TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. Not the new grad problem I expected..

    TheSquire replied to MInurse.st's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you want the ED, go for the ED job and move if you have to. It's a completely different type of nursing than what happens up on the floor, and the experience transfers well should you decide to...

  2. New grad...I must have gotten super lucky.

    TheSquire replied to TeleRN311's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think the OP is all that lucky: just as in the student forums, people who are complainers post more. Everyone else just goes to

  3. Pass/fail at your school

    TheSquire replied to NSGstudent12's topic in General Students

    The actual passing percentage is irrelevant, 'cos if a course instructor has anything remotely near a clue of what they're doing, they'll write exams so that the percentage of the class they want to...

  4. NEW GRAD

    TheSquire replied to shawnda2211's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Seconded: you're not "license pending" in Illinois until you have your pass letter in hand - you can't practice as a nurse beforehand. If you've already sat the NCLEX but apply before you get your...

  5. New Grad Positions in Chicago

    TheSquire replied to mlyRN's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Again - three weeks is the soonest you'll hear back from most hospitals - if at all. Hospital HRs in Chicago move at a glacial pace, and don't believe in sending rejection notices either. Also,...

  6. How many hours should I study?

    TheSquire replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Students

    Hence, "until you know the material". There's no minimum that anyone can set for you, you have to figure that out for

  7. RN to BSN Project - need camp nurses input!

    TheSquire replied to lawrencenurse's topic in Camp

    The camp I used to work for, and currently volunteer at, is a BSA-operated camp with multiple sub-camps where the campers actually stay The vast majority of our census is comprised of Boy Scouts ages...

  8. Epi pen protocol help needed ASAP

    TheSquire replied to bsyrn's topic in Camp

    IF anaphylaxis THEN epipen. Why get the doc involved? Since when do docs see their own patients in the Emergency

  9. Will I get a call saying I didn't get the job?

    TheSquire replied to OhioRN2011's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My experience with hospital HR is that silence = no. Until you hear back from them, you're more than justified in continuing your job

  10. New grad resume

    TheSquire replied to roxy574's topic in General Students

    I've always either put "References available upon request" at the end of the resume, or omitted it entirely - generally the latter. Real estate on your one-page resume is valuable enough as it is -...

  11. Theoretical Vs. Practical

    TheSquire replied to loveofnature's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This may not be relevant, but a distinction between a college and university is merely that a university is comprised of a group of colleges and/or institutes. It really doesn't have much bearing, if...

  12. Taking Pre-Reqs from a school without a nursing program

    TheSquire replied to iheart's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Community colleges tend to be cheaper (and really easy to get into for anyone who at least passes classes at a 4-yr school), which is why they're the more popular. I did a full undergrad at a school...

  13. Why are so many new nurses having problems?

    TheSquire replied to okchug's topic in General Nursing

    A few thoughts regarding issues raised in this thread: Computer Charting All through nursing school I encountered computerized charting, and didn't find it all that onerous. Then again, I've grown up...

  14. Why does everyone think that they can be a nurse/ or nursing is so easy?

    TheSquire replied to lifein08's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I agree - for someone for whom ANY college education would be a challenge, nursing school can be rather hard. However, for anyone who's been through college once already, nursing school is just work...

  15. Best Long Sleeve Undershirt to Wear With Scrub Top?

    TheSquire replied to PacoUSA's topic in Men in Nursing

    None - wear a regular undershirt. The entire point of wearing a scrub top is to leave the hands and arms exposed for washing, which is defeated by wearing a long-sleeved undershirt. Then again,...

  16. Night Shifters: Does your hospital have cafeteria hours for night shift?

    TheSquire replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    You've obviously not met my patient

  17. Comparative relevancy of nursing dx

    TheSquire posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, there was recently a rather long thread on this board about nursing diagnoses. The initial thesis, which was never really refuted, was that bedside nurses (i.e. those working primarily with...

  18. Night Shifters: Does your hospital have cafeteria hours for night shift?

    TheSquire replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    I'm at a low-200s-bed community hospital just outside the city limits of a major city in the US. Our cafeteria closes before 1900 (when, I'm not certain) and doesn't open again until 0630. We have a...

  19. Epi pen protocol help needed ASAP

    TheSquire replied to bsyrn's topic in Camp

    Check the local EMS protocols. Epi-pen usage will (or, at least, should) be on the Basic list and you should be able to adapt that

  20. Personalizing Stethoscopes?

    TheSquire replied to doublehelix's topic in General Students

    ...which is why your steth should live in a leg pocket and not around your neck. Also, a stethoscope in your pocket does not provide a belligerent patient with an instant choke-hold on

  21. Lactated Ringers vs .9NS

    TheSquire replied to Cindy 17's topic in General Students

    Normal Saline is cheaper, so in situations where it doesn't matter (i.e. slow infusions in non-pregnant patients) NS is usually given. In burn patients and pregnant patients, LR is the fluid of...

  22. Lactated Ringers vs .9NS

    TheSquire replied to Cindy 17's topic in General Students

    It's 0.9NS - she didn't fail to have a leading zero, she transposed the decimal point and the

  23. What documents do you need to transfer a RN license from New York to Connecticut?

    TheSquire replied to ilove's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ask the Texas board of nursing, or better, look it up on their

  24. Why is it so hard to get a nursing job?

    TheSquire replied to lifein08's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I don't know about the rest of the state, but in the Chicago market Cicero had it wrong, since silence="no". Are you looking for/finding RN positions for which you have experience, or are you hopping...

  25. Overtime, how much?

    TheSquire replied to anotherone's topic in General Nursing

    I'm one of the few people in my dept working 40 hours/wk - two 12s, two 8s. I'm happy to come in early on one of my 8s to turn it into a twelve for some overtime, but I'm much less willing to work a...