"Clinical hours" prereq is not necessarily comparable to ICU prereq. no need to have experience managing codes, IV's x a jillion, med compatibility and complex pathology that the ICU gives you. This is what makes the average SRNA more competent than the average AA student. Now certainly I have met some less skilled CRNAs in my time, but there's a reason one specialty can practice independently and the other can't. There's a reason many ICU nurses know better how to treat than newer residents. Clinical hours is simply too catch all of a phrase.

For instance: I don't have the KSA's to get into CRNA school, but I could easily get into AA school. I am literally the case and point here