Hi everyone! I am new to allnurses.com, so my apologies in advance if I've posted this topic elsewhere on the website. I submitted my application and all supporting documents at the beginning of the month to Texas Wesleyan's CRNA program for the entering class of 2017. Has anyone applied this cycle received an interview date or any feedback from the school? Thanks in advance!
I work in an area where RTs do everything as well, so I asked all the RTs I work with to explain the settings to me. I pretty much just studied the differences between Pressure control and volume control and settings like AC, PSV since these are the ones we primarily use. I studied SIMV as well since it always seems to come up. I also studied how PEEP works and affects FiO2 along with its side effects, and PaO2/FiO2 ratios. Youtube has a lot of good videos that elaborate on this.
Interviewed at Mobile site yesterday, went very well...no pressure, lots of clinical question which I didn't knew atleast 10-15%, just be honest and say I don't know the answer instead of digging urself a hole by guessing. Was interviewed by I think 8 people including 2 current SRNAs. Everyone was very humorous, joking around and lots of laughs, casual conversations with clinical questions thrown in randomly. I didn't realize I was in there for about an hour.
Long story short, got a call at 1700 yesterday from their clinical director that I have been accepted. Beyond excited!!!
ARMY_RN congratulations!!! mrsdearmas,BSN and ProgressiveThinking thanks for the info. I appreciate everyone's contribution to this forum. Had a good weekend all.
Congratulations to all accepted so far! I too had an interview at Arrowhead in Colton on Nov. 17th. I was notified the next day offering me a spot, and I accepted yesterday. I am from a mixed ICU background in the Kansas City metro area. Now to make the move to Southern California! Do you all have a very far commute?
The interview went exactly how the others stated. Just try not to be nervous, and ask questions that show you are very interested in what they have to offer. Good luck to the others!
Congrats cnstanley! I think I'm going to be living about an hour out. I'm hoping that won't be too far. I may have to find somewhere closer during phase 2.
I'm new to the blog here. Wondering what kind of stats you guys have that have gotten interviews to CRNA school? I'm working on building my application for next year
Sounds like you have good experience. Your GPA is the only thing that isn't great. If you get your CCRN and do really well on your GRE, it will help overshadow that. My GRE was 315 and I had a 4.0, but I didn't do the CCRN and I had the minimum experience time (ICU last February). I worked ER/Trauma before that starting in September. So I had 1 year total when I was accepted. Study for those and you'll do well I think. Also make sure your science GPA is good.
Is anyone taking the chem class that TWU offers this coming summer to satisfy the chemistry requirement? I was accepted to the Bismarck site, so if there are any others on this thread accepted there, I'd love to connect!
So I thought that their chem course was all I needed. I was informed that it will satisfy the requirement if you tool chem a long time ago and need to refresh. It is not a stand alone course. Kind of deceiving the way it is written on the site. I am taking intro to chem (inorganic) at Iowa Central Community College online. I'll do it as fast as I can and probably take their intro to biochem and organic chem combo course too. I'll start in January. Check it out. I may take the TWU course also after these just so I know what is expected of me during the program.
August is going to sneak up on us before we know it!
ProgressiveThinking, MSN, CRNA
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I work in an area where RTs do everything as well, so I asked all the RTs I work with to explain the settings to me. I pretty much just studied the differences between Pressure control and volume control and settings like AC, PSV since these are the ones we primarily use. I studied SIMV as well since it always seems to come up. I also studied how PEEP works and affects FiO2 along with its side effects, and PaO2/FiO2 ratios. Youtube has a lot of good videos that elaborate on this.