Being monitored but would like to move to another state

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My nursing license was suspended in December. My ex husband reported me when I experienced a painful relapse. I was not agreeable to joining the health professionals service program at that time and my license was suspended. I am able to get my license back if I agree to be monitored for the next few years and follow several other recommendations such as going to meetings, counselor visits, etc. I am not sure if I am going to submit to monitoring or just give up on nursing. I would like to move to a warmer climate for health reasons and am wondering if I can be monitored in another state or if I would need to stay in Minnesota until the monitoring period is over to keep my license. Just wondering if anyone out there has moved to another state while being monitored and how that works.

Hello, I was reviewing everyone's advice and thoughts and I was wondering what you meant when you said "surrendered in leui Of revocation. Usually that gets you put on the OIG list" wouldn't I get put on that list if I surrendered my list of if it was revoked? I think I am at the point where I have decided that i am no longer able to be a nurse, but I do not want my name on the OIG list because I am working as a personal care assistance and I recently applied in dietary at a hospital. I would never do anything to hurt a patient or try to steal from someone. I would hate to see my name on that list saying that i am Unworthy of a job and ensuitating that I am a thief or something worse. Why would they do this to people anyways? I am not an innocent, i messed up, I know that. But I have never heard of another profession doing what nursing does. I wonder if it is because nursing is still mostly a women's profession and we have historically put up with all kinds of different abuses from employers, patients, other nurses etc. It seems that when you apply for a nurses license you are giving your whole mind and body away and you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself.

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Hello, I was reviewing everyone's advice and thoughts and I was wondering what you meant when you said "surrendered in leui Of revocation. Usually that gets you put on the OIG list" wouldn't I get put on that list if I surrendered my list of if it was revoked? I think I am at the point where I have decided that i am no longer able to be a nurse, but I do not want my name on the OIG list because I am working as a personal care assistance and I recently applied in dietary at a hospital. I would never do anything to hurt a patient or try to steal from someone. I would hate to see my name on that list saying that i am Unworthy of a job and ensuitating that I am a thief or something worse. Why would they do this to people anyways? I am not an innocent, i messed up, I know that. But I have never heard of another profession doing what nursing does. I wonder if it is because nursing is still mostly a women's profession and we have historically put up with all kinds of different abuses from employers, patients, other nurses etc. It seems that when you apply for a nurses license you are giving your whole mind and body away and you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself.

Basically, a surrender is always in leui of revelation. So, you are surrendering instead of having your license revoked. If you aren't facing discipline, and you wanted to get rid of your license, you would mark it "inactive" or "retired". So, basically surrender is the same thing, discipline wise, as being revoked. I don't know why they make it different because you can actually try and get your license back after a certain number of years if it has been revoked.

Since you have neither surrendered or been revoked yet, you may not he on the OIG list yet. They can put you on it if you have been suspended, but to my knowledge it is not mandatory like it is with a suspension or revocation. So, you may not have an issue working in something like dietary until your license is surrendered or revoked.

I agree it is seriously crappy. And to be honest, I at first only agreed to monitoring because I did not want to get on the OIG list...initially I wanted to surrender, but my inability to find a sustainable job outside of a healthcare facility is what convinced me to be monitored.

A call to your BON may be in order to sort out for certain if you would be placed on the OIG list if you surrendered. Everything else here is pretty much conjecture and your BON or your monitoring contact would be the best one to guide you.

I'm so sorry you are going thru this. It's ridiculous that we can't even work outside of patient care in these facilities if you get on the OIG. The punishment does not fit our crimes, in my opinion.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Women's Health, LTC.

Contact the OIG and find out what will place you there. If I'm not mistaken, there is some info on their website.

Good luck to you!

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I am currently going through a similar situation and hoping to appeal to TBON. My license was revoked in MO. Do I understand you correctly that I will not have to take boards again though as I was preparing myself for that as well?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Women's Health, LTC.

No, you will not have to sit for the NCLEX again, at least here in TX.

I am taking my refresher course now.

Good luck!

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Specializes in Psych.

Did you ever find out if you can move and have a different state monitor you? I am in Michigan's HPRP program. I had a license in AZ and MI.  Originally this whole debacle occurred in AZ and I was able to move into MI monitoring program because I already had a license in this state. Michigan allows me to work as a travel nurse only within the state of Michigan but there aren't many jobs here for Psychiatric nurses. I am looking to apply and be monitored by a different state. We will see...

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You should ask your board of nursing. Then ask the board of the state you want to relocate to. Some states will honor the time served, but others will make you start over. My state also makes sure that if you relocate, the new state gives you the same contract length. It's 5 years here, and I'm moving to a state where I'd have 3 years. However, they will honor the time I've already spent in the program.

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No. That's OK. I got out of nursing and went into another field and that was the best decision for me.

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sometimes it's just best to try something else. I realized there is a whole big word out there and I could do other things and be a lot happier. so that's what I did. 

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
nolongeranurse said:

sometimes it's just best to try something else. I realized there is a whole big word out there and I could do other things and be a lot happier. so that's what I did. 

What are you doing now? It's a financial reason I don't leave nursing 

 

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well, a lot has happened in the last few years. Before I relapsed, I notice a dramatic change in my hearing. This was causing a lot of problems in my life and looking back I can see that I wasn't coping well with that, and it probably had a lot to do with my divorce and my relapse. Well- Within a year from when I first wrote this first entry, I was deaf. I was working as a PCA and as a  customer service rep and I was making a living and it wasn't too bad actually, but my hearing continued to decline so when covid started I lost my job and went on unemployment and I was getting more money a week than I was when I was working fulltime as a nurse -but I couldn't hear so it sucked and I  couldn't even really do any kind of job interview at the time. Anyways, I filed for disability, and I got that within a few weeks. (I get about 2200.00 a month which isn't good but it's not the worse. I can make ends meet OK.) At the end of 2020, I got my first cochlear implant and then I got the second one 6 months later- so now I can hear again- so I got in touch with Vocational rehab and got funding to go back to college. I decided to go for cybersecurity because they make good money.  I graduate in the Spring and I don't think I will have any problems finding a job.  I really enjoy computers and it hasn't been nearly as hard as I thought it would be.  I realized that if you can get through nursing school- you can get through anything. I also work part time as a janitor which I enjoy- I like cleaning and my boss is really nice. So overall I have been very lucky. My hearing is still not the best but at least I can hear. As far as my nursing license went-it just expired. I never was put on the OIG list. I haven't had problems finding a job. No one has ever even asked me why I quit nursing and if they did, I have no problem telling them my story. If I would have stayed in nursing, I would have always been ashamed, and the monitoring would not have been good for me. I was going through a tough time at first and I was just not able to cope with a monitoring plan and treatment and nurses helping nurses meeting. I am not putting that down- I have went through all that before and it can be very helpful. I just wasn't at that place in my life where I needed or wanted that . I did see a counselor and that helped but there was no way that I was in the mood to deal with drug rehab or assessments and monitoring and getting signed off papers from everyone I knew saying that I was sober. I am a fairly private person and I really do not like having to talk about myself to my physician and my boss and everyone at AA. I went through a difficult time. Everything changed. Things were not too good at one time, but things got better. Thats the way life is. It changes. I am glad I did what I felt I needed to do and that was getting out of a toxic work environment in a job no longer fed my soul. Nursing was good for me at one time but then I needed something different and that's what I did. 

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