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9-10 months left

Hi everyone.

I have 9-10 months left of probation. All has been well in terms of my sobriety. I had my first job for awhile but for my mental health I couldn't stay there. Every nurse talked about my probation and would continually put me down for it.

Okay so I found a great job! However, it is sketchy af. The way they handle meds going missing(we had a clipboard/travel company nurse who we think stole 2mg of Ativan and 16mg of buprenorphine but the manager brushed it under the rug. There should have been drug testing done for everyone involved but there wasn't. There was no investigation actually. ....there is a lot at this facility that I believe would not be okay with the board of nursing actually. In fact, I said I couldn't do overtime without the approval of the BON and they said "we don't report the hours you work so they won't know" ummmm I still said no I'm sorry I cannot. I have to protect my license with my life and I've worked way too hard 😅

I don't want to throw them under the bus, but I also don't know if I can stay here. Would it be frowned upon to find a third job while in monitoring? I could technically slide by and do my 3 12's and be done fairly quickly. I feel like 9-10 months will fly by. BUT I also would like to find somewhere that isn't putting mine, and let's be honest, everyone else's licenses at stake with how they run things.

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Only you can decide on quitting that job or getting another one or not working at all for 9 months. Your call, BUT I can tell you this, the BON and your monitoring program don't care if you have had 4 jobs in monitoring, but they usually do care that you work somewhere. The BON and monitoring programs are not stupid. They know that nurses in monitoring programs and with restrictions and/or probation and chrck in requirements and testing requirements often have to settle and get stuck with shi%%y jobs while in monitoring programs and rotate jobs a bit. Be sure your monitoring program doesn't require a minimum amount of years required to work while in monitoring. Many states require 3 years of working as a nurse during that 5 years of monitoring. Be dang sure you have met that requirement if it exists. Also, be sure you don't have a rule in your monitoring program that states you have to be employed at the time of discharge/graduation. Some monitoring programs require that you are employed at the time of your graduation. If you are financially able and you don't have the work requirements in your monitoring program as listed above, then simply quitting and chilling out for 9 months might be an option IF financially doable. Otherwise, if you decide that job isn't doable for another 9 months, but you need to work or have to work based on monitoring requirements or finances, then find another job Before you quit your current one. Also, be 100 percent SURE you actually have that other job before you quit. That means.....don't let HR pull a fast one over on you and you are being told for 4 weeks by nursing that you have the job only to be told 3 days before you are supposed to start that human resources has rejected you, and now you are without any job.

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