TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. Which nursing programs is cheaper Rush, Depaul or UIC for a Master-Entry Program?

    TheSquire replied to Xavier2010's topic in General Nursing

    UIC's master's-entry program is the hardest to get into, since there's so few spots. Further, what I've heard is that an economic assumption upon which the UIC program is based, that hospitals will...

  2. Which nursing programs is cheaper Rush, Depaul or UIC for a Master-Entry Program?

    TheSquire replied to Xavier2010's topic in General Nursing

    Also, could someone move this thread over to the Illinois Nursing Programs discussion board, where it belongs?

  3. Which nursing programs is cheaper Rush, Depaul or UIC for a Master-Entry Program?

    TheSquire replied to Xavier2010's topic in General Nursing

    I'll buy that they're a top-ten school overall, but their GEM is that far up? Didn't they just completely reorganize

  4. Which nursing programs is cheaper Rush, Depaul or UIC for a Master-Entry Program?

    TheSquire replied to Xavier2010's topic in General Nursing

    Well, yes, I was looking for something a little more specific: what you want out of each program? They all do things differently, and that really should be your higher

  5. Which nursing programs is cheaper Rush, Depaul or UIC for a Master-Entry Program?

    TheSquire replied to Xavier2010's topic in General Nursing

    Depends, what do you want from

  6. Med calc question

    TheSquire replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    More or less - if you set up all your conversions in one go, as in dimensional analysis, you can simply the process a bit by removing common factors (twos, threes, fives, and multiples of ten are what...

  7. Student Nurses Association

    TheSquire replied to 1234student's topic in General Students

    If you do a First Aid tent, make sure you have some First Responders, EMTs, or some people who read the back of your assessment textbook and therefore know how to do a SAMPLE history. SAMPLE and...

  8. Student Nurses Association

    TheSquire replied to 1234student's topic in General Students

    My SNA organizes activities like campus Blood Drives and volunteers to staff the first aid tent for events. Since I'm in a grad-entry program, everyone's of age, so it occasionally holds socials in...

  9. International version of books

    TheSquire replied to MissJessica,RN's topic in General Students

    Hardcover binding doesn't weigh that much - I think the difference is in your

  10. Military Nursing?

    TheSquire replied to LiL_121's topic in Government, Military

    All nurses in the United States Uniformed Services are commissioned officers and I'm pretty sure you need to be a citizen to get a commission so you may be SOL until you get your citizenship....

  11. Flu shot this year

    TheSquire replied to kenpochic's topic in General Students

    The H1N1 shot last year was just like any other flu shot; the only reason it was separate was because H1N1 emerged after production on the regular seasonal flu shot had begun. This year it's included...

  12. Question about MSN vs. MS in nursing

    TheSquire replied to SquirrelQueen's topic in Post Graduate Students

    ...and by "MN" you mean

  13. Any of you wear clothes under your scrubs?

    TheSquire replied to ImThatGuy's topic in Male Nursing Students

    My scrubs have lots of pockets, so they're pretty good in that department. However, I didn't know that I could get scrubs with elastic waistbands when I bought my school scrubs. Drawstring-only...

  14. Question about MSN vs. MS in nursing

    TheSquire replied to SquirrelQueen's topic in Post Graduate Students

    My school awards an MS in Nursing as opposed to an MSN, with the explanation being that the MS implies a heavier research component as opposed to a clinical-only MSN. This is merely what I've been...

  15. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    Additionally, I am opposed to giving out answers on the message board - not only because it defeats the point of having the student work through the problem but also, if it is part of an assigned...

  16. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    So you just did dimensional analysis in your head - because you understood the math and knew how to set up the problem. The issue is more that our math-phobic culture promotes ignorance of simple...

  17. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    The way the question is set up it wants you to do the problem stepwise. Go from mg Digoxin to mL Solution to minutes of pushing. Remember that your conversion factors, such as 0.25mg Dig/1 mL...

  18. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    I actually like this website better, as it emphasizes the simplicity of DA rather than making it harder by breaking it down into tiny incremental

  19. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    If you click on the 'dimensional anaylsis' tag I put on this thread, you get shown a list of other relevant pages on allnurses including this blog post on nursing math resources, from which I found...

  20. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    It's the way you learned to do unit conversion in Chem

  21. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    ...I dunno what you're talking about, my cohort's 43 people. I think you're in the cohort ahead of mine, which just

  22. dosage calculation

    TheSquire replied to waterwater's topic in General Students

    Set up your chain of multiplication so that the units cancel out. Beyond that, which is really just a restatement of what dimensional analysis is, I don't know how to help you here without giving you...

  23. How to beat the freshman 15!

    TheSquire replied to StangGang92's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    ...wait to start nursing school until after you get your first bachelors. Then it'll become the grad school

  24. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    It's rather rare for a person in the US to acquire Hep B immunity without having some risk factors - you can go ahead and get the titers drawn first, but generally one is assumed to be naive to the...

  25. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    One of the underlying issues that DePaul's program had a number of faculty leave in the middle of expanding the program, resulting in faculty having to play musical chairs with course assignments....