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Hello all,

Here I am waiting for my contract as a result from my fall from grace two years ago still but trying to plan for the future. Our little ones are going to be 4 and 8 and we are looking into a disney trip next year in October. I know its coming and I can imagine what my duties will be (meetings/checking in/drug tests), how do you take vacation during this? I imagine there are first labs near disney and I'm sure its a mountain of paperwork. Is it possible?

thank you!

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In California, which also uses first lab, as long as you won't be missing any nurse support group meetings, you just send your First Lab case manager an email at least 14 days in advance letting them know where you'll be, and they send you a list of test sites you can go to if you get called. Also make sure you take a few COC forms with you.

Now if you plan on taking a longer trip, say 1 or 2 weeks where you know you'll be missing your nurse support group, you have to get permission from your board monitor first and they usually require you to fax some sort of itinerary to them to prove you're actually going on said trip. This is in addition to notifying First Lab.

Travel within the country usually isn't too big a hassle (the hardest part is having the money to do so with everything you're paying for with the board). Travel out of the country, I hear, is where it starts to get tricky.

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Thank you! I have no idea when my contract will come down, the board is at least 2.5 years behind for those of us that have gone inactive. I want to find a way to live normally and rise above this, making it into a positive experience if possible.

That sounds fairly manageable.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Addiction, Peer Support.

Unless things have changed drastically, travel isn't usually an issue, seemed to be fairly easy actually.

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