A friends husband is a nurse that was fired from a hospital ICU for irregularities in the accounting of narcotic pain meds while he was on duty. He had a cover story that he quit due to being burned out from nursing and wanted to take a break from a hospital setting.
This sounded suspicious as he was accepted and was getting ready to start CRNA school in a few months. I looked up his license status on the state BON website and it shows him suspended. Reading the documents from the BON, he refused to reply to the charges against him and the BON indefinitely suspended his license.
Come to find out that he's now working at a local dialysis clinic. Researching this forum and other sites, it seems that dialysis clinics hire nurses with suspended licenses due to drug issues. I don't know in what capacity he works there as he clearly can't exercise the privileges of his nursing license.
How common is it for nurses with drug and/or licensure issues work in dialysis clinics?
When in the military, I once worked with a coworker who made a statement to the effect that she had a "tumor". Turned out that the "tumor" was the pregnancy she caught from her adulterous affair that was certainly no secret to anybody. Sooner or later, he will probably divulge more information.
From whom? You? By your own admission you have no idea in what capacity he is working.
In my opinion, unless you know for a fact he is working as a nurse, this is no concern of yours.
He was suspended by the state BON. It's on their public license lookup.
2 minutes ago, caliotter3 said:
When in the military, I once worked with a coworker who made a statement to the effect that she had a "tumor". Turned out that the "tumor" was the pregnancy she caught from her adulterous affair that was certainly no secret to anybody. Sooner or later, he will probably divulge more information.
No, no licensure needed. There is a certification that they need to achieve by 18 months.
That being said, your comment of dialysis being a haven for nurses with drug issues is offensive. I have 1 out of the 9 staff nurses and 0 of the 4 management/charge level nurses that have ever been in a recovery program. That aside, people make mistakes, and should be commended for their journey of recovery. It's not for the faint of heart.
Your comments sound more like that of a nosey gossip monger, only looking to see the dirty laundry on your neighbor. I pray this isn't the case. A word to the wise: karma is all knowing, and what you put out, comes back to you, 100 fold. Someday, this could be you or a loved one, it just takes 1 incident on the wrong day. Would you seriously want friends and neighbors treating you, or them, this way? Some food for thought.
No, no licensure needed. There is a certification that they need to achieve by 18 months.
That being said, your comment of dialysis being a haven for nurses with drug issues is offensive. I have 1 out of the 9 staff nurses and 0 of the 4 management/charge level nurses that have ever been in a recovery program. That aside, people make mistakes, and should be commended for their journey of recovery. It's not for the faint of heart.
Your comments sound more like that of a nosey gossip monger, only looking to see the dirty laundry on your neighbor. I pray this isn't the case. A word to the wise: karma is all knowing, and what you put out, comes back to you, 100 fold. Someday, this could be you or a loved one, it just takes 1 incident on the wrong day. Would you seriously want their friends and neighbors treating them this way? Some food for thought.
I already know the "dirty laundry". It's public knowledge. I was asking if dialysis is commonly used by nurses with issues to chill out till they either recover or get their license back.
Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
12 minutes ago, CoThG said:
I'm not trying to keep him from earning a living. You're missing the point of my OP.
If he does not have a nursing license, he quite simply cannot work as an RN.
Dialysis is going to be an environment where many with stipulations (not suspended/revoked licenses) find their stipulations are manageable. Does that make it a "haven"? No. It means their application may not go directly into the "round file".
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
9 minutes ago, CoThG said:
You're missing the point of my OP.
With all due respect, CoThG, we need to approach such subjects with a little more savoir faire.
Specifically identifying certain individuals who have acted unscrupulously and then associating them with gaining employment in a specific professional area is bound to elicit negative responses.
Manipulating our media with a certain amount of generic vagueness can work to our advantage when seeking information and we can more successfully achieve our desired outcome.
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From whom? You? By your own admission you have no idea in what capacity he is working.
In my opinion, unless you know for a fact he is working as a nurse, this is no concern of yours.