RealNurse419

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 interviewed recently. I interview in December.

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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.

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...

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 ...

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

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'...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

They are still conducting interviews

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

Try Liberty University

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 questions! Enjoy this last year of freedom!

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 lol. Just kidding, you can do it if you're dedicated.

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 experience and put us at the place that was most similar to...

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 dilute drugs. Ex diluting something in a 10 cc syrin...

Yay!! Congrats! That's awesome!