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Believe me, I am flipping out just a little bit myself. I went in to this program fully anticipating the work and the stress. I have no problem paying my dues. That is one reason I am asking the questions of what is reasonable. The class before me started their clinicals in August. I think the minimum to graduate is 650 cases. They are not slated to graduate until Dec 2005. If they continue at their present rate, they will have met their minimum case load by the end of Feb. 650 cases in 6 months!!!! A typical day kind of goes like this. You got to be at the hospital early, depending on the time the case starts and the complexity. If you have a 7 am start time, you best be there no later than 5 am to set the room up. 6 am you meet with the rest of your colleagues and listen to what ever lecture was put together. It rotates. Your turn comes up about one a week. Somewhere in there you have to meet and preop your patient. Your day at the hospital ends somewhere between 4 pm and 8 pm. Then, you go home, do all your care plans and prep for the next day and discuss your plan of action the evening before with your preceptor. You still have classroom hours, lecture and tests to worry about as well. In addition, there is journal club where you present some evidence based practice to your peers, classmates, Drs, and CRNA's. This is done about once a month at a dinner somewhere. Students are trying to function on about 4 hours sleep a day, (if they are lucky) I would like to know myself if this is norm for other crna programs out there. There is already legislation out there limiting the number of hours residents and interns can put in in one day, I think it should apply to crna students as well. Its unsafe. I would appreciate any feed back from other CRNAs regarding this intensity.

What is considered "reasonable" in regards to the number of hours a srna should be demanded to put in during their clinical rotations. are 12-14 hours days normal. That is just the hours in the OR I am referring to. There is still another ungodly amount of hours to put in prepping for the next day, prepping for journal club, prepping for presentations as well as studying for tests. I knew that CRNA school was not going to be cake, but 20 hour days for the next 18 months seems a little excessive. Just curious what other program clinical expectations were like.