Mental Health NP clinicals

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If you are in an alternate discipline program and it’s time for your MH NP clinicals can you do them? They can be completely  with a social worker and can be in a rehab facility. 

Oh wow maybe I’ll have the same luck. Thanks for sharing!

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From a pure recovery standpoint and not from a career, BON, or job standpoint, but purely recovery. The odds are absolutely overwhelming that you use again in some form or fashion without completing IOP. The data and numbers just are overwhelming and it's why monitoring/assistance programs require it. Even if completely changing job fields and leaving nursing and your issue was with something you had access to in the hospital, the odds are overwhelming that substance issue/addiction is switched to another form of addiction and it doesnt even have to be substances. 

An old saying in recovery...."I am moving from NYC to Chicago and leaving my addiction behind in this dang city"! The problem is.....when you move to Chicago, you take yourself with you. If....again.....If you have an addiction, it does not care that you change career fields. It cleverly can and usually morphs into something else, be it food, gambling, sex, video games, etc. Without IOP, the odds are very, very high.

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