Acute Care CNS: Any of you out there?

Dear Joe NightingMale,
this may be unnerving (or, the wrong place to write you a message, I apologize to everyone) but I am one of the myriad pre-nursing students lurking on this board soaking up the info and I had noticed some of your posts before because you seemed to have similar interests and reasons for going into nursing as mine (the philosophical or sociological side, questions about meaning/responsibility in health and illness). I am dismayed to hear that you didn't get into UIC because that's where I want to go! For the GEP program. I was just wondering...do you have a sense of why you didn't get in? What route did you end up taking to become a nurse? And do you feel like your intellectual interests in health care are being satisfied by working as a nurse? Also, more practically, I am confused by your saying you might pursue the Acute Care CNS after your Master's...are you enrolled in a Master's for something else now? I thought the Acute Care CNS was at the Master's level.