TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. Sticky Please: Every state now has a "Nursing Programs Discussion" forum

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

    Giving this a bump, as conditions have deteriorated since I originally posted this. For the love of your deity of choice, people, how hard is it to post threads in the proper

  2. Nursing Programs in Chicago

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

    Ya know, there's a whole forum devoted to IL Nursing Programs under the "Region" tab. Why don't you poke around there and read up on DePaul's MENP program, UIC's GEP, Rush's GEM, West Surburban's...

  3. Accepted to NS? What was your GPA?

    TheSquire replied to chg05's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My undergraduate GPA was 3.6, which got me into my graduate-entry

  4. So many thoughts, So confused. So need help

    TheSquire replied to destined4success's topic in General Students

    As a student at a school that has a mandatory level 2 proficiency on the subject ATIs to pass built-in to the curriculum, you're not getting a lot of sympathy from me. Passing the ATI at that level...

  5. What specialty do you want and not want to work in?

    TheSquire replied to guiltysins's topic in General Students

    The USPHS Commissioned Corps provides medical staffing for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. One way for you to get exposed to that is to join one of the commissioned corps' internship programs for...

  6. ATTN People looking for info on specific programs

    TheSquire posted a topic in General Students

    If you look under the "Region" tab at the top of this site, each state now has a corresponding forum for nursing programs within that state. I highly suggest that people looking for Bubkis County...

  7. ATTN People looking for info on specific programs

    TheSquire replied to TheSquire's topic in General Students

    I think that part of the issue is that a lot of students stay in just the students section of the site and don't wander over to the state boards

  8. Pharmacology vs Medical Terminology Class

    TheSquire replied to FaithnFocus's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I'm not at Truman CC student, so I can't say definitively, but you need Pharmacology while medical terminology's merely nice to have - a lot of it you can pick up as you

  9. What hospitals are hiring in Chicago

    TheSquire replied to nky30's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I have been specifically told by one of my clinical instructors whose day job is at Northwestern Memorial that NMH will only hire you as a New Grad if you did an internship or externship

  10. What's on your list?

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

    Why would you lug your books to class? Those are for reading at home, in the library, at the local coffeeshop, or wherever else you go to study.Also, if you join the NSNA, they have a standing...

  11. Anybody know of any Chem classes with NO lab?

    TheSquire replied to mell260's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    ...the school you're looking at doesn't require an associated lab?

  12. Should I take chemistry?

    TheSquire replied to sk8inghunny's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Take chemistry, if only so that you learn how to do dimensional analysis, the only sane way to do med

  13. What med-surg book do you use?

    TheSquire replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in General Students

    My program uses Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Eleventh Edition, though as is often the case for venerable textbooks, the authors listed in the title are no longer...

  14. transfer within CT community colleges

    TheSquire replied to Looking4ward2bRN's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Repost this in the Connecticut Nursing Programs

  15. Why pinning?

    TheSquire posted a topic in General Students

    I don't graduate until November, but since the majority of users will graduate between now and June, I've decided to bring this up now. To the best of my knowledge, the nursing school Pinning Ceremony...

  16. How many questions on ATI Fundamentals Test

    TheSquire replied to labradors4's topic in General Students

    Level three, really? My school's level two requirements correlates to near-perfect first-time pass rates on the NCLEX-RNfor each graduated cohort. I would (politely, in letter form) ask your...

  17. Study groups... To be or not to be?

    TheSquire replied to RPN_2012's topic in General Students

    Teaching someone else is actually a form of learning - it forces you to not just know but understand the material and reinforces it because you use the knowledge to instruct someone else. That said,...

  18. Why pinning?

    TheSquire replied to TheSquire's topic in General Students

    It could be, but you can also do those with cap and gown (as mine was, since undergraduates at my undergrad only walked at departmental ceremonies since the campus-wide commencement was much too...

  19. Organic chemistry anybody?

    TheSquire replied to j450n's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Molecular and Cellular Biology. I also worked in a lab for two years before going back to school for my masters-entry

  20. getting "patient care experience"

    TheSquire replied to juliambs's topic in General Students

    Becoming a CNA is the bog-standard approach. The CNA class is a high-school-level course and prepares you to do the things a nurse really doesn't like to do - bedpans, changing sheets, dressing...

  21. Metabolic/ respiratory acidosis and alkalosis

    TheSquire replied to jennielynn's topic in General Students

    That's alright - I'm still chuckling over the mental image of students in lecture desks vomiting on

  22. Study groups... To be or not to be?

    TheSquire replied to RPN_2012's topic in General Students

    Depends what you mean by 'study'. If by 'study' you mean 'get together with a small group of focused individuals and mostly go over course content' then yes, form a study group, especially if you're...

  23. Organic chemistry anybody?

    TheSquire replied to j450n's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Sadly, not really - the work ethic's more important. Knowing some important pathways (such as HMG-CoA to prenyl to cholesterol synthesis) do help you understand why certain drugs work when you take...

  24. Is it better to do an entry MSN or BSN if you do not have an RN yet?

    TheSquire replied to cacurlytop's topic in General Students

    It very much depends on where you work...and what the reputation of your school is there. If institutions think graduates of your program walk on water compared to other programs' students, they'll...

  25. Organic chemistry anybody?

    TheSquire replied to j450n's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm going to have to agree with this. After sitting through Biochem for Mol. and Cell Bio/Biochem majors, I would describe my undergraduate degree course as "five semesters of academic hazing...