TheSquire

TheSquire DNP, APRN, NP

Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing

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  1. 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 not how the LACE framework works - after you graduate, in all the states that I'm aware of you then have to apply for and be granted licensure, generally after you are certified in your...

  2. NP Schedule

    TheSquire replied to KYNurse123's topic in Advanced Practice

    The Urgent Cares that I've worked at generally put full-time at 4 shifts/week. I'm now going to work at an Emergency Department; 120 hours/4 weeks is considered full time by the practice, with shifts...

  3. Nurse Breaks in ER

    TheSquire replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Emergency

    Whenever management at my former ED made noises about staff not taking lunches, I'd point out A) properly staffing the unit is their responsibility and B) that I'd never gotten a 15-minute break, let...

  4. Urgent Care Experiences

    TheSquire replied to Mary3010's topic in Emergency

    UCC nurses haunt the Ambulatory Care specialty

  5. Camp Nurse Experience

    TheSquire replied to Nadmoose's topic in Camp

    My experience is working at BSA Summer camps as a Health Officer, which are a different setting than most Summer camps you'll see discussed here. While the exact situation varies depending on local...

  6. Procedures as an FNP

    TheSquire replied to Jpiittmann97's topic in Advanced Practice

    I suture (which I did a lab on in school); I also do I&Ds, nail trephination, superficial foreign body removal, and ear

  7. RNs being phased out of urgent care?

    TheSquire replied to cowan19's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I don't know where you're getting "most" from. At least in NJ, "most" Urgent Cares are either mom-and-pops or franchised chains independent from the local hospital

  8. Alphabet Soup of a Title

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Advanced Practice

    IBCLC is effectively an RN-level certification; it's hefty, to be sure, but it does not grant any Advanced Practice privileges. This seems like someone who has mistaken simile for

  9. RNs being phased out of urgent care?

    TheSquire replied to cowan19's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Many urgent cares don't do IV access/infusion except while waiting on an ambulance to take an acute pt to the ED, so those skills are rarely needed, and often done by the

  10. CEN EXAM - HELP!

    TheSquire replied to carlowellnj's topic in Emergency

    I took Solheim's class from the man himself back in the before-times and then passed the test a month later, so while I can't comment on the efficacy of the online version, the in person format worked...

  11. Why won't they pay us more to stay??

    TheSquire replied to bitter_betsy's topic in Emergency

    I'm reminded of a scene in Fight Club, and I should bring up that one would have to factor in the increased rate of errors committed by new grads and other new hires and the resultant increase in...

  12. Multiple Certification Bodies - how did we get here?

    TheSquire posted a topic in Advanced Practice

    How did we end up with multiple certifying boards per NP specialty - with AANPCB covering "adult" roles and PNCB covering "pediatric" roles in competition with ANCC? ANCC doesn't like to post about...

  13. Chicago NPs

    TheSquire replied to Hoofpk's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I graduated from DePaul's DNP/FNP program in November 2018, intending to go into Emergency to initially work Fast Track. I already had a MS in Nursing, so I'd sat the boards after completing the...

  14. Adjunct faculty job

    TheSquire replied to proudnurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    As addressed by others, schools, colleges, and departments of nursing use adjunct positions the way they're intended to be used - to allow a department or school to bring in current practitioners in a...

  15. DePaul MENP Program Admissions

    TheSquire replied to KBloom07's topic in Illinois Nursing

    There's a lot to unpack here written by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, so let's take it from the top. If you're going into nursing specifically to do advanced practice,...

  16. Multiple Certification Bodies - how did we get here?

    TheSquire replied to TheSquire's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm not familiar with said CRNA strife - care to elaborate on what it is and how it's related to having only one certifying

  17. Does it feel to everyone else that many newer nurses glamourize the ER and ICU?

    TheSquire replied to The0Walrus's topic in General Nursing

    Loads of people here forgetting that nursing students for over a decade have had access to social media, including this very forum. They read and have an idea of what they're getting into, the...

  18. Does it feel to everyone else that many newer nurses glamourize the ER and ICU?

    TheSquire replied to The0Walrus's topic in General Nursing

    I went into Emergency Nursing not because it was glamorized, but because my prior medical exposure was prehospital, because I like being a jack-of-all-trades, and because I liked being able to leave...

  19. ANCC Frustrations

    TheSquire replied to APike's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    They won't even let you test and then embargo the result until you finish your program? That's a bummer. AANPCB did that for people from my program in our shared situation; but then ANCC plays by...

  20. ANCC Frustrations

    TheSquire replied to APike's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The problem is that the school has ZERO control over the situation. All the certification boards have sat down and declared that you MUST complete the program for which you enrolled. They don't care...

  21. Multiple Certification Bodies - how did we get here?

    TheSquire replied to TheSquire's topic in Advanced Practice

    ...AANPCB does exist, and covers FNP and AGNP As for the rest of your post, it doesn't address the historical process that led up to how things got to be the way they are today. I'm not yet...

  22. CPR Cert question & career advice

    TheSquire replied to alilag's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I re-upped my PALS, and then my BLS/ACLS through an agency in Jersey City. They cap their classes at a super-low level (I think my PALS class had 4 students, and my BLS/ACLS class had only 3...

  23. New FNP Questions

    TheSquire replied to drbeckrn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Either OP did not pay attention during their Professional Development class, or OP's school definitely dropped the

  24. ANCC Frustrations

    TheSquire replied to APike's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I enrolled in my DNP in Fall of 2014; as I was a graduate of the MENP program at DePaul (and thus already had my MS in nursing) the plan I was given by my SON was to finish my FNP-core, they'd issue a...

  25. Anyone Using 'Doctor' Title at Work?

    TheSquire replied to jfmDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    That's what was supposed to happen starting in 2015...and didn't. You do not need a DNP upon completion of your NP Program - whether or not that's a good thing is an argument for