UMDNJ School of Nursing admitted its first Nurse Anesthesia class in 2004.
UMDNJ CRNA School
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Nursing/University Hospital Nurse Anesthesia Program 65 Bergen Street Suite 1122 Newark, NJ 07101
Contact Information Clare F Golden, DNP, APN, CRNA, Program Director Thomas Pallaria, CRNA, MS, Assistant Director ph: (973) 972-2513 fax: (973) 972-8950 email: goldencf@umdnj.edu
Quick Facts
CRNA Degree (s) offered Master of Science in Nursing
Program Length 28 months, full time
Credit Hours 72 semester credits
Starting Month(s) August
Application Deadline December 1st. It’s best to submit your application in early Fall, and be sure to attend their annual information session in the Spring.
Interviews are held in January and they make their student selections in early February.
Please note that tuition is calculated at the current 2008 rate. Tuition at most schools increases each academic year. Over the duration of the program, expect to pay a tuition that is slightly higher than what is shown here.
Cost of In State Tuition: $40,608 Fees and expenses: $6,000 Grand Total: $46,608
Cost of Out of State Tuition: $58,608 Fees and expenses: $6,000 Grand Total: $64,608
This cost does not include mandatory Health Care Insurance (currently available to students at $2065 per year).
Are you concerned that UMDNJ School of Nursing’s Nurse Anesthesia Program won’t give you the specific experiences or training you need to be a successful CRNA? Learn what standards CRNA Programs must meet in order to be accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia (COA).
This CRNA program (as well as all others that are accredited by the COA) prepares you to take the CCNA certification exam at the conclusion of the program, allowing you to become a CRNA.
Because the program is integrated, the clinical experience begins in the second semester with one eight hour day. This serves as an introduction to clinical anesthesia. The student is able to integrate didactic knowledge with clinical application.
During semester III the amount of clinical time increases to 12-16 hours per week. During semesters IV through VII the students are scheduled for full-time clinical experience averaging 36 - 40 hours per week, along with didactic courses.
Total clinical experience is approximately 2,500 hours, spent at 13 approved clinical sites in New Jersey and New York. The primary clinical site is University Hospital in Newark.
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CRNA Program Requirements
Required Bachelor Degree Baccalaureate degree in nursing from a nationally accredited program. Applicants who have a non-nursing baccalaureate degree may be conditionally accepted into an MSN track but must complete the Transition course (3 units) before full matriculation into the specialty.
RN: You must submit a valid RN license with your application. However it need not be from New Jersey. You will be required to obtain both a NJ & NY RN License before matriculation, should you be admitted.
Critical Care: Acquire the most intense ICU experience you can as early as possible. We look for candidates who are accustomed to managing gravely ill patients on ventilators, with invasive monitoring, vasopressor infusions and other resuscitative efforts.
Evidence of two years current registered nursing experience prior to entry into the program.
A minimum of one complete year of full time critical care experience at the time of the interview and prefer it to be in a dynamic/high acuity unit.
Preferably one of the following:
Surgical ICU
Cardio Thoracic ICU
Neurosurgical ICU
Pediatric ICU
Burn or Trauma ICU
They may consider:
Neonatal ICU
Selected PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit), if you can demonstrate comparable critical thinking skills.
They do NOT accept:
ER (Emergency Room)
OR (Operating Room)
Best advice? When working in your critical care unit, ask questions and read. Your knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology will be assessed during the interview process.
GPA: Minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average on all undergraduate coursework. Under no circumstances, will they consider a candidate with less than a 3.0 GPA.
Grades earned in science courses are scrutinized closely.
GPA is a very big factor in the selection process.
Minimum GRE scores: GRE is NOT required.
International Students: Students who are not graduates of a College or University in the United States must provide an evaluation by WES.
For all applicants who are not graduates of a US college or university, a minimum score of 95 out of a possible 120 (internet-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Certifications:
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Adult, Child, Infant and AED.
Shadow a CRNA for a day or two This will help you fully appreciate the scope of practice and will demonstrate your strong desire to accomplish your career goal.
CRNA Prerequisite Course Requirements
Basic Statistics course including inferential and descriptive statistics with a minimum grade of "C".
Accredited CRNA Programs are reviewed regularly. UMDNJ School of Nursing Nurse Anesthetist Program was last reviewed 05/2008. It was given the maximum of 10 years accreditation and will be reviewed again 05/2018. This shows that the program is in full compliance with the COA’s accreditation standards.
Pass Rate for CRNA Boards at UMDNJ School of Nursing Please note: It is extremely rare for a student at any CRNA school to not eventually pass the exam. Most students who don’t pass the first time pass the second. Very rarely does a person ever take it a third time. This statistic only measures how well the program prepares students to pass the test the first time around.
Transfer Students You may transfer graduate credits to UMDNJ School of Nursing from another accredited institution. Grades must be a B (3.0) or better and must be no more than 7 years old. Credits for clinical work are not accepted for transfer.
All information given on this site about UMDNJ School of Nursing’s Nurse Anesthetist Program was taken directly from their website.
