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Thank y’all so much for sharing your experiences with me. Is there a way to contact someone on here in a personal message? When you say you had criminal charges, did that involve jail time? I know that every case is different with each individual outcome but I’m just trying to get ideas of what to possibly expect. I also know each state BON is different, but you said you ended up in the monitoring program, is this typically what the BON decides as a first time punishments? I do still have an active nursing license and it doesn’t have any restrictions as of right now other than the flag by the OLTC. I’ve never heard anything from the BON other than the investigator calling me to try and get me to surrender my license. I’m working in a factory at the moment and I’ve been clean now for almost 4 months. I would love to go back to nursing but I’m afraid to find a job and then take the chance of the BON suspending my license and then having to quit that job and burn bridges somewhere of not being able to be rehired. I’m just trying to have a stable job for as long as I can until I figure out everything that is going to happen. How long did it take before you had to go in front of the BON and find out what was happening with your license? Again, thank you so much for sharing!

No I do not. And I know I should get a lawyer but at the moment I’m not working in nursing and with covid my hours are cut down to part time. So it’s not possible right now.

I haven’t been able to afford one at the moment. But I will as soon as possible.

While dealing with all of this from the OLTC there is now an officer contacting me from the town it happened in and is wanted me to come in for a polygraph. Is this something that is common? Maybe a scare tactic? Anyone actually have criminal charges after something like this or just dealt with BON?

I’m trying to see if anyone has went through the same situation. I was reported to the BON for diverting narcotics. I heard from the investigator from the BON and he told me the best thing to do was surrender my LPN license. I didn’t do it and recently I received a letter from NPDB stating I can no longer work in LTC Due to misappropriation of a residents property. I still haven’t heard from the BON regarding my license. With this being reported to the NPDB will I be able to get a nursing job anywhere? I’m not working in nursing at the moment and won’t be until all this is over. In this situation, should I expect my license to be revoked, suspended, or a chance of just probation? I’ve only been a nurse for 2 years.