, and a CRNA applicant needs current ICU (and no I haven't heard of a part time N...

To have the best shot at getting into CRNA school, recent ICU experience is going to be your best bet. The higher acuity the better. There are a couple schools that will consider ICU further back but they are few and far between, and you will defini...

The bigger name schools have a heftier price tag as well from what I've seen on here. Paying more money to fight for case time with residents just does not sound appealing to me. My school is around $85K. Duke is $136k. That's 50k more just in tuitio...

It'll depend on each person and other factors like credit, etc. I did grad plus for the first year but this year I got a better rate with Sallie Mae private lender--think it was a health professionals one. Get the best rate you can.... just get thr...

I have a resume, which I have tweaked over the years depending on what I job I have applied for and is about a page long, and I used that to apply to school as well. My understanding is that a CV is much more involved and lengthy than a resume, and i...