Another Casualty of "Recovery"

[SpankedInPittsburgh]

Tonight I heard another sad tale of a Nurses life thrown into disarray by the actions of a callous, faceless and imbecilic representative of the Nazi state of monitoring land. This poor guy completed a couple years of the program and was working the swing shift at a nursing home. No nurse showed up to relieve him at midnight. He was given the choice of deserting the patients in his care or violating his monitoring contract as he was the only nurse there without supervision. The other nurses on his shift left him there even though they knew his situation. He tried to call his supervisors but nobody would relieve him. This being the case he stayed and cared for his patients until he was relieved in the morning. The caring folks from PNAP found out and violated his contract. Basically they made him start all over again. He can't work as a nurse again until he does 90 in 90 again. The time on his contract starts from day one. There are no allegations of drinking or drugging it was just that there wasn't a supervisor on sight. This is a hard-working nurse who supports a family. Merry Christmas from the caring professionals at PNAP. I want to throw up. Just when I think I can't be more disgusted with these cretins I am

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

I totally agree!!! However, this is a guy that was working extra shifts at a nursing home to support his family & now he doesn't even have that. No way he can fund a legal battle against the state. He's screwed and there but for the grace of God go many of us

[rn1965, ADN]

He did not prevail with his monitors. He took a job out of nursing and got off the carousel

Sad...we lost a possibly great nurse to this. It must have been a very difficult decision for him to leave nursing.

[catsmeow1972, BSN, RN]

Then there are those who stay and tolerate this torture because we don't know how to do anything else and don't have the resources to go back to school, therefore we are something of a captive audience and the vultures that run these programs know this.

Me personally, I still love the aspect of caring for others and I will continue to do so in spite of the way I've been treated. I don't know how to do anything else and don't want to.

That being said, if this horror show has taught me anything (yes folks, Cats is going to admit to having learned something. Mark it on your calendar!) it's to make darn sure I have a life outside of nursing. My entire existence was wrapped up in my career and when that went down the drain due to my psych issues, I had nothing left. No hobbies, no friends, no nothing.

I will still never say this has made my life even remotely better because even though I've learned that one thing, the overwhelming damage to my family, both financial and relationship wise far supersedes that.

[Wizard 1]

Then there are those who stay and tolerate this torture because we don't know how to do anything else and don't have the resources to go back to school, therefore we are something of a captive audience and the vultures that run these programs know this.

Me personally, I still love the aspect of caring for others and I will continue to do so in spite of the way I've been treated. I don't know how to do anything else and don't want to.

That being said, if this horror show has taught me anything (yes folks, Cats is going to admit to having learned something. Mark it on your calendar!) it's to make darn sure I have a life outside of nursing. My entire existence was wrapped up in my career and when that went down the drain due to my psych issues, I had nothing left. No hobbies, no friends, no nothing.

I will still never say this has made my life even remotely better because even though I've learned that one thing, the overwhelming damage to my family, both financial and relationship wise far supersedes that.

I learned a hard lesson about not having anything else in my life except nursing. Thanks for sharing yours.

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

I agree!!!! Before my DUI I regularly worked 50-60 hours a week. When I wasn't working I was doing clinical hours or studying for my DNP. When I wasn't doing that I was with my girlfriend at the time who was from (you guessed it) from the ER. The lady I dated before that was from my DNP class. My entire life was wrapped up in being a nurse. The one thing this has done for me is to give me some perspective. I have no desire to return to my old job even though I loved being an ER Nurse. It is amazing the people you knew for years would relish in your anguish but looking back on it that's exactly what happens in many nurse - nurse interactions. When I'm done with this Nursing will be a job and not a life. I'll do my job but it won't take over my life. I think this new perspective is healthy and look forward to keeping it for the rest of my working life.