Florida IPN 2017

[Nurse2bClark17]

Hey I wanted to post my experience with IPN in Florida because I use this website often and no one ever talks about their TRAGIC experience with IPN anymore. Ugh to start, IPN is a nightmare. I was forced to report myself after a positive drug screen for pre-employment at a hospital. It was freaking migraine medications. I never have taken any narcotics or pills I was having chronic migraines for about a week straight and could not get rid of it. My mom suffers from migraines as well and she thought I'd be a good idea to let me take some of hers to ease the pain. BAD IDEA. I did stop having the reoccuring migraines however, it was still in my system when I drug tested for the job. SMH well fast forward. I had to report myself to IPN. Go see a crabby evaluator/social worker that cost freaking $250 and sit and talk about my life to sum it up. They only gave me 3 choices to choose from, I had to travel 2.5 hours just to go to one that had a resonable price all the others were $350-$400. Thennnnnn I had to take a drug test that cost $70. Which came back NEGATIVE. They then called with more ********. I had to find a Oupatient Program which requires 9 hours a week for 16 weeks OMG that cost $195 per week ($65 per class). I was told this was the "lowest" level of monitoring. UGH It is very expensive and you have to sit there for 3 hours listening to EXTREME addicts talk about drug habits. It is horrible. I am currently on week 6 and Im looking forward to being released to work as a CNA again. This crap has drained my savings account and I had to work elsewhere, luckily I was able to land a job fairly quickly that pays enough to cover my bills. I cant wait to be finish with this crap its draining and expensive.

[catsmeow1972, BSN, RN]

Expensive? yes. Financially draining and soul sucking? Also yes. As I am sure is very clear to you, IPN gives not a whit about you or your recovery, even if there is nothing to recover from. They don't seem to think there is a difference between someone who may have made a bad decision that hurt no one and someone with a real addiction issue. True, there are people that attribute their sobriety to this and other programs like it and that's great. But this is nothing more than a money making/power trip scheme. Too many people get caught up in the web of this for either no reason or for the wrong reasons.

I have never understood the purpose of a person with a mental health issue being slammed with 5 years of drug tests, 12-step meetings (oh that is a whole other thing) and unduly harsh restrictions on work. If all you had to come up with for the "evaluation" (which you don't think for a minute was impartial, do you?) was a couple of hundred bucks, count yourself lucky. I've dealt with this for 3 and a half years now and the total amount spent on all the asinine requirements and unnecessary treatment totals around $50K. That by the way was all cash, no insurance.

As they have stuck you with an apparently unnecessary outpatient program, do not be too surprised if you also get some ridiculous contract too. That fun will also cost you an obscene amount of money. For nurses, the standard seems to be 5 years and the contract seems to be boilerplate and ambiguous enough to allow them to do anything they want. I don't know if it would be any different for CNAs.

There's plenty of people, myself included that have gotten a royal **** job from this outfit. As I said before, some are grateful. Many are not. I for one am counting the days until I can tell them to (insert somewhat vulgar phrase of your choice.)

Read through the Nurses/Recovery section. There are a lot of folks who have been here or are still in this position. They have a lot of good advice, or if nothing else this is a great place to come vent. Believe me, we do understand.