Wanting to return to CRNA school

Spurs_up, DNP, CRNA · Jul 21, 2020

When I interviewed for school they didn’t care that I had been doing travel nursing for a few years.

Defibn', RN, EMT-P · Jul 21, 2020

A lot of SRNAs come from night shift. It can be hard to get on day shift as a new nurse. Also, a lot of SRNAs also did some traveling to save up money. It all depends on the acuity of patients you cared for and how you can articulate your experience. If you have the type of travel experience where you get stuck with lower acuity patients about to be transferred out of the unit, then that would be a negative.

RNCP4868 · Sep 9, 2020

I asked this question at an open house because I wanted to do travel again to save money. The director of the program said “well.. I mean I’m not going to throw your application out.. I’ll look at it.. “
That was a competitive program but obviously I did not return to travel after that answer.

brookalyn, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2020

I applied to four schools, accepted to two and offered an interview at another. I was considering applying to a fifth, but they straight up told me they did not consider my current travel experience as "real ICU" experience. Even though I was taking care of very sick patients as a traveler and had other ICU experience at a Level 1 trauma center teaching hospital, but oh well. I didn't let that one school out of five stop me from traveling and paying off debt/saving money. A lot of schools like travel experience and understand the financial benefit it can have for future students.