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I am going to clinical twice a week during this semester. Sometimes, I meet instructors or senior students who demend pretty excessively on the overall performance. I try to accept all the advices that they give to me, because most of them make me sense for the educational developments to be successful as a SRNA. In someway, It gives me too much stresses which makes me feel unhappy about what I am doing. This is the last semester of didactic section. 4-7th semesters will be all full time clinicals. maybe I will get used to this environments someday in the future. If there are somebody who been through this earlier than me, please give me some advces how I can be successful and become less stressful in the clinical for the rest of school period. I know and feel that CRNA school is not easy to go through,But I am trying to think any good things that can motivate me at least. any coments will be appreciated. thanks:idea:

My program started a little more than a month ago. first 1 and half weeks was like a getting know each other people wise, taking classes. after that, work load and amount of study in human anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, and physics and chemistry r/t anesthesia been drowing me til today after three big exams during last a few weeks. I feel like I been through a BIG jungle for digesting all these info. I am also taking a research class. Before I started school, I guessed the school would be demanding and very tough but I did not feel it literally at the time. After one and half month, most of time I studied more than 10 hours a day, sometimes I lived in the library from the moring to the close time. I passed majot huddles so far I am survived . But thinking about next 27 months ? gosh, there was no way I could finish the study just a few days before the big test, I had to digest a lillte by little everyday, still a lot of works to do. for the CRNAs or soon to be graduate, I respect your guys. Now I can understand a little bit about the nature of this CRNA school. just my ventilation. I am so tired. got to go to bed. :uhoh21:

Guys. I am looking for housing or apartments information around Naples area. I am thinking about traveling down there around beginning of January to find a place to live. Any information will be appreciated. :nuke:

Hey people. I found I been accepted to Wolford college for Feb 2007 class. I am so excited about this. and I am so happy. Thanks to users of this site. This site has been so helpful to me finding out what I need to know.:wink2:

a friend of mine been accepted. found friday evening.

Hope you will get in. The director said the offers can happen til late April. Who knows!:) . real good thing can happen. Good luck. Does letter say what ranking are you in? just curious. jin 00005

I received a email that I was not selected for the anesthesia school. when I was asking to the school director, she mentioned about "experience" because I have total 11 monthes experience total which much less experience than accepted students. The director did not tell me about low grade or GPA. My unit is 9 units of CCU/ 16 beds of ICU. 377 beds hospital community based . a few cases of hearts per week. a few swans and baloon pumps per week. these are usually assigend to more esperienced nurses. I am feeling not getting enough experiences about PA catheter and baloon pumps. because the questions from director were primary about SWANs and baloon pumps and vasoactive drips. I ANSWERED correctly to those questions. my GPA is 3.13 nursing school total. last 60 hours is around 3.4. BLS, ACLS,PALS, CCRN. are my credentials. a lot of science courses due to former major MIcrobiology. I am going to another interview on this friday, but I am very concerned about getting same feedback " not enough experience". I am pretty sure this unit can not give me good enough experience even though they are nice people and it is nice plce to work. should I start searching better acuity unit to get a better experience?

I applied three schools. 1. New britain- finished interview and waiting fir the final letter or decision. 2. UNIV of Kansas, going to interview on Dec, 03. next month. preparing for the interview as much as I can. 3. Minneapolis school of Anesthesia- still processing my application, due end of November. hopely waiting for any message. this will be a long winter for waiting for nothing . somebody pray for me. I just want to get it over. I did not know the process would be so long and not easy like this.

I am waiting for the final result of interview ( application) for NA school. I can't be relaxed, even can't prepare on next school interview? Give me some idea how I can relax my self. Please. I check my mail box everyday like a kid seraching food in a refrigerator. sometimes I just want to get it over whether I make it or not. This waiting time is killing me? give me some advice. Thanks.

I took a CCRN a few days ago. I could not make it, my score was a few points below of passing scores which made me so mad. :angryfire I have a scheduled interview in a few days. which is better idea? showing them my score and tell it was so close and I tried. or pretending I did not take it at all. know the CCRN is big credential in admission process. what do you think? Please help me and give me some idea.

The schools that I applied do not require GRE. I need to be certified on CCRN and prepare for GRE. also building up one or more years of experience will make me more competitive hopefully. There are a couple of things that I need to be ready before applying to schools. Even in my unit, many nurses think about this career. But I have been seeing only a few accepted nurses. Not easy way. but somedays I will get there. please God be with me.

thanks people.

thank you for your nice reply. Are you a SRNA? Are you in the school? I called to one of anesthesia schools to ask about whether I can apply just with 8 months of experience CCU/ICU. One guy (= assistant director) was not recommending for this year. But when I was talking to a program director, I was told " go head submit the application and see what happen". I am not quite positive about year. Like she told me I just want to see what is going to happen. I almost finished my application file. This applications process makes me so nervous in every moment. Tell me how can I relax and not worry about too much about this application process? Were you about same feeling ? If you had interviews, I want to know how was it like? stressful,,, or nightmare. give me some idea how can I prepare well in case I get an invitation for interview. Thank you.

I am new visitor. Staff nurse in CCU/ICU of community hospital. currently thinking about going to CRNA school. I read enough information about how difficult it is to get in. I am ready to start the long and hard journey of this career. Been eight monthes since I started CCU/ICU. already submitted applications to several school that do not require one year experience of 1 year before submitting applications. want to experience in advance what will be the hard and difficult feeling like. :wink2: