Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you saying a CRNA is easy, I think it's the definition of "hard" that's the issue here. Basic med school is also easy (I'm sure you can make it hard by being really ambitious). But the clinical stuff + the book learning/lectures are very time consuming and completely inflexible. "Intense" is the word OP used, and that's probably more accurate.

It's not that it takes super-smarts, it's that it takes turning your life over to the program for 2 years if you want to graduate. I don't even really believe OP is going to be able to continue working as an ICU nurse, but maybe she could pick up a shift here and there, and work them into her CRNA shifts. As we've all said, pregnancy and babies are less flexible about their needs.

But OP also thinks that she's going to do her CRNA program, graduate, and then have a baby who won't be "raised" by nannies or daycare. But will she or her husband be a stay-at-home parent? No, because OP is going to be a CRNA and her husband is going to be a law firm partner. (!!) OP has yet to explain how she's going to work full-time with her husband in a very demanding law firm job and NOT use nannies or daycare to help with childcare.

I fully believe a CRNA program is intense. I won't belittle OP's chosen profession. But OP seems to think that she can have a baby on her own timeline (and we all must know of at least one woman who attempted to conceive in her mid-30s and had difficulty) AND finish an intense program while her husband also works an intense job trying to make partner AND thinks after it's all done that she's going to be able to sail into working as a CRNA and yet magically not have her child in daycare or with a nanny. OP's visions are out of line with reality.

Oh, also, I know of more than one woman who completed a medical residency with one child (and one woman who had two). Surely OP's CRNA program is not more intense than a medical residency?

Anonymous wrote:For those of you saying a CRNA is easy, I think it's the definition of "hard" that's the issue here. Basic med school is also easy (I'm sure you can make it hard by being really ambitious). But the clinical stuff + the book learning/lectures are very time consuming and completely inflexible. "Intense" is the word OP used, and that's probably more accurate.

It's not that it takes super-smarts, it's that it takes turning your life over to the program for 2 years if you want to graduate. I don't even really believe OP is going to be able to continue working as an ICU nurse, but maybe she could pick up a shift here and there, and work them into her CRNA shifts. As we've all said, pregnancy and babies are less flexible about their needs.

Anonymous wrote:For those of you saying a CRNA is easy, I think it's the definition of "hard" that's the issue here. Basic med school is also easy (I'm sure you can make it hard by being really ambitious). But the clinical stuff + the book learning/lectures are very time consuming and completely inflexible. "Intense" is the word OP used, and that's probably more accurate.

It's not that it takes super-smarts, it's that it takes turning your life over to the program for 2 years if you want to graduate. I don't even really believe OP is going to be able to continue working as an ICU nurse, but maybe she could pick up a shift here and there, and work them into her CRNA shifts. As we've all said, pregnancy and babies are less flexible about their needs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I encourage you not to have a child right now. You will not be able to do both a CRNA and care for a young child. It doesn't matter how smart you are. The program takes dedication and all of your time. I have a friend who was kicked out of her CRNA program because she couldn't handle having a young baby and doing it. It's 24/7, and as a SNRA, you have very little time for anything but school. Don't plan on working because that will not happen either. This is a program, much like med school, that will make or break you. There is a high level of depression from anxiety, and even suicide in the program. If your husband doesn't support you, prepare for a divorce. You need to think long and hard about your decision. You will literally work 24/7 as a SRNA.

So SRNAs "literally" don't get to sleep?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I encourage you not to have a child right now. You will not be able to do both a CRNA and care for a young child. It doesn't matter how smart you are. The program takes dedication and all of your time. I have a friend who was kicked out of her CRNA program because she couldn't handle having a young baby and doing it. It's 24/7, and as a SNRA, you have very little time for anything but school. Don't plan on working because that will not happen either. This is a program, much like med school, that will make or break you. There is a high level of depression from anxiety, and even suicide in the program. If your husband doesn't support you, prepare for a divorce. You need to think long and hard about your decision. You will literally work 24/7 as a SRNA.

So SRNAs "literally" don't get to sleep?

Anonymous wrote:Op, I encourage you not to have a child right now. You will not be able to do both a CRNA and care for a young child. It doesn't matter how smart you are. The program takes dedication and all of your time. I have a friend who was kicked out of her CRNA program because she couldn't handle having a young baby and doing it. It's 24/7, and as a SNRA, you have very little time for anything but school. Don't plan on working because that will not happen either. This is a program, much like med school, that will make or break you. There is a high level of depression from anxiety, and even suicide in the program. If your husband doesn't support you, prepare for a divorce. You need to think long and hard about your decision. You will literally work 24/7 as a SRNA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my sister is an md phd, a CEO of a big hospital with hundreds of publications and i have never heard her speaking about her accomplishments the way OP speaks about hers (such as those are).

But she didn't do a CRNA program.

Anonymous wrote:my sister is an md phd, a CEO of a big hospital with hundreds of publications and i have never heard her speaking about her accomplishments the way OP speaks about hers (such as those are).

Anonymous wrote:my sister is an md phd, a CEO of a big hospital with hundreds of publications and i have never heard her speaking about her accomplishments the way OP speaks about hers (such as those are).

Anonymous wrote:my sister is an md phd, a CEO of a big hospital with hundreds of publications and i have never heard her speaking about her accomplishments the way OP speaks about hers (such as those are).