Caught diverting,admitted to it, have a lawyer. "Complaiance meeting " is Jan 30th. Recruiters won't assit with job placement. Hospitals won't hire, wehter I explain to them or not. Will any one hire as long as it's A "grey undetermined " area.
Got a decent job offer then rejected so psychologically depressed..
Aside from me admitting guilt to personal use narcotic diversio , the key "complaints listed" are undocumented waste and giving a pain med to early, and the having a narcotic in my pocket which I had to hand off to another nurse due to changing of pt assignment.
I still have no idea what she did with it, as we should of wasted it....
Neither I nor the nurse who wasted pressed thr "confirm waste " button which honestly why the hell is it there. Nor did pharmacy or charge or manager ever bring the issue up...Until after termination via the submitted info to BON.
Been reading stories and they are all so depressing, it's like why bother ,go do something else.
HPRP program may be required which costs..get this 20k a year for 1-3 years. Sooo. 20 ***ing thousand, I could go to a luxurie inpatient rehab for that amount.
I no longer have any desire for drugs and actually avoided giving them at my last job. I found my root cause analysis.
It's never to late or early to begin HPRP on your own. A person can choose to stay in HPRP for 1 years or 2 or 3 After their consent order is done just to ensure they are safe to themselves. A person can have one drink of alcohol in their lifetime and be in no trouble with the Board at all, but be worried because they had 2 alcoholic parents, so the nurse volunteers for a year of HPRP, or 2, or 3, etc. I have no idea when you compliance is,but if it's soon, I would hold off on HPRP until the meeting. I would Not let 6 or 8 or 12 months go by to start HPRP though. 2 weeks is no big deal.
Id ask your lawyer. Maybe she's thinking you can avoid hprp? If you want to leave nursing you could voluntarily surrender your license and then start anew.
It's never to late or early to begin HPRP on your own. A person can choose to stay in HPRP for 1 years or 2 or 3 After their consent order is done just to ensure they are safe to themselves. A person can have one drink of alcohol in their lifetime and be in no trouble with the Board at all, but be worried because they had 2 alcoholic parents, so the nurse volunteers for a year of HPRP, or 2, or 3, etc. I have no idea when you compliance is,but if it's soon, I would hold off on HPRP until the meeting. I would Not let 6 or 8 or 12 months go by to start HPRP though. 2 weeks is no big deal.
I can't imagine a nurse with no sud volunteering for a monitoring agreement if they neither had a SUD nor has to to keep their license.
Never voluntary surrender your license.....EVER. read the other posts about OIG list and what happens. A surrendered license is a revoked license. Any lawyer or recovery person who's been around will tell you to Never Surrender your License....EVER. if you choose to leave nursing, do it through your lawyer. Your lawyer can get the BON to Suspend your license Indefinitely instead of Revoking it or you Sirrendering it which keeps you off the OIG list. Want to read horror stories? Scroll through this Board and go online and Google nurse regrets about Surrendering. With a savvy attorney, the license is suspended Indefinitely until you choose to reapply and do a monitoring program and this is how you leave nursing. You simply walk away without reapplying and leave it in Suspended Status and you avoid the OIG list. Get on the OIG list and it effects far more than Healthcare careers. It can effect 80 percent of any job over the 5 to 7 year ban for being on it.
As for HPRP, you admitted it at work. Trust me, your going if you want to keep your license. Michigan went to 5 years for drug diversion at work cases in September of 2024 for all newbies and New Mexico did the same in September and Wyoming followed in October. The lawyer can hopefully get the monitoring agreement shortened, but hard to do. Getting no monitoring when a nurse already admits it is possible, but I've never heard of it
Apparently I can't gl into dental hygiene if I surrender my license. I had SUD,I no longer have any desire for drugs or impulse to diverting for the last year of nursing.
My meeting is Jan 30th. so I choose how long I'm in monitoring not then if I go in voluntarily?
Apparently I can't gl into dental hygiene if I surrender my license. I had SUD,I no longer have any desire for drugs or impulse to diverting for the last year of nursing.
My meeting is Jan 30th. so I choose how long I'm in monitoring not then if I go in voluntarily?
Ask your lawyer about going into monitoring. If you have to do it get it over with but if you can avoid it..... it's worse than I thought it would be and I don't even have a SUD.
One thing to keep in mind and an option. If you don't want to do nursing and you are sure of it, ask your lawyer for negotiating the BON Suspend your license Without Stay. This way, you are Not bound by a consent agreement and when they do this, the order will say your license is suspended and you can reapply for reinstatement in 1 or 2 or 3 years, etc. If you don't want to do nursing you are golden. You can simply walk away, this avoids the OIG list, and you avoid monitoring and move on.
If they Suspend your License With Stay, this puts you under consent order and it means you have have to do monitoring agreement and if you then fail to complete it the BON revokes your license and you go on the OIG list which is a disaster for other career options. So, if you are certain nursing isn't an option and you want out, a Suspended License is the golden ticket. You Never want it Revoked or Surrendered because you may think you are walking away but the OIG list that soon follows can ruin other career transition options
I can't imagine a nurse with no sud volunteering for a monitoring agreement if they neither had a SUD nor has to to keep their license.
Im in a Midwestern State, we have 29 nurses right now in our monitoring program voluntarily according to my Peer Support Counselor who is one of the Group leaders approved by the BON and Monitoring program. Most of them are there not for SUD, but for mental health issues/PTSD/trauma history
Im in a Midwestern State, we have 29 nurses right now in our monitoring program voluntarily according to my Peer Support Counselor who is one of the Group leaders approved by the BON and Monitoring program. Most of them are there not for SUD, but for mental health issues/PTSD/trauma history
I was referring to your comment about just signing up because a person had 2 alcoholic parents. Yes there are people with mental health issues in for a monitoring agreement and I'm here for a SUD I don't have and I'm considered voluntary which is not the correct term. I'm here to keep my license. Maybe they are truly voluntary I'm not and many of us aren't.
In my state voluntary means Non Board Referred. Board Referred is someone like me who has to be in monitoring to keep license. Non-Board Referred is someone who can simply walk away from monitoring and they don't have a consent order or any issues with the BON
In my state voluntary means Non Board Referred. Board Referred is someone like me who has to be in monitoring to keep license. Non-Board Referred is someone who can simply walk away from monitoring and they don't have a consent order or any issues with the BON
It's the same for me but that's not really what voluntary means to most people. Voluntary wire a monitoring program is very misleading.
One thing to keep in mind and an option. If you don't want to do nursing and you are sure of it, ask your lawyer for negotiating the BON Suspend your license Without Stay. This way, you are Not bound by a consent agreement and when they do this, the order will say your license is suspended and you can reapply for reinstatement in 1 or 2 or 3 years, etc. If you don't want to do nursing you are golden. You can simply walk away, this avoids the OIG list, and you avoid monitoring and move on.
If they Suspend your License With Stay, this puts you under consent order and it means you have have to do monitoring agreement and if you then fail to complete it the BON revokes your license and you go on the OIG list which is a disaster for other career options. So, if you are certain nursing isn't an option and you want out, a Suspended License is the golden ticket. You Never want it Revoked or Surrendered because you may think you are walking away but the OIG list that soon follows can ruin other career transition options
I'm not sure, so " with stay" does not or does include mandated monitoring. I want the ability to purse another Healthcare field...so I don't want on this oig list ..
NurseJackie69
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It's never to late or early to begin HPRP on your own. A person can choose to stay in HPRP for 1 years or 2 or 3 After their consent order is done just to ensure they are safe to themselves. A person can have one drink of alcohol in their lifetime and be in no trouble with the Board at all, but be worried because they had 2 alcoholic parents, so the nurse volunteers for a year of HPRP, or 2, or 3, etc. I have no idea when you compliance is,but if it's soon, I would hold off on HPRP until the meeting. I would Not let 6 or 8 or 12 months go by to start HPRP though. 2 weeks is no big deal.