sic and tired

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1. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   For many who have been monitored, there are safeguards for licenses as well as recovery. If one is in recovery those safeguards are easy. I have not been monitored for several years now, HOWEVER, part of the relapse prevention plan that was set up ...

2. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Tom Hopefully the place where you have your family or yourself is wise enough to maintain a nurses confidentiality. And if you want the best care then hopefully she has a nurse who is in recovery and not the one that hasn't been caught yet. Hopeful...

3. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   There are open meetings. There are often professionals and others who come there to find out more about addiction, and its facets. family members of alcoholics and addicts. you can look for open meetings in your area, and then you can present this...

4. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Usually Urines are done randomly. Someone must document that they notified you to get one and that you complied within a 24 hour period or they are not considered random. A therapist or an attorneys secretary can do this since you are not required ...

5. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Actually it is not the nurses being monitored that one needs to be so aware of, it is those still caught in the web of addiction, and being compromised by well meaning peers who look the other way. I no longer work as a nurse, my choice. I complete...

6. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Often if feels like a witch hunt. If you have an attorney I suggest that you find out if that attorney is up on Board issues for Nurses and nurse addiction. If not find one. There are many. He should be able to contact the investigating authority...

7. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Investigations take a significant amount of time. It usually depends on the state and whether the Pharmacy Board has been called in on the investigation. Your attorney is right it is a waiting game. A friend of mine was 2 years clean and sober bef...

8. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Yes often it is easier to do all the things that result in consequences rather than face addiction because facing the addiction is impossible when you are completely unaware that it exists. Denial is one of the primary symptoms. I agree that many n...

9. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   See nurses eat their young. Many nurses do not return to direct patient care. Some do with monitoring but many find other avenues to continue a profession that most love. And by statistics, for every addict or alcoholic nurse there are at lest 5 n...

10. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

    sic and tired replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn't take much Let's face it Nurses are intelligent beings or we wouldn't have made it through nursing school For many nurses, I believe the statistics are currently 1 in 7 according to the CDC, addiction is a difficult problem. And as nurses ...