New grad monitoring

[coffeemanic]

Hi everyone. This is my first post on here because I am scared beyond belief and unsure what to do or where to go to help. I hope that I don't receive any criticism or judgement for what I say.

Back in 2012, I was 18 and was charged with a DUI. I attended over 6 months of rehab, got counseling, and finally got myself back on track with my life and it went down to a reckless driving. I am still currently attending therapy just so that I never get to that point again. Fast forward to now, I am about to be 24 and just graduated nursing school after YEARS of hard work. Now, the BON is asking me to do monitoring daily (the 4am check-ins), two AA meetings a week, an additional nurse support group meeting, and getting a sponsor to do evals on me. All of this for a whole year. I felt like this came out of nowhere and no one warned me this would happen. I am so worried about my future job prospects and what is going to happen. I still haven't taken my NCLEX..

Is there anything I can do to appeal this? I have changed so much as a person from that careless, wreckless 18 year old and it honestly breaks my heart that the BON is making me do all this because I worked so hard to get here

If anyone has any advice, input, suggestions, please, please let me know. Thank you all so much for your time.

[catsmeow1972, BSN, RN]

For starters, congrats on your graduation!

Second, if what the BON is telling you to do is only for a year and remains confidential and has no impact on your search for a job (no stipulations on what you can do) than suck it up and do it. From the perspective of those of us who for a myriad of reasons have been hammered with as much as 5 years of this garbage, with contracts detailing all of the above as well as restrictions on when, where and what we can do for work, along with many having public discipline, you are getting off easy.

Your are doing what you know you need to do so that you don't get to the place you were once at. Do thier tasks for the year, check off thier boxes, get it over with and put it behind you. Continue to do what you know really helps you.

Acknowledging that you are not the same person you were then and that you continue to take steps to not go back to being that person is part of what will make you an asset to the nursing profession.

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

Yeah Cats is right. Give these vultures their pound of flesh and get on with your life. It could be much, much work!!!

[Recovering_RN]

Yep, sorry, I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you are VERY lucky to be offered just one year! The rest of us on this site are doing all those things, the daily check in, multiple (mine is 4) AA meetings a week, working with a sponsor, monthly summary paperwork to send in, quarterly reports to have our managers at work sign and submit, and of course random drug testing, which tends always to be on a day when we absolutely have no free time (but of course we make it), AND WE ARE DOING THIS FOR THREE TO FIVE YEARS!! Plus we all started with either inpatient or intensive outpatient therapy last lasted at least a couple of months.

So yeah, take the year and feel grateful.