National University Nurse Anesthesiology Program

09/15/2025

ACCEPTANCES for the 2026 Cohort 8 out by WEDNESDAY!

08/22/2025

Interview invites are out & Questions about NursingCAS and Grade Replacements

Hello All!

Interview invites for the next cohort to start Jan 2026 are sent out by email!

Also we received some emails asking about if NursingCAS replaces old grades with new ones. For example if you had a C in chem and retook it and got an A.

The answer is NursingCAS cannot do this, but we do. We review every app and replace the grades and recalculate the GPA ourselves. So rest assured your GPA was updated by us!

This year was the most applications we have ever had:

850 NursingCAS applications

400 highly qualified applicants considered for interviews

110 interviewees selected for 30 spots.

We didnt select all 3.9 GPAs. We look at the whole applicant through the lens of the competition and select based on that!

Good luck all and if you did not get selected this cycle come back next year! We are opening the NursingCAS app system early so people can submit sometime in the next few months.

Remember what 'The Situation' Mike Sorrentino said: "The COMEBACK is always greater than the SETBACK!"

Also, here is our program applicant FAQ section: https://www.nu.edu/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice-dnap-frequently-asked-questions/

07/07/2024

Nurse Anesthesia Resident David Warren interviews our assistant program director Mike MacKinnon DNP FNP CRNA FAANA about the program, being an independent CRNA and NP.

This video is an interview with my CRNA school assistant program director at National University Nurse Anesthesiology Program, Dr. Mike MacKinnon, DNP, CRNA,...

07/04/2024

Happy Independence Day from all of us at the NUDNAP!

04/24/2024

National University Nurse Anesthesia Residents in Washington D.C.

04/07/2024

NUDNAP Nurse Anesthesia Senior Resident Jourdan Jacques taking care of an extremely sick patient. Greta job Jourdan and thank you for sending it in to recognize her!

02/13/2024

Historical significance in nurse anesthesiology...This is a rare photo of the operating room at Harlem Hospital on September 20, 1958.

On that day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was at a book signing of his first book, Stride Toward Freedom. While there, a woman stabbed Dr. King in the chest with a letter opener in his sternum between a major artery and aorta as reported. Dr. King was rushed to Harlem Hospital for an emergency thoracotomy. On call, was a Nurse Anesthesiologist, Goldie Brangman.

In that era, Black Nurse Anesthesiologists at Harlem Hospital and white Nurse Anesthesiologists at Presbyterian Medical Center. This the the actual picture from the operating room of Dr. King as the patient, trauma surgeons, nurses and Nurse Anesthesiologists, Goldie Brangman for the 3 and 1/2 hour surgery. The anesthesia machine used at that time was called the Heidbrink. During that era, there was no mechanical ventilation and Ms. Brangman, literally bagged Dr.King for compliance throughout the entire surgery. Dr. King recovered at Harlem Hospital with Mrs. Corretta Scott King at his bedside.

Goldie Brangman was the Program Director of the Harlem School of Anesthesiology since 1951 for 36 years. In 1959, Goldie Brangman CRNA was elected at the President of the New York Association of Nurse Anesthesiologists. Then, she served as the Treasurer of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) from 1967 to 1969.

Finally, Goldie Brangman, CRNA, MBA, MEd was elected as President of the AANA from 1973-1974 and first and only Black CRNA to assume that senior leadership role. In 1983, the AANA awarded her the Helen Lamb Outstanding Educator Award. In 1985, Ms. Brangman, received the AANA Agatha Hodgins Outstanding Achievement Award.

The late Goldie Brangman, CRNA, MBA, MEd. was a pioneering voice in Nurse Anesthesiology.

01/21/2024

Happy Nurse Anesthesiologist Week!

12/09/2023

Holoanatomy comes to the NUDNAP program!

Check out NU Nurse Anesthesiology Prgm's video.

12/07/2023

Congratulations to the 2023 NU DNAP Graduating class!!!

Check out NU Nurse Anesthesiology Prgm's video.

12/01/2023

Congrats Lauren and the rest of the 2023 grad class! See you this weekend for graduation!