Completed VA HPMP... Have Questions? Let me know!

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I completed VA-HPMP 5 year monitoring program. If anyone has any questions or just need to talk or vent let me know. It is a tedious program and often times you can do everything right and things still pop up and you just gotta keep on the course and get to the end. Good luck and give a shout if you need any advice or info!!

smc26448 said:

Hello all!

I was reported for being intoxicated on alcohol at work. I will definitely have to join because I was very intoxicated where I passed out at my desk. I'm deciding between switching careers or doing the program though board hasn't contacted me yet. If I do the program, What type of nurse jobs accept you with the restrictions on your license? I don't want to waste time joining if I will never find a job. I only have NICU and OutPatient Ortho experience so not sure I'd get hired anywhere anyway. Also is the testing site like a labcorps or quest? Can I get through the whole program doing a non nursing position or is that a requirement? 
 

thank you ! 

The test sites vary on location.  Dialysis places are full of nurses who have been given a monitoring agreement.  That's not the only job you can get though. 

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Hello! I am a health professional from a different field, but this was the only place I could find discussing Virginia's HPMP. I hope it is OK that I ask a question here! 

I am in the process of starting the program, but I do not know much about it. My case does involve substance use secondary to a certain phase of a mental illness, although there is no substance use when well. I am sure they will test for substances, but will they mandate anything on the mental health side? Are there any extra steps they may require me to take with regard to psychiatric treatment or therapy that are outside of regular appointments? I do have a history of treatment non-adherence that is documented in the report commissioned by the Department of Healthcare Professions (although I am much more adherent now). The report to my board was a mandated report from a psychiatric hospital admission, if that helps narrow down potential consequences. 

Thank you for your time!

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I know this is an older thread but did anyone notice around the Holidays that's testing is taking longer to report results than usual? 

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Abgirl said:

I know this is an older thread but did anyone notice around the Holidays that's testing is taking longer to report results than usual? 

I'm not in Virginia but that's normal here. Labs are closed during holidays but I've had it take 2 weeks a few times. 

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Thank you Healer, it's just so frustrating knowing lives count on these tests. Anyway, Happy Holidays!

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Abgirl said:

Thank you Healer, it's just so frustrating knowing lives count on these tests. Anyway, Happy Holidays!

It is. I have taken nothing but worry about a false positive. Happy holidays.  

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Always takes long during Holidays. Just like nurses at hospitals taking off work to be with family, same for lab workers, postal workers, electricians, and most other professions. Lab results from drug testing aren't just slow, so are CT Scans, X Ray Results, outpatient primary care routine labs on patients, etc. Very normal. Heck, the normal mail is slower. 

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Healer555 said:

Thank you for replying.  I'm in a different state. We were told they close our file 4 years after we are done monitoring.  Do you have the same? I wonder what happens in the 4 years before our file is closed.  Congratulations on finishing and your sobriety. 

It's closed immediately they do not and can't contact you. You no longer do anything or check in the app will not work 

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Abgirl said:

Thank you Healer, it's just so frustrating knowing lives count on these tests. Anyway, Happy Holidays!

What's worse is the lab resulting it as positive on Christmas Eve but your CM being off until the day after Christmas and being unable to review it/change it to "prescription positive". Longest Christmas of my life.😅

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I see recovery trek finally debited the money from my account but still no result.  Does the case manager put in the results themselves? Usually my results are in same time money is taken out. I know I have to be negative but the stress of not seeing a result drives me crazy. 

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Abgirl said:

I see recovery trek finally debited the money from my account but still no result.  Does the case manager put in the results themselves? Usually my results are in same time money is taken out. I know I have to be negative but the stress of not seeing a result drives me crazy. 

Perhaps they debited your account to do the test but the person who enters the results hasn't done so yet. I stopped checking my results.  I still worry but don't check. 

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Healer 555,

After this go round  I plan to not check it anymore. Not worth the stress. Just my OCD wanting everything to align, etc. just going to chill from this point forward. Thanks for response. 🙂

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