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    Income woes - take a new job?

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

    It's a job. If she didn't fit into that practice's plans she'd be out of there tomorrow. Also what did this Doc think was going to happen? When you offer a half-time job you better make darn sure...
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    Income woes - take a new job?

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

    You took the best opportunity available at the time. Find a better one and take it!!! You didn't go through the rigors of studying to be an NP for a 1/2 time job. This is just a business decision....
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    Suportive Advertising ?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Oogie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Who care if you were searching for ETOH ads. I personally think that many are entertaining. Besides my reading of the big book (and I'm far far far from a thumper) from memory states that we can...
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    What I've Decided About my Education

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to EGspirit's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think a BSN does anything to improve the skills of a nurse getting it. We learn our profession by helping patients in a clinical setting for the most part. We are unlike other college...
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    What I've Decided About my Education

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to EGspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Get your BSN!!! I got mine a few years ago on-line and it was an exercise in trivial group projects and nonsense. However, it more than paid for itself in higher wages and opportunities. I'm going...
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    Fit for Duty Evaluation

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to depressednursehere's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've never been through that nor am I from Wisconsin. All I can do is offer my hopes and prayers & you have that. There are good people in here and hopefully they can offer some insight. Good...
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    What Else Can I Do For A Living?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to RNCM123's topic in Nursing Career

    It seems to me that you might have to "start over". Before becoming a nurse I had another career that paid about twice as much as I now make. I was miserable. I had to decide if I was going to be...
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    Just venting

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    HA!!!!! Ho Ho
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    What to say?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to RN0599's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah I'm still at tell em to mind their business. I think if more nurses didn't put up with other "concerned" nurses probing for info to gossip about the world would be a better
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    Newly Fired

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Nursey1982's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hello and welcome. You are facing the same hell many here have and hopefully you will find some understanding and compassion here. First, if the cops were gonna file charges they would have almost...
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    Just venting

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    rn1965: First of all happy holidays and here's a prayer that those callous idiots get back to you soon. Here at the beginning of the process and apparently the end a long period can go by before the...
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    NP school liability insurance

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to 10yearnurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Good Luck!!! I'm going into the last semester working towards my DNP with just my Capstone left. Honestly I've never heard of this issue being an impediment and hopefully with all my clinical hours...
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    Reporting for racial slurs/substance abuse

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to guest563546's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You need to block her or whatever you need to do to cut off any contact with this train wreck. As far as reporting her, what are you going to report? That she's a racist? That's she has a substance...
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    Suportive Advertising ?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Oogie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't know. You have a bunch of people in here. Some wanna be sober. Some don't. I suppose its like any advertising. When I watch TV or pick up a newspaper not every ad is targeted at me. It's...
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    Bullying in the work place

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to haney13's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You need to be your voice and yours alone. One reason I feel that bullying exists is that nurses who are bullied take on a victim role and wait for somebody "to do something about it". However, we...
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    Black Sheep...time to leave?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think the real question here should be "why do I care about what this yippy pack of dogs think"? Nursing is many things to many nurses but what it is for all of us is a paycheck. If you have a...
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    Suportive Advertising ?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Oogie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'll have to get some when I'm done with this
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    Another Casualty of "Recovery"

    SpankedInPittsburgh posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Tonight I heard another sad tale of a Nurses life thrown into disarray by the actions of a callous, faceless and imbecilic representative of the Nazi state of monitoring land. This poor guy completed...
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    Another Casualty of "Recovery"

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree!!!! Before my DUI I regularly worked 50-60 hours a week. When I wasn't working I was doing clinical hours or studying for my DNP. When I wasn't doing that I was with my girlfriend at the...
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    Are you better off?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Me
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    RNinRecovery*Help!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to 2010rn42's topic in Nurses Recovery

    As far as the 12 step stuff. I do what is required. I go & get my slip signed. PERIOD. If I was braver I'd sign the paper myself but I'm afraid of giving these Nazis an excuse to mess up my...
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    Cando uodate.. ugh

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to JxoRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Here once you are in the program you need a return to work letter. That is not given until you have completed IOP and 90 in 90. Once you can return to work you have restrictions placed on what you...
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    Help my wife got caught diverting

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to got_nurseing73's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I actually do think people are starting to recognize these programs for what they are. The more of us that get caught in this giant net I think serve as a living example of simple injustice. I was...
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    Are you better off?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This program has not made me better at all. It has bankrupted me financially. Caused me to take my last semester off school which has cost me thousands of dollars and undue stress. The "treatment"...
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    Are you better off?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yep I agree. In my state we lose about 9% of the participants in the monitoring program, I feel those are probably the actual alcoholics and addicts who desperately need help. The rest of us manage...