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@JKRenee, during the program you are asked for your top 3 choices for clinical placement. Most people with end up with their top choice, a handful with their 2nd choice, and I have not heard of anyone ending up with their 3rd choice. You can choose to stay one place for your entire clinical experience or move to different places every semester if there are spots open. The only caveat to staying in one place is if that clinical site doesn't offer a specialty that you need to complete your clinical numbers (I.e. OB or peds), then you may be expected to go to a different clinical location for a semester in order to aquire those numbers.

@Logan Newberry, Last year they sent out email interview invitations a couple days before the deadline up to a week after the dealine. I think they may also send out more emails if people decline the interview but I'm not positive about how that works. Interviews last year were at the end of January and first week of February.

Magoosh is what I used and I thought it was great. It has lessons to help brush up on math/verbal topics and lots of practice questions. If I can remember correctly, they also have a separate app with all the vocabulary. I personally studied non-stop for 2 months and mainly focused on the quanitative section and got a 161. I spent little time studying for the verbal section and got a 155. I say this, because retrospectively I wish I would have spent an extra month (as in 3 or more) in order to studying up on the vocabulary more. The whole test is extremely difficult, but magoosh definitely seemed to help immensely. Good luck!

Please don't be discouraged, you are already taking the right steps to get yourself on track. My first suggestion to take some additional classes such as organic chem and physics if you haven't already to help boost your GPA a little bit more. These classes are required by many schools, but not required by all. Second, study your butt off for the GRE for at least a few months, but more like six. For some schools, a high GRE score can help offset your GPA. Next, spend another year or so just learning all you can in your ICU, additional experience is definitely a plus. If the majority of applicants are just making the minimum 1-2 years of experience, it looks good to have >3 years of experience. Lastly, cast your net wide in the schools that you apply to and don't be discouraged by rejection letters, it's bound to happen. Also if you haven't checked out this thread, go ahead and take a look. You may find some additional tips and encouragement from someone else who was in your position and was accepted Good luck!

Typically CRNA programs look for experience in traditional ICUs such as CVICU, MICU, and SICU. I would think some of these programs would consider burn ICU but I’m not sure since it is so specialized. If you are wanting to work in a burn unit, you may want to transfer to a traditional icu after a year to cover all your bases. Good luck

If your GPA will be 3.4-3.5 after you finish your BSN, I wouldn’t worry too much about taking any graduate level classes. You just need to focus on studying for the GRE and nailing that exam. I studied for 2 months for the GRE using magoosh, which was a great resource. Although, I would suggest starting earlier, maybe 4-6 months, which would give you time to study the extensive list of vocabulary words. Also, when you are looking into which schools to apply, make sure you have any pre-req classes that they require (organic chem, biochemistry, physics, etc) but your gpa alone is pretty good if you don’t have to take these classes. Interview committees may or may not ask about your transcript so be prepared to explain it, but it sounds like you have a very reasonable explanation.

I'm not sure if I'm answering what you are asking but I'll give it a go. Normally when you are priming a set for the first time, you have all your fluids hooked up to the corresponding lines (PBP, dialysate, post replacement), then you have the access line (red, which is also temporarily Y-ed with the effluent line) connected to to the priming solution, and the return line (blue) hook up to the effluent bag. When the priming has completed, the machine will go through the testing, then tell you to connect the red and blue line to the patient's HD catheter, and hook up the effluent line to the effluent bag. Hope that helps

Accepted with BSN gpa 3.81, overall gpa 3.82. GRE 316. 5 years nursing experience, 3 years ICU. CCRN certified.

Congratulations!!!

Congrats!!! I have been accepted as well! Excitement is a major understatement! ???

Yeah, luckily it’s a short wait. But it already feels like it’s too long! ?

The SRNAs told me that they will call on Friday if accepted, and email if not accepted. Prayin for a phone call over here ?

I counted the same. It looks like there is still 3 open spots.

Chemistry can be extremely difficult to understand if you dont have the right teacher. Taking is online could be a gamble, so you should try to look the teacher up on the rate my professor website. If people are saying the class is easy, go for it. Otherwise, see if you can take chem in the summer so that you can focus on one difficult science class at a time

Awesome and good luck! I've never taken trig, but I heard its kinda hard. Statistics should be a piece of cake. I'm going to give you a piece of advice for your anatomy classes: get Atlas of Anatomy by Thieme (50$ on amazon) it was save your life when studying for your lab classes and it's a great book for anyone in a medical related field