Reading all your post gives me a road map. I am preparing for TEAS right now and hoping to ASN by the end of next year. The only hitch is that I am 47 years old and want to do CRNA. I keep telling myself age is not a hitch. I could not go to school because I had to send my kids to school, now they are all done and it is my turn. i am trying to shawdow a nurse but have not been able to do so. I am thinking of trying to volunteer at a hospital so as to get my foot in. I plan and will try to apply for ICU straight out of school and then after 3 months apply for CRNA . Can you please let me know if that is a good idea. thanks