Blast from the past!

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

So I was working in my garage and came across a file box that had all my monitoring paperwork for five years in it. I finished the program in 2007 and boxed all that paper up and stored with a shred date of 2014. So guess what I did today that's right I shredded it all. Very freeing experience.

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Specializes in pediatrics; PICU; NICU.

I finished my program in 2009 & recently shredded al the documents, too.

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I finished 4/18/2018 and had a huge bonfire with all that paperwork a month later. 

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Doh! Am I the only one that saved mine?? ?‍♂️ ? (2008-2012) So sad. It’s my reminder though. 
congrats to all who finished!! ❤️

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I still find a stray receipt here and there. 

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
2 hours ago, dagobah said:

Doh! Am I the only one that saved mine?? ?‍♂️ ? (2008-2012) So sad. It’s my reminder though. 
congrats to all who finished!! ❤️

You should keep those papers for a least 7 years as that is the amount of time that can pass for an IRS Audit. It may not be true for others but I deducted a large portion of the cost from my taxes due to it being a required a medical expense!

Hppy

 

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Specializes in OR.

The most satisfying ‘thunk’ ever was me dropping all that garbage into the trash can. I had dragged those two file boxes through several moves as I had to go where I could find employment (that’s what happens when your only nursing experience is highly specialized and you pretty much suck at every other type.) I am now a year and a half past finishing and still at the job that gave me a chance about 6 months prior to finishing. I knew I was in a good place when I asked my manager ‘do you know why I’m saddled with this thing? She said no and don’t need to.

I went through a horror show of being lied to, abused, screamed at (yes, screamed at) and aside from the psych issues that got me there, a great case of PTSD. I spent time drawing disability (which getting is it’s own hellscape.) Everytime I had to do paperwork related to that that involved going through those boxes I would get upset. I would sit and read those so-called ‘evaluations’ with all the lies and straight up BS that was written to justify parting me from A LOT of money, not to mention the one evaluator that sent me a bunch of someone else’s records. I finally came to the conclusion that it was really not healthy or helpful to be reading that crap.

I waved bye bye as the trash truck took it all away.***

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