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    Applying for Licensure in Recovery

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to katie457's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Here when you first get in the program you have to do 90 in 90 (I know you already did this but they may make you repeat) not return / start work until you get permission (3-6 months) and then have...
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    Insubordination

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Trickyp713's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Nice Picture. Get a new job. Where you are at sounds like
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    Applying for Licensure in Recovery

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to katie457's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I hope they leave you alone but I'm in a weekly nurse support group with one nurse who has 10 documented years of recovery and another who has 6. Both got stuck in the same meat grinder as everybody...
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    RN in IPN waiting for HR

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Tuts00RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I got very lucky. I have a government job and a union contract to protect me. I believe that I work in the only place in my town that wouldn't have fired me after getting into a monitoring program....
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    Does a Pyxis have the capability to restrict Narcotics to a user?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Jslimp22's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah I'm sure that this can be done. However, you have to wonder if having other nurses pass all your narcs over an extended period of time is a good idea. I'm a nurse in a monitoring program and...
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    "Recovery" and public shaming

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to noctanol's topic in Nurses Recovery

    A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to
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    "Recovery" and public shaming

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to noctanol's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ok. Protecting the Public? It is the BON's duty to protect the public from unsafe nurses. To me this is an unarguable point as the public has a right to have a competent, sober member of our...
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    Need advice from my fellow nurses in recovery!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I actually think that's true. If I beat up my significant other would the BON get involved or would they make me do rehab even if I did it stone-cold sober? What about verbally abusing patients or...
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    Hope

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Lad345's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It does get better but it does so in spite of the scarlet letters handed out and the requirements of the program. It's funny that to make your life better you have do so by negotiating the many...
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    "Recovery" and public shaming

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to noctanol's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm sorry public shaming has no place in recovery. This is just mean-spirited bile that serves no function. Protecting the Public? That goal seems to be served by allowing perspective employers...
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    bipolar disorder

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to fun4all1985's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Just because you have a mental illness doesn't make you incompetent in court. If your mental illness is to the extent that your testimony may be unreliable well then that's a matter for the Judge to...
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    Switching fields

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to noctanol's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah, I'll echo the last sentiments. If we have a regulatory board then PT and Ot probably does also. That's the bad part. The good part might be those boards could have normal functioning adults...
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    RN with DUI in PA Questions

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Huzofanurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm a Nurse who got a DUI here in PA. I can't speak to if a lawyer is worth it or not as I didn't have one. If I had it to do all over again I'd retain counsel because this program stinks. I...
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    What did you do after nursing school graduation?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to mstaurus2016's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I got a
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    Should I go back to school?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Butterfliesnroses's topic in Nursing Career

    If your employer is willing to pay for this what do you lave to lose? You have no idea what the future holds and RNs have a higher earning capacity than LPNs. Plus the RN is a jump off point to...
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    Meetings

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah I'm not a 12 step guy so I generally keep my mouth shut and put in a buck when they collect. I have noticed that at many of these meetings you have the same people monopolizing the meetings with...
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    nj bon with drug record

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to xojessicalynnxo25's topic in Nurses Recovery

    These programs aren't about recovery. They are an exercise in power plain and simple. I doubt if any recovery plan would include public proclamations of your addiction, taking away your livelihood...
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    Fit for Duty Evaluation

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to depressednursehere's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm not one to stick up for insurance companies. However, the reason they won't pay for most of this stuff is that they don't deem it medically appropriate. In truth without the 12 step propaganda I...
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    this should be interesting..

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Me neither but it would be nonsense. It says that you don't have to abstain from alcohol in your contract and you didn't. This could be a time to whip out the digital device and call your lawyer....
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    this should be interesting..

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh good grief!!! I hope they don't punish you for NOT violating your contract. That would be most stupid even by their
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    this should be interesting..

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You are allowed to drink while in monitoring land?!?!? You lucky lucky lucky nurse. I am envious. It is $61 bucks down the drain and makes no sense at all. How can you be in "recovery" and still...
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    Income woes - take a new job?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to mom2grace's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Good For You!!! That's what you did all that hard work for.
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    How can I help educate floor nurses as a Hospitalist NP?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Bumashes's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yeah. Don't do anything for free. This is an institutional problem. I've heard quite a bit of good input here. You are one NP and cannot train a hospital full of nurses. However, a functioning...
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    Fit for Duty Evaluation

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to depressednursehere's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I hope these costs are covered at least in part by your insurance
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    PA DUI, what to expect?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Whats next's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't understand. You quit drinking but kept smoking pot? I wish you the best but I'm pretty sure the kind folks at PNAP are going to treat you like you had no clean time at the time of your DUI...