TIP: HOW TO STAND OUT AS A CRNA SCHOOL APPLICANT!!

Get ultrasound experience to stand out on CRNA applications. Join your hospital's IV therapy or PICC team to build hands-on skills that most applicants don't have. The speaker runs a CRNA Mentor Community Facebook group and offers free mentoring calls for applicants.
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So how can I stand out as an applicant for CRNA school? This is a question I get pretty frequently, and there are several different things that you can do, but I'm gonna touch on one topic today, and that is ultrasound. The more experience you, you can get with the ultrasound, if any, will serve you well while you're doing time in the ICU learning the foundation of your CRNA career. All right, sometimes that means working with, if you have an IV therapy team or a PICC team or being part of those teams. The more familiarized you can get with working an ultrasound probe, the better you're gonna be going into CRNA school. And for most people, this is something that I offer as a highlight in their resume. It's something that stands out because not everybody has ultrasound experience. And the way that anesthesia is going It is moving towards more and more ultrasound. There's a joke that, you know, there's a block for that. That means that there's more regional anesthesia that hospitals are employing and utilizing. And the more comfortable you can get with understanding the basics of the ultrasound while you're in the ICU, the better off you'll be. This is a question that was posed within my CRNA Mentor Community in regards to ultrasound experience. And this group, If you search CRNA Mentor Community on Facebook, it will come up. And this group is comprised of nursing students, ICU nurses, nurse anesthesia residents, and CRNAs alike. And everybody in that group is working together to help you achieve your dreams of becoming a nurse anesthetist. Alternatively, you could book a phone call with me. I talk to aspiring CRNAs every single day after work, and these calls are free, and they're just to help you navigate this journey to become a CRNA. Thank you. Hello.
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