licensure reistatement LPN/Florida

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To get started I was a Licensed Practical Nurse at the time I suffered cardiac arrest with the complication of anoxia brain injury in 2008. I have done cognitive behavior therapy in which I have improved well enough to want to return to work. However I have to have my license reinstated so I think. I did not surrender my license to my knowledge. I was just placed on disability and at the time was not able to maintain my CEU's related to the brain injury. It was difficult to comprehend sentences to which I would read. I have reached out to Florida Board of Nursing but have not had a reply. The road to recovery was extremely challenging. Eight months after the injury my family and I moved out of state with little success for therapy to be provided.

After four years we moved again to Illinois were I was able to start cognitive therapy several days a week for four years. It helped me tremendously. I've had great success and I know feel I am ready to return to work as an LPN. I however have not found any information on the web concerning a disabled licensed practical nurse wanting to return to work and the avenues one must take in order for this to happen. I surely can not afford an attorney or even know If one is necessary at this point. I did have short term memory loss witch was very frustrating for me and my family at times. Also being able to read but not comprehend was just insult to injury. This was the main reason for not being able to keep up with my license. Also just naive to the fact that I could have put a hold on it. I sometimes would not be able to find my vehicle after going into a doctors appointment. It was very difficult to cook or maintain simple tasks that we all take for granted. such as leaving the water run after brushing my teeth or the car door left open or even leaving it running.

Many of the doctors I would come in contact with were not very excepting to me being disabled except for the neurologists the primary care and cardiologist thought I should return straight back to work. But let me say this by know means was I ready I new something was very wrong even though when you looked at me or had a conversation with me I seemed competent to return to work. The cardiac arrest was significant to say the least I was in my car when I stopped breathing thankfully my significant other was driving me at the time. Just before loosing consciousness I requested she take me to the hospital that I worked at. From that point on my heart had stopped. She not being a nurse had no idea I was in cardiac arrest. she even told me she stopped at a red light on the way to the hospital. Once there at the ER entrance she said they immediately started CPR on the pavement until I was able to be placed on a gurney and brought into a trauma room. CPR was done intermittently for fourty five minutes. I was in and out of ventricular fibrillation in between. I know that hospital protocol is once you have done CPR for twenty minutes the code blue is called off. I am not sure why they kept going but I am very grateful and so is my family. It has not been a good experience being on disability that much I can tell you. From doctors to nurses and all in between no one likes to be kind to you if they know your on disability and can walk and talk, write, or see what's in front of you. One of my doctors said I considered "walking wounded" no apparent physical abnormalities. People should be more understanding but its not always a nice planet we live on.