SureJan

A coworker of mine recently was found guilty of medical neglect of her child. How will 2 separate DFPS findings of neglect (neglectful supervision in 2023 and medical neglect in 2025) of a RN's children affect said RN's license? She already is participating in TPAPN for alcoholism and mental instability.

How long do you have to be in the program? Are you an RN or APRN?

her license status just changed from multi-state to single state, so IDK what that means. Still says unencumbered. I hope she can get better whether she is being held accountable with the peer assistance program or not

So she will most likely deny any mental health issues, but I attached EXTENSIVE evidence of her mental health/substance abuse issues in my email to TPAPN dating back to 2017, so will that have any pull if she is currently pretending to be a goody goody at her new job? I'm assuming she's on her best behavior so as to not get fired, but when I reported her, I included the cps report that stated they found a "reason to believe" that "neglectful supervision" occurred. In addition to a video of her passing out on a YouTube live while drinking a mikes harder lemonade, pictures of her busted up face when she passed out during clinicals, an email she sent me back in 2018 where she admits to being so mentally ill that she doesn't think she can be around her kids, and dozens of screenshots from her social media where she admits to passing out and falling from starving herself.

You seem exceptionally knowledgeable about this. In your opinion, what do you think will happen to a Texas nurse I know who mixed pills and alcohol and attempted suicide by shooting herself in the wrist while her children were home with her? She only got a 72 hour hold in a psych ward, because she lied to her psychiatrist and said she shot herself by accident. Our CPS investigator told us the police report clearly stated she drew a target on her wrist and told her adult friend she was "going outside to smoke a cigarette, and if she hears a gunshot to call 911" She was in her next to last semester of nursing school and I didn't know I could've reported her then. I reported her in July after I realized she got her license and her first nursing job, because I was terrified of her hurting anyone from her severe drug and alcohol abuse. I was honestly shocked she finished nursing school with her swirling mass of mental health issues (she regularly passes out from her eating disorder, and actually passed out during a clinical shift and sliced open her chin during the fall).

*hugs* I'm sorry you're going through this. I don't know if anything I can say will make you feel better other than you will come out of this stronger? Much, much stronger

I apologize if I came off harsh. Any animosity I have is towards this one nurse specifically. She's been exceptionally reckless for years and has put her kids in danger multiple times and I'm tired of it. I hope she can get help too. I thank whatever god may be out there every day that her kids weren't harmed in her suicide attempt. I don't want this to happen again and next time they find her lifeless body. Or they get hurt physically. I'm 99% sure she still has access to firearms at her house bc Texas.

Yes. That is exactly the lesson you all should take away from this: just get better at hiding your severe mental illnesses and addictions so that your friends and family are less likely/able to help you when you need it most. She posted under a pseudonym, so she thought she was in the clear, but she's not as sneaky as she thinks she is.

I reported a RN a month ago who mixed pills and alcohol and shot herself in the wrist while her two children were home with her. CPS determined there to be a "reason to believe" that "neglectful supervision" occurred that night, but since neither child was physically harmed, they still live with her primarily. In the referral, I included video evidence of her passing out on a YouTube livestream while drinking a mike's harder lemonade. I also included dozens of screenshots from her social media accounts from 2017 onwards where she admits to having alcoholism and a severe eating disorder that she regularly loses consciousness from (both in public and in private). Of those screenshots, there are posts detailing her passing out while working a clinical shift at the hospital. She fell and busted her face open pretty badly, but was able to shrug it off as a freak accident when her nursing professor asked why she fainted. I included our cps caseworker's contact info. Our cps caseworker informed us that she lied to the psychiatrists at the mental hospital claiming that the gun fired by accident, when the police report clearly states that she drew a target on her wrist, told her friend she was "going outside to smoke a cigarette and if they hear a gunshot to call 911". sorry for the book, I just wanna know, in your experience, will all of this evidence result in an immediate license suspension? In your opinion, what do you think will happen to this nurse? She's also planning on moving thousands of miles away to Hawaii, where she has zero support systems, to work. TIA