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I have been reading these post for a while now. I am approaching my last 5 months and 28 days.  I was given a 2 year sentence to check to check in with affinity. I did have to get an 6500 dollar evaluation and attend IOP for 6 weeks.  I had no medication restrictions. So as of now I only have to get quarterly performance evals done by my employer and check in.  I do not have an addiction I was charged with DUI years ago then I had dismissed with pre-trial diversion.  Giving up alcohol was not really hard as I did not have a dependence on it. The hardest part was being treated like a criminal and jumping through hoops to obtain my license. It was either take the monitoring contract or not obtain my OK to sit for NCLEX. I have not had issues with testing or remembering to check in. I thank god that my job is so understanding with this matter as well.  In my case the program was very aggravating, and it took me and long time to get over it.  When I went to get evaluated I was told by the doctors no matter if I don't have a substance issue it will be two years to be monitored which shows how rigged this system is.  

Nursing20244 said:

It was just the evaluation as I was not recommended for inpatient treatment.  The board makes you do at least 2 years no matter what the doctor recommends. So I had to do outpatient and monitoring which only consist of random drug testing. 

Wait who did you give $6,500 to? I'm shocked at the cost. In my program, it's 800-1000 range 

my state is the same though. They make you do eval but everyone gets 3-5 years regardless

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States are different on the chemical/substance use disorder evals. Some states (only a few, very few actually) have these evals tied into/already a part of, the monitoring program for that state and the prices for these are generally lower on cost and the cost is relatively fixed and less than 2 grand. The danger here is that the eval is tied into/a part of the monitoring program so they are quick to diagnose SUD when somebody may not have one.

Some states have 2, 3, 4, sometimes 5 places that are "Board authorized" that are NOT part of the monitoring program, but the nurse has to go to one of these places and the costs are far from fixed or homogeneous. There is dramatic variance and sometimes they approach 8 or 9 grand for what could be a 2 or 3 day in house evaluation or 2 or 3 day outpatient eval or a simple one day visit. The price varies based on how much testing they do and this is not just drug testing, but one on one interviews with psychiatrists, addictionologists, NPs, etc. These types of evals are still very quick to diagnose a SUD when one isn't present because if they do, then they have a new patient and make more money, but as tough as these are, the first example I gave above is even tougher......for the state monitoring programs that actually do their own evals, the chances of them 'finding or diagnosing" something when it's not there is very high.

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dancinginthedark said:

Wait who did you give $6,500 to? I'm shocked at the cost. In my program, it's 800-1000 range 

my state is the same though. They make you do eval but everyone gets 3-5 years regardless

I had to pay this to the evaluation center it is chose by my board. 

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Healer555 said:

A diversion is case dismissed? 

Yes but board doesn't care about that 

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Steven Thompson said:

States are different on the chemical/substance use disorder evals. Some states (only a few, very few actually) have these evals tied into/already a part of, the monitoring program for that state and the prices for these are generally lower on cost and the cost is relatively fixed and less than 2 grand. The danger here is that the eval is tied into/a part of the monitoring program so they are quick to diagnose SUD when somebody may not have one.

Some states have 2, 3, 4, sometimes 5 places that are "Board authorized" that are NOT part of the monitoring program, but the nurse has to go to one of these places and the costs are far from fixed or homogeneous. There is dramatic variance and sometimes they approach 8 or 9 grand for what could be a 2 or 3 day in house evaluation or 2 or 3 day outpatient eval or a simple one day visit. The price varies based on how much testing they do and this is not just drug testing, but one on one interviews with psychiatrists, addictionologists, NPs, etc. These types of evals are still very quick to diagnose a SUD when one isn't present because if they do, then they have a new patient and make more money, but as tough as these are, the first example I gave above is even tougher......for the state monitoring programs that actually do their own evals, the chances of them 'finding or diagnosing" something when it's not there is very high.

In my state there is only one option for a eval and it's tied into their program. 

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@Steven Thompson

 

Hello, seems you know a lot about monitoring I was in a monitoring program in PA have completed it and want to apply to CRNA school can you help?

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rigatonitacos said:

@Steven Thompson

 

Hello, seems you know a lot about monitoring I was in a monitoring program in PA have completed it and want to apply to CRNA school can you help?

Were You on probation or diversion?

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hppygr8ful said:

I think it's like a no contest

So with this program the charges are not filed and nol processed which means dismissed. So I have no criminal record right now 

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