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  1. ICU Residency Count As School Experience?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to slothgang19's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    If you honestly are a new nurse, and feel you have learned everything there is to learn to be a very strong CRNA candidate after 1 year of residency and half a year of working, than your ICU is just...

  2. Should I get accepted to a CRNA program?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to MEDRN89's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    What I find "fantasy" is that you do so poorly on easy, undergrad coursework, and yet you have a plan predicated on the fact that you will be getting a 4.0 in much tougher, upper division course work....

  3. CRNA, Anesthesiologist Relationships

    BigPappaCRNA replied to cristianomiguel's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Well, it is not fraudulent. That is one of the reasons the ASA felt it important and necessary to further define their job as "physician anesthesiologist" because they knew that "anesthesiologist" in...

  4. CRNA questions

    BigPappaCRNA replied to Brittnurse4's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    1. No. Your grades are what they are. It is highly unlikely that a program would accept you. 3.0 is the MINIMUM, but there are simply too many people who don't have bad grades, and who do not have...

  5. ARE THERE CRNA’S IN ITALY?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to vincenza scrima's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    There are no CRNAs in Italy. There may, MAY, be some form of higher functioning anesthesia technician in some form, but the role of CRNA as we have here in the US, is not replicated anywhere else. I...

  6. Dismissed from CRNA School

    BigPappaCRNA replied to HornedFrogSRNA2022's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Ya, just FYI, they have now also been kicked out of their anesthesia residency as

  7. Help meeeee

    BigPappaCRNA replied to Suppyoooo's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    As there will not be any Master's programs by the time you are ready to apply, you need to look elsewhere and develop a new plan. I urge you in the strongest terms possible, to not try to go to CRNA...

  8. Dismissed from CRNA School

    BigPappaCRNA replied to HornedFrogSRNA2022's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I would review the Univsersity policy on academic dismissal. They are required to follow that policy. Period. Your story as currently portrayed sounds fishy. Are you sure everything was done by...

  9. What are your schools doing about COVID and clinical?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to DreameRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I see zero reason for SRNAs to be in clinical right now. None. I am a clinical coordinator at a major univeristy hospital for 2 separate, unrelated programs, and both of their students have been...

  10. Planning for CRNA

    BigPappaCRNA replied to yjsheen's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It simply does not matter, even a little bit, where you get your BSN. Perhaps, the one caveat to this, is if you are considering a CRNA program that is housed in the same SON as your BSN program. I...

  11. Cancelled Shadow

    BigPappaCRNA replied to mph53953's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    That ICU sounds just fine. You just need experience, period. It matters little which ICU as long as it is the correct accuity. SICU is actually perfect, IMHO, as it gets a little bit of everything,...

  12. Boyfriend wants me to stay away

    BigPappaCRNA replied to LauRN3367's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Your BF sounds pretty reasonable to

  13. CRNA Mills?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to stevena9's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    By all means, please feel free to DM. One caveat, I only check in once or twice a week, so my reply to you may not be too

  14. CRNA Mills?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to stevena9's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Well, I will be speaking for the most part in very general terms, so don't post about all the exceptions. 1. Military schools are better than civilian schools. 2. Small schools are better than the...

  15. CRNA School Dismissal for B-

    BigPappaCRNA replied to CriticalRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Well there is an academic policy from the University that the program has to follow. If they did, there is nothing that you can do about it. If they did not, contact the COA and get them involved....

  16. NBCRNA and the AANA... WOW!

    BigPappaCRNA replied to ruler of kolob's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Ya, umm, no thank you. I don't think I want to trust my credential and my career to someone who first, revives a 7 year old thread, and second, does not know enough, or care enough, to proofread their...

  17. SRNA struggling with clinical

    BigPappaCRNA replied to JV2000's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Give yourself a break. If you knew you to do anesthesia already, you would not be in school. You have been in clinical for 2 days a week, for 2 months?!?! Chill out. Seriously. Take a deep breath...

  18. Keep getting rejected

    BigPappaCRNA replied to S3682's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Your post started out by saying, "you keep getting rejected." But if you only have one year of experience, you have only done one year of applications. That pretty much is telling you there is a...

  19. 5 Year Plan?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to kleeschr's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I have never heard of that question ever being asked. I have been involved with interview committees for two different programs, and that has never been brought up by committee or potential...

  20. ICU jobs

    BigPappaCRNA replied to lellomere's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Renown Hospital, Reno, Nevada. Amazing experience. County atmosphere in every sense of the word. Always hiring. Good

  21. Poss of Marijuana on background check?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to NeuroICUv1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Always, always, always be up front and honest about your past. Get ahead of it. Once data is "out there" it can be found, regardless of whether or not it was dealt with properly. If you are not...

  22. Will an Online BSN degree be accepted for CRNA programs?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to Nurse Titi's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Online...sure. Not a problem in and of itself. A degree from another country...not sure. Mostly because you will have to have graduated from a university that is regionally accredited (SACS, or...

  23. How are my chances?

    BigPappaCRNA replied to youngrn325's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    CRNA school is exponentially harder than anything you have done before, and the classes are exponentially harder than any you have yet taken. You need some objective self reflection. Why did you do...

  24. ICU experience for CRNA school

    BigPappaCRNA replied to Micu 2020's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You might very well go your entire anesthesia career without managing a balloon pump. The majority of hospitals out there don't even do hearts. Stay right where you are at, and spend one more year...

  25. Keiser (Wolford) CRNA 2019 Applicants

    BigPappaCRNA replied to CRNAdegSeeker's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    One of the primary reasons for the bad reputation in the past from Wolford, as that the school was not affiliated with a Regionally Accredited University. It was the last program in the country to do...