TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. Which Chicago community college will get me my ADN quickest??

    TheSquire replied to Poosh's topic in Illinois Nursing

    A CNA course is a high-school level class. Of course it's a

  2. Newbie - - help with nursing problem statements

    TheSquire replied to melissa1216's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Same here - nursing problem statements have always been nursing diagnoses for me, just that I didn't necessarily plan out care for all of the problems. One of my instructors had me rank actual...

  3. DePaul's MENP questions

    TheSquire replied to bcxllady's topic in Illinois Nursing

    People do get admitted on occasion, but they usually have something else to help make them look spiffy for the admissions

  4. What color are your school uniforms?

    TheSquire replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    Nope, not for me. Then again, I'm one of the many thousands of reasons that "girls" is no longer a proper way to address a group of nursing

  5. Do I really need a BSN?

    TheSquire replied to latebloomer74's topic in General Students

    No, I was more referring to the fact that hardly anyone will hire a new nurse until they have a year's worth of

  6. Balancing Nursing School and a Boyfriend

    TheSquire replied to averie123's topic in General Nursing

    From the male nursing student side of the equation - school comes first. Period. Give your significant other the time that you can, but you need to make clear from the beginning that school comes...

  7. How much do I need to know about sports?

    TheSquire replied to AragornSkywalker's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Arg, I need to fill in my bracket sometime tomorrow, while I'm also studying for the med-surg ATI on Wednesday. We're all going out as a cohort after the test for St. Patrick's Day, so I'll be in no...

  8. Do I really need a BSN?

    TheSquire replied to latebloomer74's topic in General Students

    Student loans aren't so bad, just as long as you pay them off (which is tax deductable). Get the BSN, and after your one year of experience you'll be set for bigger and better

  9. nose ring-MRSA

    TheSquire replied to angelstrings's topic in General Students

    Go ask this in the Infectious Disease specialty forum, they might have a

  10. ERI Exit exam

    TheSquire replied to TSURN2B's topic in General Students

    It's not a cover-up for poor instructors. If students aren't passing the exit exam, it should be at least as bad for the instructors (...and the admissions committee...) as if their students all...

  11. fed up with nursing school

    TheSquire replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in General Students

    Actually, the biggest source of the theory/practice gap is that a lot of the highest-level nursing theories aren't theories at all (as they don't predict anything), but are conceptual frameworks. The...

  12. Is it really that hard?

    TheSquire replied to EbonyBorn2Succeed's topic in General Students

    one of the issues with language that people have is that anything in healthcare not directly involved with nursing is referred to under the "medical" umbrella. for example, i had 'medical' experience...

  13. Lpn school now or prerequisite courses??

    TheSquire replied to sam1984's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My thought is to do the prerequisites, skip the LPN, and apply for a bunch of ABSN programs. If you have a decent academic background then getting into an ABSN program (or Masters Entry program)...

  14. If someone tested you on the last book you read for fun, what grade would you get?

    TheSquire replied to annalem's topic in General Nursing

    A-,B+, but only 'cos its the end of the quarter, so I haven't had much free reading time yet. I'm going to be hitting up the public library after my last test,

  15. Recommendations on where to live in tucson, AZ

    TheSquire replied to LnUyen22's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Move to the AZ

  16. ATI Cynicism

    TheSquire posted a topic in General Students

    My lucky self gets to take the Med-Surg ATI in a few days. If I don't pass at level 2, I have to miss the first day of clinical next quarter in order to re-take the test, as instructional staff can't...

  17. what rights do we have?

    TheSquire replied to Sumshine's topic in General Students

    That's weird - at my school we each got a crate at the beginning of the program with all the ATI books we would need, along with the

  18. Antitussives.. thin or promote productive of mucus??

    TheSquire replied to RN_jobhunting's topic in General Students

    My thought is False: productive cough should be encouraged to remove mucus, which is not possible when antitussives suppress the cough reflex; mucus production is not germane to the action of...

  19. what rights do we have?

    TheSquire replied to Sumshine's topic in General Students

    If they changed things in the middle of a course, you could challenge the change as it was not included in the course syllabus. However, changes to the curriculum as a whole are out of your control,...

  20. EMT and Micro?

    TheSquire replied to JM5NA's topic in General Students

    I'm continually amazed by the people who ask "Can I take class x that requires actual work and class y that requires actual work in the same term?" Once you hit actual nursing school you have...

  21. Antitussives.. thin or promote productive of mucus??

    TheSquire replied to RN_jobhunting's topic in General Students

    Antitussives suppress the act of coughing. Mucolytics/expectorants thin secretions. You can commonly find both of them in the same over-the-counter medications, so they don't oppose each other. The...

  22. Have a BS in Biology now - what's next? ASN or BSN? HELP!

    TheSquire replied to Guest405338's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are also master's entry programs out there which spit you out with either an RN or some flavor of APN alongside your MS or MSN. Additionally, you'd be eligible for additional Federal loans...

  23. Purine Analogues Help

    TheSquire replied to CBsMommy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Wikipedia's an ok resource - you can't take it as the final word on anything, but it can be a start for helping you figure things

  24. Reconstitution

    TheSquire replied to lissamb's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Figure out the reconstituted concentration, shift the unit scale for the ampicilin to the proper magnitude, put your desired dose in the place where its unwanted unit will cancel out, and you'll come...

  25. Purine Analogues Help

    TheSquire replied to CBsMommy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I challenge your assertion that there is NOTHING on the web about this topic. If you go and google "purine analogue" the first link that is returned is to the wikipedia article for the same, which...