backtowork

backtowork has 34 years experience and specializes in u name it.

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1. How do you know when you are finished with First Lab?

   backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

   OH Dang..I am sorry wish me luck..it was learning lessons that posted he/she was done. I apologize and hope I did not hurt your feelings with that faux paw. I am always hesitant to call the board..I have just been compliant and silent to try not to a...

2. How do you know when you are finished with First Lab?

   backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

   Thanks for the info..though I do not have a case manager since I was never in TPAPN..Just dealt with the board. Wish me luck...you said when you tried to log in it would not let you. Was that with First Lab? TXRN2..thanks for the congrats friend..you...

3. How do you know when you are finished with First Lab?

   backtowork posted a topic in Recovery

   Hello awesome recovery nurses!! Question..I have completed my one year of stips under my Board order in Texas..Handed in all the quarterly reports, all the certificates for mandatory classes, held a nursing job with the same company for a year..have ...

4. Early recovery and a death in the family

   backtowork replied to moorefun11's topic in Recovery

   I lost my Mom during the time I was being served with a Board order. I was very angry at life in general and questioned many things about my recovery and my profession. Staying sober was the only sane thing I could think of doing and it worked. Just ...

5. Working with stipulations

   backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

   Thank JMO..So good to hear from you!!! We will keep the lanterns burning for those who are in that dark place. Hope things are going well for you. Would love to hear from you in a PM in you get a chance.

6. Working with stipulations

   backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

   Hello Hope1967. I feel your pain and I know you are in the dark place of despair and shame. I know that place well. I also know there are better days to come. This journey is a rough one, but there is a reward in weathering this storm. The people who...

7. Working with stipulations

   backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

   I started this thread as a very frightened, very hopeless, and very angry nurse of 34 years tenure and many years of addiction. Thanks to a program, a higher power, and a lot of support from friends, family, and the fine people here, I am able to pos...

8. Accusation by spouse

   backtowork replied to TXRN2's topic in Recovery

   I say you use the "I don't like what I see" line next time he leaves the toilet seat up..LOL..Glad to see you post again TXRN2..you have been a great inspiration to me in my journey.

9. Working with stipulations

   backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

   Sure,,I will be happy to e mail you.

10. Abnormal UA

    backtowork replied to iisonu's topic in Career Support

    JZ RN..I felt very much like you a many moons ago..Please remember.."there but for the Grace of God go I." I had to remember this the hard way.

11. Abnormal UA

    backtowork replied to iisonu's topic in Career Support

    The reason they test for creatinine, and a myriad of other things, is that folks who have not found the path to recovery have been known to catheterize themselves and irrigate their own bladders with everything from other's urine, to animal urine, to...

12. Board Ordered Medication Administration Class

    backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

    I will PM you the name of the place in Tyler I went. You will really like the instuctor. I took the med admin class, the documentation class and the juris prudence class. The lady who teaches this is a nurse and a lawyer. She is very thorough with he...

13. Board Ordered Medication Administration Class

    backtowork replied to backtowork's topic in Recovery

    I took my classes in Tyler Texas. Are you a Texas nurse?

14. Will starting in psych put me at a disadvantage in the future?

    backtowork replied to spdaydream's topic in Psychiatric

    ..and I totally agree with modgoth1..lots of nurses on this site who totally prefer wearing their negative knickers instead of their positive panties while they build their monuments of nothing for no one. Stay positive, stay strong, stay focused.

15. Will starting in psych put me at a disadvantage in the future?

    backtowork replied to spdaydream's topic in Psychiatric

    I say..go psych nurse go..too many good nurses have taken the "med surg first" advice only to burn right out and quit nursing. I love the NP idea. I have never worked in a setting yet where a psych nurses skills were not highly valued and sought afte...