Starting to consider going for CRNA

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Specializes in ICU.

When I started nursing school I started with the purpose of being L&D. I soon realized almost no one is able to go directly into that field. After a year of general medicine I happen to fall into ICU. Now after a few years and hearing so many people going for it, it is starting to make me think about it. My question to any CRNA's out there is, do you miss being bedside? Do you miss the working with the really sick ones going down and being able to make them better? Part of me feels like it is just a little too much of a persons life in my hands, but before I started ICU I felt that same way about the unit. Just kind of putting my feelers out to see if it is something I want to think about pursuing or not. Thanks for any thoughts.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

moved thread to pre CRNA for best response

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Specializes in Neurosurgical ICU.
Do you miss the working with the really sick ones going down and being able to make them better?

You do this with virtually every general anesthetic you administer. Trust me, you'll see the sickest of the sick in anesthesia. So if that's what you really like, you'll enjoy it. You do get time, especially preoperative, to address you patient's concerns and assuage their fears. That pretty much gets me my nursing fix. Shadow a CRNA and see if it's for you.

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How do you get the privilege to take pre req in texas women before nursing school?

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