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Hi CapeCodeMermaid we are in the same situation! I switched from being unit manager of our very busy Skilled Unit to Staff Development Coordinator/Infection Control Preventionist. The regional director sent me an email asking me to complete the Cente...

Hello everyone-I just need to vent....I just keep waiting for my life to get better & it never really does. My story is that I became addicted to Percocet in 2003 after going through a length flare-up of Crohn's Disease, which resulted in toxic m...

I just resigned my position as a Night Supervisor for a small nursing home (rated 5 stars! by the Medicare/Medicaide site!) after a "Bait & Switch" was pulled on me. When I was hired, I was told I would be Supervisor for the entire facility, whic...

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My license has been "On Probation" since October 2008. I worked in Drug Safety before a dialysis clinic hired me in August 2009. I have been compliant with the terms and conditions of my contract with the Disciplinary Monitoring Unit. I have been a...

I turned myself in for drug diversion in 200, from the hospital I had worked in since 1985. Lost my ER position. Went to rehab, then out-pt rehab, went to countless NA/AA/Professional Support meetings, joined the First Lab drug testing program...wait...

I am in the last 10 months of my 3 year probation with the Pa Disciplinary Monitoring Unit. My license was suspeneded for 3 years, during which time I was fortunate enough to find a position as a Drug Safety Associate. However, once my license was b...

Hello Sunset 2010: you asked what the Disciplinary Monitoring Program in Pa was like. I have to attend three NA/AA meetings a week, plus two professional support meetings a month. I am lucky to be living near Philadlephia and was able to find a cou...

I had my son on Spring Break of my first year of nursing school (Good Friday), and the head of the program called me to say "congratulations on the birth of your son, and by the way, your Care Plan is still due Monday, so I will expect to see you th...

My name is Lisa. My sobriety date is December 28, 2004. I live in a suburb near Phialdephia. My license was suspended for 3 years after I self-reported my addcition to opiates. I was in the Voluntary Recovery rogram and was allowed to work on the I...

Don't worry about the hiring process being stopped because of your on probation status. I have found that several Davita nurses are in the same situation. Dialysis is apparently known for hiring nurses on probation, because normally, nurses prefer t...

I am in the Pa Disciplinary Monitoring Unit for narcotic diversion, with a 3 year probation period. Right now, I have 15 more months to go. It took me over a year to find a job in nursing because no one would consider me, even with 23 years of criti...

I brought a close nurse friend with me to my reinstatement hearing, as well as three letters of recommendation from other nurses. I did not have an attorney with me because I was so broke that I could not afford one. The hearing went very well, but ...

I would like to know if anyone else has run into this odd and rather unpleasant "experience." I graduated from nursing school in 1984 and made two lasting friendships with classmates from my clinical group. However, these two classmates only worked ...

18 y/o local college student needs 3 am evaluation of "something is growing in my belly button, and I just noticed it now." Patient is wearing a pair of well-worn black sweatpants...diagnosis: lint in belly button, removed with piece of gauze and NSS...

A few years ago, one of my closest friends called me and our mutual friends to tell us that she had something "absolutely wonderful to share." We met a the home of another friend-there were 7-8 friends there, some married, some single, some divorced,...

Last summer, I started waking up in the middle of the night with laryngospasms and the feeling that my throat was closing. This was accompanied by a sound very much like stridor... but weirdly enough, I never felt shortness of breath at all. Then one...

Just a comparison of salaries: my sister-in-law makes $120,000 (plus bonuses and paid vacations) selling office supplies..she has been with the same company for 15 years. She holds a 4 year degree in Business. I have about 15 years experience as a nu...

Just curious...someone responded to this thread yesterday, in an extremely unsympathetic way...I actually was horrified by that person's response, but of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. The response began by saying "no hugs for you!" a...

One busy, busy day in the ER, with patients in the halls on stretchers and chairs, and NO availble place to put a new patient; a mom brings in her 16 y/o son with an obvious fracture of the lower arm...the boy is grey, diaphoretic, and vomitting. I g...

I was the triage nurse in a busy city ER one Saturday evening. Suddenly, I heard shrieking and screaming as the doors burst open; it was a young woman who had accidentally amputated her left index finger while cutting potatoes. She was with her drunk...

First, let me give you a GREAT BIG HUG! I am a recovering addict RN, who has lost my license for 3 long years, due to narcotic diversion...I am a single mother of 3, with a mortgage, college tuition for my middle child, and no job for many months now...

That depends on the situation...I worked in an ER. To treat an awake, alert, 27 y/o women, about 150 pounds, 25 mcg IV ordered for a severe migraine headache..pt achieved complete pain relief, without signs of slurred speach, unsteady walk, etc. To r...

One summer evening, the ER staff was frantically resuscitating a 3 year old drowing victim. We had the curtains around the area of this code, and suddenly, the curtains drew back a little, and standing there, licking an ice cream cone, was a middle-a...

Hello there! You mentioned that you are sort of an "Arty" person, but can't make a living in that field, and that's why you are looking into Nursing-because the starting $ is farily good and there are plenty of jobs...I think that before you really ...