RealNurse419

RealNurse419 has 6 years experience and specializes in Intensive Care (SICU, NICU, CICU, VICU).

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1. Flight Nursing transition to CRNA

   RealNurse419 replied to flymedicRN24's topic in SRNA

   A lot of schools will require recent ICU experience. Like you said, your best bet would be to contact the school

2. I need some advice.

   RealNurse419 replied to aschultz7's topic in SRNA

   I would recommend you researching the schools you're planning on applying to and make sure they will accept PICU experience if you were to go that route. Some schools don't accept pediatric ICU because it's so specialized. I would opt for the Cardiac...

3. SRNA & Preop Days?

   RealNurse419 replied to SRNAlife's topic in SRNA

   In my program, at my main clinical site, we pre-oped all of our patients. At another clinical site, we pre-oped ~1/week. I still graduated with over 1000 cases. It's something that is extremely important and something you should get comfortable with....

4. Before going to CRNA school

   RealNurse419 replied to edvaz90's topic in SRNA

   The purpose of the ICU experience is for you to develop the critical thinking skills that will help in anesthesia school. In other words, managing critical patients, drips, lines, etc. Those are the experiences that aren't necessarily gained in an ER...

5. Do I stand a chance at....

   RealNurse419 replied to CNRAHopeful's topic in SRNA

   Your best bet would be to call those schools and tell them your stats.

6. Tired of searching for online advanced pathophysiology/advanced pharmacology course!?

   RealNurse419 replied to TBLV4's topic in SRNA

   Before I applied to anesthesia school, I took advanced patho and pharm with Liberty University online. The classes are 8 weeks long I believe. Pretty good courses too.

7. Wanting to apply to CRNA school, but torn between jobs, please help!!

   RealNurse419 replied to lulu523's topic in SRNA

   I would suggest talking to the schools you are applying to. I didn't have any experience with hearts and was accepted into school. But I was rejected by another because I lacked that experience. I would say if the MICU position is in a faster paced h...

8. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

   RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in SRNA

   If you or anyone thinks that's a smart comment, I would suggest growing thicker skin. It was a straight forward opinion. It wasn't rude, it just wasn't filled with bubbly words. As previously stated, I said that because the OP stated that he/she had ...

9. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

   RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in SRNA

   And I said "research would have been beneficial" because if one had a true concern about this, it would have been better to figure this out before applying

10. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

    RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in SRNA

    CRNA schools aren't even required to become doctorate programs until 2025. So again, a little research would prove that in 5-10 years, CRNAs with masters degrees will not be passed over for a new graduate with a DNP. At this present time, there aren'...

11. Admitted! Now how do I pay for it?

    RealNurse419 replied to dressagerdr's topic in SRNA

    I did the "no interest" credit cards for unexpected expenses. I'm a single mother, started school with no debt. I lived off of student loans and things worked out for me pretty good. I agree with Mully, you'll learn to live pretty frugally while in s...

12. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

    RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in SRNA

    I think you should have done more research on the profession before applying. If you had done so, you would know that having a doctorate vs a masters doesn't really matter when trying to find a job.

13. Single parent SRNA?

    RealNurse419 replied to Robbinaj's topic in SRNA

    Hi Robbinaj, I am a single parent and in my senior year of anesthesia school. Having a plan is great. I have a really strong support system, which has helped me succeed in school. However, it still gets extremely stressful. Especially if you are the...

14. Case Western Reserve University Fall 2012

    RealNurse419 replied to RealNurse419's topic in SRNA

    It starts with doing research to find out what you need to do to get in…..

15. Pre-CRNA student: Anesthesia Tech?

    RealNurse419 replied to blongor's topic in SRNA

    I agree with the above post. The anesthesia techs in the OR where I have clinical at aren't hands on with patients. All they do is turn rooms over (clean the rooms/change the anesthesia circuits between cases). Your best bet would be to get into an I...