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I am hoping to become a successful nurse anesthesist (CRNA) in the U.S in the future. I'm currently in the UK studying for my Alevels and want to know the best route in this career.

Its very confusing because I know that you need to be a Registered Nurse at first to be on the route of becoming a CRNA, however, in the UK the registration for nurses is NMC ?

Please I need some clarification and advice on how to get to where I want to be. This is really important as I am completing my personal statement in a couple months

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

In the UK nurse training is paid for by the government (well at present it is) and currently for most nurses that train now and in the last decade do not meet US requirements to be a RN. In the US nurse training is expensive and more so as a International student. The issue is finding employer willing to go the immigrant/work route.

If I remember reading rightly most CRNA applicants are required to have RN experience

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Okay thanks , so then it's slightly impossible for me to be a CRNA? Unless I study to be an RN in the US

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I would say difficult opposed to slightly impossible. If your heart really wants to go the CRNA route then you need to look and reaseach all options from training to job opportunities and plan your route

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It will be a very long term commitment. If you can afford to go the US and study there that would be the easiest and best option. If you study here first, you work as a RN under the NMC while trying to get a visa and fill their requirements for becoming a RN - which I think are working in all area's of nursing as their nurses are general nurses and we're branch nurses. Then you need to work as a surgery or anaesthetic nurse while getting further qualifications in this subject area and then working towards being a CRNA. I don't think it's particularly easy to be a CRNA for an American nurse, and it's a lot harder for an international nurse, but if its what you want to do then go for it.

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