TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. DePaul MENP

    TheSquire replied to francesB's topic in Illinois Nursing

    You should be able to log in to campus connect - at least, I was well able to well before orientation. Call DePaul's information services people. You'll register for classes either at orientation or...

  2. DePaul MENP

    TheSquire replied to francesB's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Orientation for Winter Cohort MENP students has usually been in late October, on a Friday. However, since acceptances were sent out relatively late this year compared to years prior, I'm not sure...

  3. Work as a graduate nurse or pass the NCLEX first?

    TheSquire replied to decgrad's topic in General Students

    The State of Illinois does not permit Graduate Nurses to work as nurses, so here at least you HAVE to pass the NCLEX before you go work. Check your state's Nurse Practice Act if you've not already...

  4. Student loans to cover living expenses...where did you get yours at?

    TheSquire replied to nvsmom's topic in General Students

    Federal GradPLUS program - though I'm doing a graduate entry program, part of the unspoken rationale for which is to allow students to get Federal loans. The GradPLUS has a ceiling of $100k, above...

  5. mean clinical prof

    TheSquire replied to deetrain's topic in General Students

    On a normal patient, you should be able to get a BP on the first

  6. how to apa reference lippincott

    TheSquire replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    If you can find out who wrote which chapter, cite the author of the chapter and the chapter title, then cite the editors with the book title. The OWL will tell you how to do

  7. Wrong career or wrong school?

    TheSquire replied to Eponine's topic in General Students

    The foundations class is all "crap you need to know as an academically-prepared nurse that didn't fit anywhere else". Power through it and you'll be

  8. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Most people have been out of undergrad for a few years before starting it, though there are a few who have been out 8+ years and a few who enter right out of undergrad. As for finding people to room...

  9. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    On-campus housing...is nonexistent for graduate students. While I'm sure you could get into the dorms if you really wanted, the only space DePaul has set aside for grad students is downtown in the...

  10. Upset w/ the double earpiece Littmann Stethoscopes:(

    TheSquire replied to uRN4it's topic in General Students

    I...think this might be a problem specific to your program. The two-headed steth my program used was much less nice than a littmann. As an aside - I already knew how to take a BP before I entered my...

  11. ATI testing

    TheSquire replied to jostjlAZ's topic in General Students

    SR2, SR1, Huh? My school uses ATI, and these terms mean nothing to

  12. APA

    TheSquire replied to suni's topic in General Students

    ...software? I'm confused. All you need to do is learn the formatting, for which the best website on the web is the Purdue University OWL, Purdue

  13. Final Term

    TheSquire posted a topic in General Students

    Since the board's chock-full of recent immigrants from the pre-nursing board, obsessing over things like their first tests and the number of textbooks they have to read, I was wondering how many...

  14. Student nurse extern/internship in chicagoland/quad cities?

    TheSquire replied to Freakoutgirl16's topic in Illinois Nursing

    In Chicago, check out Northwestern Memorial, RIC, and Advocate Christ in Oak Lawn. There's very few such programs around nowadays - many of them bit the dust in the recent economic downturn when...

  15. Anyone know what happened to the CNL?

    TheSquire replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Post Graduate Students

    The CNL is a certification searching for a purpose, which wasn't helped by initially being paired with masters-entry

  16. Should I even be here taking up space?

    TheSquire replied to danger turtle's topic in General Students

    Also, RE: you not studying and acing the test while many people studied hard - some people are just not terribly good academic students. Many of them come to these boards to whine. Nursing school is...

  17. My final Practicum is in the ED...suggestions?

    TheSquire replied to malestudentnurse's topic in General Students

    If you'd asked about 6mos ago I would've told you to sign up for an EMT-B class over the

  18. Nursing Students Needed for Anonymous Survey!

    TheSquire replied to whitneyLOL's topic in General Students

    I'm getting my MS in general nursing as part of a Masters-Entry program, which isn't a selectable option in your

  19. It's actually NOT so bad!

    TheSquire replied to JBMmom's topic in General Students

    As I've said in other threads - the amount of complaining a nursing student does on the allnurses boards is inversely proportional to their GPA. People who are doing just fine academically tend not...

  20. Have any "romantic" relationships developed in your nursing program?

    TheSquire replied to mell260's topic in General Students

    Just so you know, the Guys forum has had an ongoing thread about this for a while, where the prevailing wisdom is that it's a really bad

  21. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Call the nursing dept. office about part-time schedules for the program. They exist, they're just not widely advertised for MENP. I know of a couple of alumnae who started out part-time and later...

  22. admission to depauls menp program

    TheSquire replied to krisdepaul's topic in General Students

    First off, welcome to the site. There are a number of DePaul threads active in the Illinois Nursing Programs discussion board, which you'll find under the "Region" tab at the top of the page. Briefly...

  23. Can't Hear Brachial Pulse

    TheSquire replied to Factory Ten's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    AFAIK, unless you have a Doppler stethoscope, the only pulse in the extremities you should be able to auscultate in a healthy person is the apical

  24. Dating classmates?

    TheSquire replied to AragornSkywalker's topic in Male Nursing Students

    A. Hell No. B. Even if you're older than I am, it's still a really bad idea until after you graduate. There's the exact same problems involved as dating one's supervisor at

  25. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    It depends on your personal work ethic and the type of job you've been offered. I spent a couple days a week my first quarter studying, since assessment and pharmacology are both a lot of information...