MARFEE

I am curretnly in TPAPN too, since July 06, have not worked yet! I have moved to a bigger city in South Texas in hope to find employment in Nursing! My Tpan case manager says we should be able to find jobs, but it is soooooooo true, once you tell the DON you are in TPAN, the job for some reason has became automatically filled, or there has been someone before you that they hired because of thier experience! I' ve heard all these excuses for not getting hired! I wish you all the luck and hope to hear from you!

Thank you all for the replies, I have applied at a Nursing Home, and am in really hopes of just finding a job! I really don't mind the NH, I just hope and pray I can get hired! Once my former employer found out I was enrolling into TPAPN, I was terminated! Now when I think back, it's for the best, this Nurse manager would have probably mad my life a living hell!

I have recntly enrolled in the TPAPN program for Texas nurses, in order for my license to remain active, and have no chance of revocation. I would like any information from any nurse that is in or has been in the TPAPN program. At this time, I am having a hardtime finding employment, and my case manager seems to think I should not be working at this time. I have dependents and the cost fo this program is expensive, but as my cse manager informed me, she is concerned with my Sobriety, other than having a job! I am going stir crazy at home, and it is difficult to make ends meet! Please if anyone is out there that has had any experience with this program, I'd love some feed back! Tahnks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel also like leaving the profession due to the accusations, such as nurses diverting, ect.......... too many back stabbing nurses, Managers, hot headed docs.................I would love to hear more about nurses that have been charged with drug diversion at a hospital. Do they get law enforcemant involved????????????

mispelled!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure you know I meant abuse!

You are making a wise choice! I've been in nursing myself for 22 years, and now along with all the physical injuries, mental aboute from either docs, paitients, or supervisors, I am stuck with an addiction problem which I myself need to take control of my life, and not work in such a demanding profession. Money is ok, but there is more to life than $$$$$$$$$ You take care! I wish you all the luck in the world. I wish I had more talents myself! I'm thinking Real Estate!

Gosh, reading these responses, sounds like the one I hvae been thinking of writing. I work on a busy Med/Sug Unit floor on night shift, and we don't usually have a CNA 3 of the 7 days of the week. It is difficult for these patients to receive the proper care, post-op as they should. Sometimes I feel I've short-changed my patients. Management doesn't seem to care. It's the patients and the NURSES who suffer!

This is an interesting topic, maybe other nurses need to know ..................

I have a criminal conviction of attempted poss. of controlled substance by Fraud, never did I pick the medication up, but I was given 5 years def. probation. It was revoked due to a DUI, which was dismissed by the State of Transportation, but picked up by the county, I was set for trail, but peior to trail, had my probation revoked. Spent 90 days in jail, then had to go to Rehab, and Outpatient Rehab. I have not lost my license, but the BNE does want me to go through a 2 year Peer Assistance Program. When I informed my Manager of this, I was immediately drug tested, and of course, my test will be postive for hydrocodone, sue to a herniated disc, and I am under M.D. care, I cannot return to work until I hear from them, I have been employeed with this hospital for almost 5 years, with a 2 year break. I have never lied on my application of my past criminal history, but now my Manager is throwing it up in my face, and also accusing me of diverting drugs! The excuse they used for my drug test was a "Drug Descrepancy", in which there was not one, and I was the only one tested. I feel I am being singled out, and now my Manager does not want me working on her floor anymore due to the accommodations this program the BNE wishes me to enter into! Is there anyone else out there with a similar situation as mine? Help!!!!!!!!!!!

I do fully understand what you are going through. I myself am having a difficult time at work, I'm an RN, but when I am in charge the co-workers are insubordinate, ect....... I am a good nurse and prefer aptient care of taking charge. I will soon be in a chemical abuse program, due to my past, I have kept my license, the BNE did not revoke, suspend, or place them on probation. I have many health problems, in which I still take pain medication, just recently, when I told my Supervisor I was going to be entering in to this program, I was drug tested the following morning! Now, I cannot work until I hear from them. I have legit scripts, but my Supervisor, (after my UA) in her office accused me of diverting drugs! I need to know what can I do legally about these false allegations she made against me! She also said she believed I was on something due to my speech was slurred and my pupils were constricted! I wish I would have had a voice activated recorder! I feel, she does not want to work with me, or the program I will be going through, so instead, push me far enough to resign, in which I will not due to my past history of having a felony! It is hard to get a job just anywhere when a nurse has this on her record! I can't understand why nurses can't just all get along, and do the best they can! I'm not giving up, and neither should you! Show them you are not a quitter!