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My probation just started, and I managed to get a job in dialysis in New Hampshire. My license is in Connecticut, and so I'm applying for a reciprocal license. Do you know how much additional time it will take with my license on probation? I know they have to set me up with their own monitoring program. Thank you.

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I can't give controlled meds for a year. I'm barred from home health, travel nursing, and a few other things. My only experience is bedside 4 years in LTC and 3 years in psychiatric nursing. Never been a supervisor, and a lot of the desk jobs want administration experience. The only job I'm sure I can do is dialysis, and I'm striking out with those jobs despite being told that I "interviewed well." I don't know where to go. I live in CT, and am willing to move but do not want to.

Hi, I want to give you some hope, because I also went on this site, feeling terrified, and heartbroken. So rude, telling people to find another profession when they have a less than perfect GPA. Nothing would deter me, so I applied to a program anyway, with my 2.67 GPA. I got into an NP program (not an online one, either) in the Spring semester, with two years experience in my field. They said the essay was the most important part: prove that you are smart with your essay. Maybe they just had an extra spot to fill! That's life, people. Sometimes you get another opportunity to be the good student that you wanted to be before, now that you're older and wiser. Don't give up, by any means, and at least apply!

Yeah, I'm trying to get a PRN job like that, too. I tried to get a job in a psych hospital forever before I got the detox job. Basically, getting the detox job was going to be my way to get a psych hospital job. Turns out, detox jobs are sort of easy to get where I live, but not so much acute psych. I decided that I would get my NP degree, and keep trying for an acute psych job (I have no doubts that this is the field that I want). I figured I could still work as an RN even after graduating, and possibly get an addiction related NP job, that way I wouldn't be overstepping my experience level.

I wasn't asking for reassurance....I can still get experience before starting practice as an NP

I've been working in a detox for a year, and I did the long term facility for a year. Just wondering if detox is good psych experience, and I'm thinking about working with addiction.

I've just started school to get my psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner degree, because I love psych. I'm not sure I have enough experience, however. I currently work on a detox unit in a psychiatric hospital. I may want to do something related to medication assisted addiction management. I'd say only about 25% of them have serious psychiatric disorders requiring medication. It is sad that so many people with psychiatric disorders end up with addiction problems, and I've definitely learned a lot about the detox process. I worked with psychiatric patients in a long term setting before (The unit was legally akin to a nursing home, but mostly for patients with traumatic brain injury and psychiatric disorders where they could not take care of themselves.) I was just there for a year. I don't know if I have enough real psych experience.