University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) CRNA Fall 2020

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This program just become fully accredited and started accepting applications yesterday (11/12). It will be based at UAMS in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Requirements

36 month DNP

BSN

Health Assessment

Statistics

3.0 or greater on last 60 hrs

2 years minimum RN, 1 year minimum ICU

BLS, ACLS, PALS

CCRN is highly recommended

Deadline is February 1st, 2020

Nothing has been posted about total tuition yet.

Anyone going to be applying? I've started working on my application already.

Specializes in SICU.
14 minutes ago, CowboyMedic said:

I'm guessing you were in the first 3 to go (9, 9:15, 9:30)? Mine isn't till 10 so I'm still waiting. I'm the guy from Tulsa ;)...

Yes I was first at 8:30. Good luck!! It’s nothing like what I studied for but that’s OK! Ava said we could be notified anywhere from a few days to 4 weeks regarding acceptance. Then the program director said this will be the only round of interviews between today and tomorrow.
15 minutes goes so fast.

Specializes in ICU.
32 minutes ago, PRNcoffee said:

Yes I was first at 8:30. Good luck!! It’s nothing like what I studied for but that’s OK! Ava said we could be notified anywhere from a few days to 4 weeks regarding acceptance. Then the program director said this will be the only round of interviews between today and tomorrow.
15 minutes goes so fast.

Someone else posted that they were conducting more interviews after these two days. So today and tomorrow are the only sets of interviews in general?

Specializes in SRNA.
10 minutes ago, gasmonkey27 said:

Someone else posted that they were conducting more interviews after these two days. So today and tomorrow are the only sets of interviews in general?

Yeah it’s only today and tomorrow. There’s a total of 50-60 applicants interviewing. Best of luck everyone. Times flies in there.

Specializes in CRNA.

The interview was very fast. I just got done. Mostly behavioral questions. Good luck everyone.

Specializes in Trauma ICU.
1 hour ago, CHF24 said:

Yeah it’s only today and tomorrow. There’s a total of 50-60 applicants interviewing. Best of luck everyone. Times flies in there.

Seems as if this is the first and only interviews that will be held.

Specializes in Icu.

I called last week and was told they will interview more by the end of March. I called and asked because They havent even responded to my app and mine is VERY competetive so I hope I was told the truth. Praying for everyone interviewing this week tho

Specializes in Trauma ICU.
43 minutes ago, EricaC said:

I called last week and was told they will interview more by the end of March. I called and asked because They havent even responded to my app and mine is VERY competetive so I hope I was told the truth. Praying for everyone interviewing this week tho

I was told the same thing and my app is also very competitive! I was sure I would get an interview at minimal! Not sure how they are picking applications.

Specializes in SICU.
1 hour ago, EricaC said:

I called last week and was told they will interview more by the end of March. I called and asked because They havent even responded to my app and mine is VERY competetive so I hope I was told the truth. Praying for everyone interviewing this week tho

I asked at the end of my interview if we could expect having to do callback interviews and multiple rounds. And the Director said no, all we have is today and tomorrow.
Now maybe she didn’t want to address the possibility of other interviews for a certain reason to me. It’s very possible.

Specializes in CRNA.

Just got back to Tulsa. Long drive to think about everything I said or could have said during the interview. The interviews got backed up; I was supposed to interview at 10 but didn't interview until almost noon. They let someone interview right before me that was supposed to interview at 1045 so they could make it back to Dallas to work tonight. I didn't mind though.

The interview panel was really nice and the director asked most of the questions. I got a couple of questions that I had never been asked before. They kept me on my toes but not too badly.

I hope everyone interviews well tomorrow and we hear from them very quickly. Acceptance will be notified through GUS.

If y'all don't mind sharing, more or less what were some of the questions asked? Were there any clinical?

Specializes in CRNA.
5 minutes ago, Bigbeliever said:

If y'all don't mind sharing, more or less what were some of the questions asked? Were there any clinical?

I didn't get a single clinical-based question. It was mostly behavioral style questions for me. Why do you want to be a CRNA, how do you handle conflict, etc. They did ask me a few questions to clarify some things that were on my resume that they had concerns about (my first school that I withdrew from and had a poor GPA from).

Specializes in SICU.

You’re basically asking us to help our competition. I think others have shared more than enough, and I would encourage the others to minimize what they share until decisions are made for this reason.
Good luck tomorrow.

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