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I also had a case manager who literally told me she has many nurses working in all different areas of nursing so I just needed to keep applying to places. She said she wasn't able to give me any recommendations to where to apply either. I felt so abandoned. But I eventually ended up finding a psyche position after three months of looking for a job, as the second nurse on duty. I never told HR about being in the program, I only told the nurse manager during my interview towards the end and she was very understanding and offered me the job.

I had to do the same and I'm glad I did prior to starting nursing since it took two years to find out the outcome and if so could sit for the NCLEX exam.

Psychiatric facilities as the second nurse on duty. Or in an intake/admissions psyche role. Doctor clinics or Dialysis positions (in a chronic facility so you can have a Supervisor on site. doesn't have to be an RN it could be like the director of intake with a social worker degree). At one point, bc I wasn't finding a job that would hire me, I was gonna reach out to some construction companies to create a role for myself as the occupational health nurse to their employees but I ended up getting a position in psyche thankfully.

If they used that word "aggressive" towards you without you actually being physically or verbally aggressive (bossy doesn't count) then I'd contact a lawyer about it. You might have a good case for discrimination/racism and also they might find they they were actually being aggressive towards you by gossiping, intimidation, etc. Then follow everything your lawyer tells you to do. Now also if you can add a please and thank you or maybe even some humor when you're being "bossy" it would probably help everyone involved and lighten the moment.

You don't have to disclose it (unless 'it's currently impacting your ability to safely practice as a nurse’) and it's very unfortunate that your supervisor even knows about the exact details. If I were you I'd look for a new job and don't ever disclose it to anyone especially the BON. Your supervisor could contact them and give a list of any infractions you've had on the job plus this information to build a case against you. Now hopefully your supervisor is cool and would never do that but I'd get out of there if I were you. Better safe than sorry. Also if your supervisor asks you again if you ever contacted the BON said you contacted a nurse lawyer and they're helping you take care of it.

An infection control nurse once told me about 12 years ago it is due to gel being thicker so the bacteria is more likely to adhere in larger quantities to areas that are chipped or starting to lift. Most major hospitals in the Houston area don't care about gel polish though. You just can't wear acrylics over here in any hospital.

I had to work nights in order to make it work here in Texas. Some hospitals might be able to accommodate you though you just have to ask your case manager for approval and the lab there if they can collect and send it out for you. There might also be 24hour open facilities, emergency after hours collection where you pay more from the ones that close at 5pm, or some that stay open til 8 or9pm. You just have to search it in your approved labs from your program and make some calls. Where I am located a lot of labs stop urine collections by 2:30pm even though they were open until 5pm for some wild reason, so just be fully aware of your preferred labs collection hours.

Does anyone know what website to use for approved CNE courses in Texas? I've looked through Texas Nursing Association but it seems hard to find courses that you need. Nurse.com offers CNE packages but will the BON accept it from here? What websites does everyone in Texas use? With the new mandatory CNE upload to the TX BON for license renewal I'm trying to make sure I do the write ones from the write place. I appreciate any advice and help on this! Thank you

Can you give us an update on what your attorney said? Thank you

Well in Texas if a nurse commits 5 minor incidences within a year then the employer can report it. It could be anything such as not documenting something, giving a medicine too early etc. if you've never been reprimanded or told you did something wrong then this is the only two things on your employee file right now with your employer. It doesn't hurt to ask a nurse lawyer what they think in your case.

If they already fired you for it then there's nothing you can do with your employer. If you're still having to have a meeting with your managers just admit and apologize profusely and tell them why you did it (how sick you were feeling). You don't have to self report to the BON because narcotics or benzos weren't involved. Let them do what they need to do and most likely if it's been 5 occurrences of issues already then BON will have you do some kind of class or remedial education and it'll be on your nursing license record.

It won't test positive at all. You'd have to down half the bottle and test the same day for it to show up. Just look at an online etg calculator and go from there

You could just ask them straight up what are they required to do now that it came back positive, if they are going to report it, and if there's any way you can retest with them or ask for the extra testing of the sample like the person above said.

Also to answer your last question I had better luck applying to Inpatient psyche facilities. No hospital after interviewing me wanted to hire me but maybe that was because I had mentioned either to HR or in the interview I was in TPAPN. I think I should've waited until after I got hired on to tell the manager I decided to enroll in a recovery program etc. but if in your case it'll go on your record publicly then you have no choice but to come clean. You should do it in the interview at the end though if you can. If they ask you why like what happened just tell them you'd had a drink the night before and you lost a benzo or narc while responding to another patients emergency and since no one could find it they had to give you a urine test but it came positive for alcohol and that's why they had to report you. Unless your comfortable telling them the real situation if they ask you what happened.

You can ask your case manager to send you a list of therapists who are cheaper than using something like Better Help therapy app. And when you have your first session make sure you tell them you're required to do twice a month sessions for 6 months or whatever you can actually afford. That way they won't write in their initial eval form you give them "once a week for six months or a year.” It's better to just already establish that because if not it could get expensive. In my case I asked for the cheaper therapist list but didn't end up using them because the BetterHelp app had a messenger/text therapy option so I could be changing my kids diaper etc while messaging during my session. I was also able to upload the therapy form to my therapist online and she would upload it back to me after she filled it out so that way I was the one responsible for uploading it to my case manager in the Spectrum App for tpapn.