TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

TheSquire has 14 years experience as a DNP, APRN, NP and specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

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1. How do you write your credentials after graduating but waiting to take the boards?

   TheSquire replied to night_owl_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   That's not how the LACE framework works - after you graduate, in all the states that I'm aware of you then have to apply for and be granted licensure, generally after you are certified in your...

2. NP Schedule

   TheSquire replied to KYNurse123's topic in Advanced Practice

   The Urgent Cares that I've worked at generally put full-time at 4 shifts/week. I'm now going to work at an Emergency Department; 120 hours/4 weeks is considered full time by the practice, with shifts...

3. Nurse Breaks in ER

   TheSquire replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Emergency

   Whenever management at my former ED made noises about staff not taking lunches, I'd point out A) properly staffing the unit is their responsibility and B) that I'd never gotten a 15-minute break, let...

4. Urgent Care Experiences

   TheSquire replied to Mary3010's topic in Emergency

   UCC nurses haunt the Ambulatory Care specialty

5. Camp Nurse Experience

   TheSquire replied to Nadmoose's topic in Camp

   My experience is working at BSA Summer camps as a Health Officer, which are a different setting than most Summer camps you'll see discussed here. While the exact situation varies depending on local...

6. Procedures as an FNP

   TheSquire replied to Jpiittmann97's topic in Advanced Practice

   I suture (which I did a lab on in school); I also do I&Ds, nail trephination, superficial foreign body removal, and ear

7. RNs being phased out of urgent care?

   TheSquire replied to cowan19's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   I don't know where you're getting "most" from. At least in NJ, "most" Urgent Cares are either mom-and-pops or franchised chains independent from the local hospital

8. Alphabet Soup of a Title

   TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Advanced Practice

   IBCLC is effectively an RN-level certification; it's hefty, to be sure, but it does not grant any Advanced Practice privileges. This seems like someone who has mistaken simile for

9. RNs being phased out of urgent care?

   TheSquire replied to cowan19's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   Many urgent cares don't do IV access/infusion except while waiting on an ambulance to take an acute pt to the ED, so those skills are rarely needed, and often done by the

10. CEN EXAM - HELP!

    TheSquire replied to carlowellnj's topic in Emergency

    I took Solheim's class from the man himself back in the before-times and then passed the test a month later, so while I can't comment on the efficacy of the online version, the in person format worked...

11. Why won't they pay us more to stay??

    TheSquire replied to bitter_betsy's topic in Emergency

    I'm reminded of a scene in Fight Club, and I should bring up that one would have to factor in the increased rate of errors committed by new grads and other new hires and the resultant increase in...

12. Chicago NPs

    TheSquire replied to Hoofpk's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I graduated from DePaul's DNP/FNP program in November 2018, intending to go into Emergency to initially work Fast Track. I already had a MS in Nursing, so I'd sat the boards after completing the...

13. Adjunct faculty job

    TheSquire replied to proudnurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    As addressed by others, schools, colleges, and departments of nursing use adjunct positions the way they're intended to be used - to allow a department or school to bring in current practitioners in a...

14. DePaul MENP Program Admissions

    TheSquire replied to KBloom07's topic in Illinois Nursing

    There's a lot to unpack here written by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, so let's take it from the top. If you're going into nursing specifically to do advanced practice,...

15. Multiple Certification Bodies - how did we get here?

    TheSquire replied to TheSquire's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm not familiar with said CRNA strife - care to elaborate on what it is and how it's related to having only one certifying