Getting my License back

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I am a nurse in Pennsylvania and 4 1/2 years ago I stole wasted pain medication at my place of employment. I was involved with PNAP and was caught drinking while on the program. In order to continue PNAP, I needed to start my 3 years all over and complete IOP (intensive outpatient) again, which I was unable to do due to my current job and children. I continued regular outpatient therapy and successfully completed outpatient drug and alcohol counseling and "graduated". I have now been sober for going on 3 years.

My license is currently expired and on probation. Being that it has been so long, how can I go about petitioning the board to reinstate my license without jumping through PNAP hoops? I completed my 3 years of suspension, remained sober after my drinking screw up. Do I just submit all my drug and alcohol counseling records showing I successfully completed their program?

Any advise or suggestions?

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Specializes in ICU.

I feel like they are unfortunately going to make you enroll in another 3 year monitoring contract no matter what.  

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I'm betting you will have to complete a monitoring agreement.  It's ridiculous and sad. Maybe less time? 

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Specializes in ICU nurse in CA. Work in so many hospitals..

DO YOU FIND A JOB YET? I AM ON PROBATION NOW AND STILL LOOKING FOR A RN JOBS IN CA. CAN ANYBODY HELP ME OR TELL ME WHERE I SHOULD APPLP , PLEASE?

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I actually got my medical assistant certificate so I could stay working at the doctors office I'm at. So I'm currently working as a CMA.

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Specializes in ICU nurse in CA. Work in so many hospitals..

You mean that you already get your RN license back ! And now you can work like RN. Am I right?

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Specializes in ICU.

Just to clarify, when you say "reinstate your license without jumping through PNAP hoops" are you asking if they would make you do another eval and go to treatment again or if they would accept your drug and alcohol counseling records? 

 

 

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My paperwork I received from the BON states that my license is suspended for no less than 3 years and then I could petition the board. So my thought was I could petition the board after 3 years and just provide them with my drug and alcohol records.

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So you got caught drinking while being monitored after you got caught diverting narcotics? Then you didn't do what PNAP told you to do after your failed test and your license is suspended?


There is a 0% chance they are going to just let you have your nursing license back because you have been sober for "going on" three years. Your only option is to petition, and of course that petition will fail. 
 

Don't even waste a penny on a lawyer to petition. You lost all your rights when you didn't follow what PNAP told you to do. You are going to continue to look sketchy if you try to get around the system further  

 

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I'm sure after the three years you can repetition to get your license back, but there is a zero percent chance they are going to reinstate your license without another contract with PNAP.  I'm not even sure they would count your drug and alcohol counseling as  the "treatment" that they required when you violated your contract.  

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Nursejackie201 said:

I'm sure after the three years you can repetition to get your license back, but there is a zero percent chance they are going to reinstate your license without another contract with PNAP.  I'm not even sure they would count your drug and alcohol counseling as  the "treatment" that they required when you violated your contract.  

Why would they count treatment that she decided to do on her own that is not what PNAP told her to do? Because she "graduated" from some outpatient therapy sessions? 
 

Sounds like this is exactly who PNAP's program was designed for...

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Specializes in Doctors office/skilled nursing.

Matthew,

Yes, I was coming to this page for some advice but I'm not exactly sure why you are so bitter and just rude. I was coming here for support also for others who have maybe struggled like I have previously. You obviously don't belong on this thread if you don't have a shred of compassion and understanding for addiction. I'm not asking for the BON to magically give me my license back. I am well aware of their will be hoops to jump through. I just wanted to know if there were other options that PNAP.

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