South College CRNA 2023

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Anyone heard anything about interviews yet?!

Thank you for starting this thread, I have been curious about this as well! Also would love to hear your experience with clinicals. Do you feel like that you are getting sufficient experience to feel confident in your practice? If anyone can speak to the atl location, that would be even better. Thank you!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

How does she feel about learning? Does her professors truly teach the material or does she feel like she has to teach herself and only minimal learning from the professors?

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Specializes in CVICU.

Hey! Just started the program Jan 2nd this year but so far I feel like our professors want us to succeed and will do whatever it takes to get us there! Our anatomy prof gave us his cell number 2 weeks before class started and during the first week said he was sad none of us had texted him any questions yet! Online classes seem to be running smoothly from what I can tell and I have no complaints! Both the director and program director are great and they will do whatever is necessary to help us succeed!

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Specializes in SICU.
CVICU nurse22 said:

Hey! Just started the program Jan 2nd this year but so far I feel like our professors want us to succeed and will do whatever it takes to get us there! Our anatomy prof gave us his cell number 2 weeks before class started and during the first week said he was sad none of us had texted him any questions yet! Online classes seem to be running smoothly from what I can tell and I have no complaints! Both the director and program director are great and they will do whatever is necessary to help us succeed!

The chief CRNA at my facility I work at suggested that I apply to this program. He told me that it was a hybrid intergrated approach in that didactic s were online and that we would only be on campus for skills/lab. Is this true? I wanted to apply to this program because the facility I work has an awesome culture for anesthesia care and it's going to be a clinical site for South College. There really isn't rift between CRNAs and MDA's and the CRNA's do everything from general cases to blocks, to obstetrics. So it would be awesome to do clinicals where I work at currently. Planning on putting an application in. 

How's your experience been with this program? 

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Specializes in ICU.
Joefilipino said:

The chief CRNA at my facility I work at suggested that I apply to this program. He told me that it was a hybrid intergrated approach in that didactic s were online and that we would only be on campus for skills/lab. Is this true? I wanted to apply to this program because the facility I work has an awesome culture for anesthesia care and it's going to be a clinical site for South College. There really isn't rift between CRNAs and MDA's and the CRNA's do everything from general cases to blocks, to obstetrics. So it would be awesome to do clinicals where I work at currently. Planning on putting an application in. 

How's your experience been with this program? 

so far it's chill, everyone is doing great. attrition rate is low, teachers are nice. classes are manageable 

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Specializes in SICU.
airpodwhisperer said:

so far it's chill, everyone is doing great. attrition rate is low, teachers are nice. classes are manageable 

Sis you have to move to Knoxville? Or is it truly a online hybrid program?

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Specializes in ICU.
Joefilipino said:

Sis you have to move to Knoxville? Or is it truly a online hybrid program?

the first 1.25 years is online. the last 1.75 years you're at your clinical site. I'm in california right now working per diem while finishing up the quarter, and we have live classes on zoom through the week like Tuesday-Thursday. only time u go to knoxville is for orientation week and intensives where they teach u how to intubate and do nerve blocks and practice anesthesia case simulations. 

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That's awesome! Did you feel like the 1 week intensives were enough to make you feel confident in clinicals? Is it difficult to learn online or would you say it has been okay? 

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Specializes in ICU.
skimmy290 said:

That's awesome! Did you feel like the 1 week intensives were enough to make you feel confident in clinicals? Is it difficult to learn online or would you say it has been okay? 

it's just like practicing intubating in ACLS or PALS. you get the general idea but nothing really beats a real human being.

 

learning online is no different than learning in person. the only drawback is that your classmates are thousands of miles away so instead of being able to all just meet up at your school's library or something and study and find solutions together you have try and coordinate with peoples outside life schedules and hold group facetime study groups. it has the same effect sure but its not as "personal" you know? its a lot of self studying and self motivating. surprisingly enough the content isn't that hard. getting the MOTIVATION to read through everything has been a lot of peoples roadblocks here. and it sounds counterintuitive because "how can you not be motivated to get through something that you've spent years working towards??” I'll explain it this way:

its like a mixture of a false sense of confidence and mental fatigue. you study extra hard the first week so you think you know it, then the next week because you think you know it, you feel less inclined to study again because your brain is fatigued from all that intense studying you did last week. so you kinda taper off each progressing week until the test weekend comes then you do a major cram to jolt yourself back again. it's all mental LOL. weird experience. I got straight As so far so that's just my perspective. 

so to answer your question: it's been okay

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Wow thank you for that very detailed response!! Congrats on making straight As so far, that's amazing! I will be starting in 2024 so I'm just trying to figure out how to best prepare myself! 

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Specializes in ICU.
skimmy290 said:

Wow thank you for that very detailed response!! Congrats on making straight As so far, that's amazing! I will be starting in 2024 so I'm just trying to figure out how to best prepare myself! 

did you get accepted already? go to the website and look at the curriculum schedule. first quarter is biostats and pathophysiology. if you have time and extra cash I'd suggest brushing up on pathophysiology. you can take a course or self-study. It's mainly physiology first. things like action potentials and neuromuscular junctions. then you go into organ systems and their associated diseases. 

 

some sources I recommend are: CSPA CRNA bootcamp membership. APEX membership, getting some advanced medical physiology books like guyton and hall, SHADOWING; shadowing is so crucial to really contextualizing everything. ask your CRNA everything from start to finish. 

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Yes! I got admitted last year with a deferred admission for 2024 because my preferred clinical location wasn't available for 2023. Wow those are all very helpful

tips, I will definitely look into that! 

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