CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

A minimum of one year full-time work experience, or its part-time equivalent, as a RN in an adult critical care setting.

Best critical care areas to work in to be accepted into CRNA school

• MICU (Medical Intensive Care Unit)

• CICU (Cardiac ICU)

• SICU (Surgical ICU)

• Cardiothoracic surgery ICU

• Neuro ICU

• CCU (Coronary Care Unit)

• TICU (Trauma ICU)

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These types of experience are great at supporting experience, but may or may not work as your primary experience:

• PICU (Pediatric ICU)

• NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit)

• ER (Emergency Room) experience from a Level One Trauma Center

• Burn Unit

Experience in these units is almost never accepted as meeting the one year requirement of nurse anesthetist schools:

• OR (Operating Room)

• PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit)

• Cardiac Step-down

• Telemetry Unit

• ER (Emergency Room)

• Obstetrics​

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**Consideration of critical care experience will be considered on an individual basis by the CRNA program