New Academic Year Thoughts

The academic year is well underway and thoughts now turn to the candidates that will be filing applications for graduate nurse anesthetists programs.  For those that are thinking about or are applying this year here are a few tips from someone fresh in the mix. Dear David, Words cannot express the gratitude that I have for the invaluable shadow experience you presented me and all the words of encouragement you provided me.  Forgive my redundancy, but thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you some more.  My journey to become a CRNA started when I was just in my third semester of nursing school.  During my clinical as a nursing student in the OR I approached a CRNA and his SRNA apprentice.  I asked them “What do I need to do to be a CRNA?”  To my surprise they kindly offered me their contact information and an opportunity to shadow if I was interested enough.  From that day forward the “fire in my belly,” as you put it, was lit.  I dedicated myself to pull the best grades possible, get acute care experience and do anything I could to build towards getting accepted into the CRNA program at USC. Flash forward three years later and I am there standing at the entrance of the clinic tower waiting for a chance to experience first hand what it is to be a CRNA.  I was greeted by a staff CRNA who brought me up the OR elevator and escorted me straight to the pre-op holding area where you were working up your first case of the day.  We went over the goals...
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