catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

catsmeow1972 has 15 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in OR.

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   Florida IPN saga continues

   catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Recovery

   Some states have passed rules that eliminate disciplinary action after a certain number of years; But in Florida that record remains, "protecting the public" even after we're dead. Our ancestors can look it up. But Joe Felony got his record expunged...
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   Kentucky Board KARE

   catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Recovery

   Yeah, my finish was very anticlimactic. A phone call from the b**** case manager and an emailed generic form letter followed by a hard copy. Mine made us do a silly 'exit interview.’ Basically a series of canned questions I which we supposed to tell ...
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   Life after IPN…..

   catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Recovery

   Hi all, I have not been on this site in quite some time as my 'sentence' in IPN ended a bit over 4 years ago. I chose to pull back from being here so often as I thought it important to get on with my life and not wallow in the unfairness and abuse I ...
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   Kentucky Board KARE

   catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Recovery

   I dunno, the crime syndicate that is the Florida program started doing Peth testing on a regular basis because ‘it was an additional tool to assist us in our recovery’ or some such BS. Rather hilarious (I can say that as I’ve been out of their clutch...
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   Florida IPN saga continues

   catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Recovery

   Being stuck in that BS supposed rehab ( I self reported over a mental health crisis… how drug rehab was supposed to be any use whatsoever is beyond me). I was so clueless that I didn’t even realize the place was even a rehab until I’d been there a fe...
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   Success stories of using attorney vs IPN

   catsmeow1972 replied to LittleRN's topic in Recovery

   Yes! Get an attorney. The expense of having a relationship with a good one. If we are talking Florida, there 2 big firms that specialize in this stuff. TOS says I can't name them but I had one on the back burner for a large part of my contract. My re...
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   IPN needs reforms and oversight? yes, please!

   catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Recovery

   Read in its entirety: A Call for Rational Reform of IPN and PRN Laws and Regulations I couldn't get this to post as an article, so here is the link. It is from late 2021 but clearly, someone has noticed that there are issues (nay, an entire su...
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   Kentucky Board KARE

   catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Recovery

   Granted I’ve been out of IPN for almost 3 glorious years but in my seemingly never ending time there, I managed to never have a dilute pee. How, you ask? Well I did the stupid checkin at 4am on the dot. Nothing will make you a morning person like wak...
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   IPN 40 hour restrictions

   catsmeow1972 replied to Merrieberry's topic in Recovery

   Absolutely. Staying until your relief gets in does not constitute an extra shift. Considering that I am pretty sure the clowns that run this show have not been anywhere near an actual patient in a coon’s age, they have zero idea (or more accurately d...
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    IPN 40 hour restrictions

    catsmeow1972 replied to Merrieberry's topic in Recovery

    No, IPN does not get any copies of your time card. These people lead you to be paranoid enough that you would think they did. Unless things have changed, the only thing they get is the little quarterly report where your designated supervisor checks w...
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    IPN/IME

    catsmeow1972 replied to LMA's topic in Recovery

    Oh yes, a scam to the Nth power. I am 2 years past getting out of the claws of those crooks and still have issues. Discipline that never should have been made public yet was. A suspension that never should have happened but did because those yokels c...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Recovery

    Florida is another state that makes stuff public and even after you make to the other side of your sentence, it never goes away. Confidential, my arse. Also common is shoddy, half *** paperwork and documentation. Even though I self reported (back ...
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    Nurse support group.

    catsmeow1972 replied to LostinIndy's topic in Recovery

    Not quite 2 years into my contract, I got pulled out of the In-person support group and dropped into an online thing they were ‘trialing’. It was fine by me as it seemed to be the singular acknowledgment from those people that I had mental health iss...
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    Florida IPN saga continues

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Recovery

    I’ts been nearly 2 years since I’ve been out of the clutches of those horrible people. Because I was fortunate enough to be able to move (had to multiple times during that joke of a contract because I had to go where I could find work), about 6 month...
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    I'm Tired & Weary, Why is This Profession So Cut Throat?

    catsmeow1972 replied to K. Everly's topic in Recovery

    My experience gave me a great case of PTSD that I didn’t have before. I’m one of those with mental health diagnosis yet was dumped into a program that for some baffling reason thought 6 months of drug rehab was the answer. The time I spent there, the...