License Reinstatement After Revoke Is There Hope?

CONGRATULATIONS! This is the first time I've read this thread and for the entirety of it hoped there would be some good news at the end. Way to go on jumping some gigantic hurdles! Have a long and wonderful career!!

Congrats!! Thanks for letting us know. Now you know you can do anything. Good luck.

Such a pleasure to read of your success! Congratulations!

These are some great solutions/ideas. It is so nice to see people working to help each other or spread knowledge. I hope more folks present their ideas on how to proceed. You never know when the seeds you sow are the seeds you may need in the future. Sprinkle and nurture. Unemployement benefits may not be everything but they may just help you through the next step by providing the flexibility of schedule for your next step.

First of all, let me say thank you to all of you, but especially RobiGayle. I too live in Tennessee and lost my license a few years ago due to my addiction to prescription meds. It has been a long hard road for me too, but I have been clean for about five years as well. I was so ashamed that I had let myself get to such a place, I slipped into my depression AFTER I lost my license. Well, it took two years to recover from that; then I had to go through trying to rebuild my life. How does a nurse do that?? Nursing is what we were born to do! I have reinvented myself twice, and I have done pretty well. I have been thinking about how to go about fixing this, but my fear of the process was just too great. I miss feeling like I am making a difference when I come home every day. All I can say is that I really feel incomplete because nursing was my life. Thank you RobiGayle so much for putting your experience into words for me. I read your experience and cried my eyes out. I know now that there is hope for me to get my life back after I messed it up so badly. I have been wanting to call the BON for about six months now, but I have not had the strength...not until today. I know that this process may not be easy, but it's necessary to be healed, right? I have read all of the comments here, and I know that this is why we do what we do. You guys are great, and I hope that one day I can earn the right to be considered one of you again. Any words of help at this point would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks robbigale! I needed all the answers you got from your posts. I am still afraid to work. my licence was revoked for a drug arrest by way of letter from FL board of nursing in 2005. Now in 2009 I try'd to get reinstated. Every time I call the board, nomatter who i speak with, they insist that my rn license is active, valid and no indication that my license was revoked. The board sent e-mail showing my active license today 9-1-2009. I'm afraid if I begin working, this will somehow bite my but. Should I send the arrest records and stir everything up? What a mess