TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. Anyone Using 'Doctor' Title at Work?

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    ...but they slapped the label "residency" on the extra 300 non-clinical clinical hours for the DNP, so it must be true!

  2. Anyone Using 'Doctor' Title at Work?

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    But there is a residency within the DNP...it's just that the DNP-completion crowd squawked at having to be subordinate to another provider, so it was made entirely non-clinical. And people wonder why...

  3. Alphabet Soup of a Title

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Advanced Practice

    It does; it makes no sense other than that it's old, but it does. There are better hills to die on than trying to force title parity with

  4. Alphabet Soup of a Title

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Advanced Practice

    You've not responded to what I said. If you want the one-size-fits credential, then it's the APRN, since that's what legally lets you diagnose and treat as a provider. The DNP is

  5. New Grad Camp Nurse

    TheSquire replied to tacciari28's topic in Camp

    As an experienced BSA Health Officer (which usually only requires a EMR/EMT depending on remoteness) overseeing ~700 campers and ~150-200 staff, I would want to consider a few things on your behalf:...

  6. Anyone Using 'Doctor' Title at Work?

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    While I don't correct patients when the call me "Doctor," my standard introduction is, "Good [time of day], my name is TheSquire, I'm a Nurse Practitioner here." The capture of the academic term...

  7. Alphabet Soup of a Title

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Advanced Practice

    But MD does double-duty as both Medical Degree and signifier of licensure. If you want to make the equivalent argument for nurses, you'd want NPs to only display "APRN" or whatever the state-specific...

  8. Alphabet Soup of a Title

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Advanced Practice

    -BC indicates that they were certified by ANCC. -C indicates that they were certified by AANPCB. Alphabet soup has a place in professional communication, but half the problem is that most nurses...

  9. FNP no longer allowed to practice inpatient

    TheSquire replied to Heather7's topic in Advanced Practice

    That depends on where you are, and whose pockets various legislators are in. Emergency Nurse Practitioner is a subspecialty of Family Nurse Practitioner per AAENP, but various states and/or health...

  10. Is this the correct way to list credentials?

    TheSquire replied to erictaramoyBSN's topic in Advanced Practice

    Credentials always go Degree, License, Certification, Fellowship (with additional categories that rarely come up on this board). If you're a student, your school will have a specific way they want...

  11. Telemedicine in NP role

    TheSquire replied to jwalla20's topic in Advanced Practice

    The urgent-care clinic I work for shifted to providing Telehealth appointments as soon as Lockdown started. At the height of it, half to two-thirds of my encounters per shift were via telehealth, and...

  12. FNP

    TheSquire replied to Kayleigh's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You know this, and I know this, but good luck getting an online school to do this without kicking and

  13. FNP

    TheSquire replied to Kayleigh's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    And that's why you go to a brick-and-mortar program, ladies and

  14. FNP

    TheSquire replied to Kayleigh's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm in North/Central NJ, but my current employer didn't want NP students in the before-times, let alone now. Poke at the clinical coordinator for your school - under their accreditation standards,...

  15. 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

    I'd go with the latter - You've earned all of them, and the fact that there's not a redundancy with the latter two is a conversation point, if nothing

  16. 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

    RN and RN-BC are redundant, it bridges the License/Certification divide. If it's confusing, blame ANCC - they're the ones who came up with that. Since PCCN isn't an ANCC cert, I assume you're...

  17. 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

    Incorrect. The order, as discussed by myself above and elsewhere, is always Degree, License, Certification,

  18. NP's how are you these days?

    TheSquire replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    A week later - clinic has reduced hours from 12 to 8 weekdays; we're experimenting with telehealth to keep our numbers up. Most staff are currently being issued one surgical mask per day; we had a...

  19. 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

    Your linked newsletter...from 2008...says stuff like the above that is directly contradicted by the current TX BON website which states that Texas requires National Certification: I don't know...

  20. 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 what I figured. So, @MikeFNPC, you'll be MSN, RN once you graduate until you pass your boards, then you'll still be MSN, RN until you are licensed by the State of Texas, at which point you get...

  21. PPE situation in your clinic

    TheSquire posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I figure this is more appropriate for here than the "disaster" section, since this is a niche question: If your urgent care/primary care/whatever office is still seeing patients in-person, what is...

  22. 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

    Admittedly I'm not familiar with how Tx works, but how do you get an APRN without first having your national boards? That's not how the LACE model is supposed to

  23. 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

    A few things 1. Your degree does not depend upon your passing boards. You earned it, and the only way it can be stripped from you is if your university finds evidence of gross academic dishonesty. 2....

  24. NP's how are you these days?

    TheSquire replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It took me a year to find my first job - like you, I was an ED nurse, but I was being picky and looking for ER or urgent care jobs. I don't want to imagine what it'd be like looking for a job now. I...

  25. School Pretty Much Canceled Clinical

    TheSquire replied to Futurenurse7321's topic in General Students

    While I agree with most other posters that losing some of your clinicals isn't the end of the world, make sure that you and others fight to ensure that you get your capstone/internship term as you...