RealNurse419

RealNurse419

Intensive Care (SICU, NICU, CICU, VICU)

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  1. Allegheny Valley Hospital School of Anesthesia interview

    RealNurse419 posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Hi all, Has anyone ever interviewed at Allagheny Valley in Pittsburgh before? Or is anyone interviewing soon? I searched the archives and found some old stuff, but I was hoping someone has...

  2. Flight Nursing transition to CRNA

    RealNurse419 replied to flymedicRN24's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

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

  3. I need some advice.

    RealNurse419 replied to aschultz7's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  4. SRNA & Preop Days?

    RealNurse419 replied to SRNAlife's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  5. Before going to CRNA school

    RealNurse419 replied to edvaz90's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  6. Do I stand a chance at....

    RealNurse419 replied to CNRAHopeful's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

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

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

    RealNurse419 replied to TBLV4's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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

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

    RealNurse419 replied to lulu523's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  9. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

    RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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,...

  10. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

    RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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

  11. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

    RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

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

    RealNurse419 replied to dressagerdr's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  13. Value of acceptance to a nondoctorate crna program

    RealNurse419 replied to Blueskies149's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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

  14. Single parent SRNA?

    RealNurse419 replied to Robbinaj's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  15. Case Western Reserve University Fall 2012

    RealNurse419 replied to RealNurse419's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

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

  16. Case Western Reserve University Fall 2012

    RealNurse419 posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Hi, Just trying to find other classmates that will be starting in the Fall at Case

  17. Pre-CRNA student: Anesthesia Tech?

    RealNurse419 replied to blongor's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  18. Case/CCF 2012 Interview forum

    RealNurse419 replied to statABG's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    They are still conducting

  19. Online graduate-level pharm, phys, patho classes

    RealNurse419 replied to hiddencatRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I took advanced patho and pharm at Liberty. Loved the 8 week option

  20. Online graduate-level pharm, phys, patho classes

    RealNurse419 replied to hiddencatRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Try Liberty

  21. Case/CCF 2012 Interview forum

    RealNurse419 replied to statABG's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Congrats! I don't know much about CCF because I don't have clinical there. Sorry I couldn't be of any help with that, but send me a pm with your email and I'll send you mine if you have any more...

  22. Case/CCF 2012 Interview forum

    RealNurse419 replied to statABG's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    RNdreams09 are you in for Fall 2013 too? They don't give you that option until around the spring time. School is going good so far. It's tough, but it's doable. You should be nervous, very nervous...

  23. Case/CCF 2012 Interview forum

    RealNurse419 replied to statABG's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    They give you the option of rating clinical sites 1-3 (1 being the site you want the most). But pretty much everyone in my class wanted to be at CCF for clinical, so I think they went by our...

  24. Wesleyan Crna interview math test

    RealNurse419 replied to BOOSTISADRUG's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm not sure, but you would probably be safe knowing how to calculate gtts. For example mcg/kg/min, mcg/min, mg/hr. And if they give you mc/kg/min know how many ml/hr it's going at etc. Also how to...

  25. Case/CCF 2012 Interview forum

    RealNurse419 replied to statABG's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Yay!! Congrats! That's