SpankedInPittsburgh DNP, RN

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    My first letter —please help

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Jaxbadds3's topic in Nurses Recovery

    First don’t use your real name. Then a certified letter from a monitoring program rarely turns out well. Lawyer up and prepare for a poop
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    Board order - great news!!!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Super!!!! Write that check quick and do your courses and say goodbye to this. Consider yourself
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    Today I get my life back

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Happynurse25's topic in Nurses Recovery

    yay yay yay!!! thank you for the message of hope that this too shall pass (if not quietly) into the
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    Pursuing NP after completing probation

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to SkyIsTheLimit86's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I completed my np studies and started working as an np while still in monitoring. However, I had completed my clinical hours before monitoring or restrictions started. That’s the limiting factor I...
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    Random, eh?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to KatmamaRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Nice!!! I went away once and got tested right when I got back but that was no big deal I expected
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    Random, eh?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to KatmamaRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    5 times in two weeks? That's idiotic!!! Actually it's harassment in my opinion. Your "advocate" must be a spastic fool. That testing is so often that I think that it would actually be overlapping....
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    Random, eh?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to KatmamaRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    hmm I still get tested a couple times a month. Been at it for three years. I wish it would go down to 4-6X per year as my wallet could use a break but I really don't sweat the randoms too much. I...
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    In Professional Healthcare Monitoring Program

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Kira4357's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yep, I've been in PNAP for 3 years now. Life will get better when you can go back to work. This program is financially crushing there is simply no two ways about that. However, I'm getting there...
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    One year left...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well you are just starting and you did complete a rehab so I would hope that with your clean time they would let you keep working but these folks can be money grubbing and
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    One year left...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    What
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    One year left...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don’t think you get suspended for a first offense on monitoring here. However, they do make folks repeat rehab sometimes and essentially that is a suspension plus they make u start
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    One year left...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    6 months here. I hope u enjoy your trip to Disney and they leave u and your pee alone. My tests are also funny. I’ll get 3 in a week then none for a long time. No telling. All we can do is...
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    Peth test

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Rnbsn3089's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think about alcohol all the time. However I know it’s simply not an option as the ramifications are simply to chilling to think about. The risk simply doesn’t come close to balancing out the...
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    Be honest or let it fly?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Reese Nurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree. I wish weed was legal. I don’t even like the stuff but as mind altering substances go I think it’s the best bet. I was an ER Nurse for a long time and never had to wrestle a guy high...
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    Wedding

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to svetlana36's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hey they give exemptions for traveling out of the testing area. It seems to me that a wedding is a bigger deal than a trip to the islands. I’d ask anyway. Good luck and
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    Potentially positive option 2..

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Bugsandlola22's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I’m not sure about option 2. I almost always get selected for option 3. I thought option 3 tested for etg and option 2 didn’t. However, if you drank last night and are tested today this may not...
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    FINALLY DONE!!!!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to willow14's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh happy day!!!!
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    Repeating inpatient treatment??

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Get a
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    Repeating inpatient treatment??

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh god I sure hope not. I think of all the stuff I went through in the program inpatient rehab was the absolute worst. Anyway if left to the “professional” therapists opinion then probably as...
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    I'm so lost

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Nitenurse03's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Indeed we are all pulling for you and many of us are in the same leaky
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    Light at the end of the tunnel?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You hang in there!!!! I’m nothing special and am getting through this mess. You can too!!! Just take one seemingly undoable step at a time and you can get this mess behind you. You are a Nurse...
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    Peth test

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Rnbsn3089's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yay yay yay!!!! I’m so
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    Peth test

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Rnbsn3089's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It is my understanding that Peth won’t pick up the small amount of alcohol you drank. I just took a peth test and I was nervous. I didn’t drink at all and I was stilll nervous as heck. The only...
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    Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty.....

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Professor Cats..... i like it. You would be
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    Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty.....

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Cats this is indeed the happiest message I’ve ever seen here!!!! God bless you and good luck. You have been drug through a wringer that you didn’t need and you survived. I’m very happy for...