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Teaching Non-Violent communications skills is VERY helpful to assist patients in gaining skills with expressing feelings, thoughts, and needs in a healthy manner without posing a risk of upsetting others! All the best in your rotation!

Hello to you, Does the Michigan BON have an impaired professionals program? Our State does and the program assists you in getting documenation/monitoring together so that you eventually will be granted more priviledges in the future. What about checking out agency nursing? They are the only people who have a need to know what your restrictions are, not the client. Regardless of what you look at for opportunities, put in as many applications in every place you can think of. Remain up front and honest. If you continue to work at it something will evenually turn up. DON'T GIVE UP!

Work with the BON on this. They are the only people who can advise you at this point. You can ask them if there is anything you can do to help this along. Good luck to you!

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Dear lunaRN, Where is this, "Nursing Licensure with a criminal history" forum found?

Hello chinadollie, Don't give up! Find out from the BON and NCLEX what it is that you need to do. You have worked too hard to go through nursing school and you shouldn't give that up lightly. You should also consider contacting an attorney who can advice you, or, give you some sort of direction. I agree with LLG, you may experience difficulty finding some jobs that your background could be considered substancially related to the job critera. But, with that being said, there are many areas of nursing to explore (that don't involve direct care). So become proactive and find out what hoops you have to go through! The best of luck to you!

Sorry Nancynurse08, you are a faster typer than I am. I was refering to Chocokitten's VA patients.

Wow...how sad. Our State allows the abuse to be reported well after an individual turns 18, but after the statute of limitations is met there is nothing that can be done. I can't imagine what your patients have gone through if they have carried this burden for all their life without any resolution. Many of our criminally mentally ill males have also experienced sexual abuse. It really screws them up.

I hope I wasn't misunderstood about contacting Human Services. My point was to contact them without having interviewed a patient. You can pose all types of senerios of what may be reportable, and understand your legal responsibilities. If your facility isn't going to define a policy and proceedure which provides you with protection, then knowing your state law will. Good Luck

How about contacting your local human services department? If your facility is not going to define the issue for you, then they will certainly let you know what your state law requires of you as a required reporter. Good Luck!

well, aspiring...i don't know as though nurses "hate" the actual job they perform. i believe it believe the conflict has more to do with peripheral issues related to how we must function in our chosen specialties. such as: not feeling as though we have an all inclusive, active, democratic voice in unit/policy/proceedural decisions. when this is absent, the outcomes can lack common sense to us frontline workers and can inhibit our ability to perform for the betterment of our patients. i am happy for any of my peers who haven't experienced this, but many of us have. having our duties increased and staffing capped. great for the budget...bad for our patients. and a formula for burnout. continuing to have our wages artifically suppressed as administration affords themselves great wage increases. or, hires new staff rn's $1.00/hr less than those with five years of seniority. please do not think that i don't like being a nurse, because i love what i do. it's just that our profession is in a time of change that requires assertivess and activism to usher us into the new face of what nursing needs to look like. :w00t: embrace what you love to do and open your mind to what you want to see! great question!

rock on elkpark! i'm with you! our facility requires an md order for the first hour (with a face to face), and a face to face every hour thereafter till the point of a total four hours in locked seclusion occurs. at that point the md may order a four hour time block of seclusion before they have to perform the next face to face evaluation. i don't know what you were advised in nursing school 3nursing07, but i was taught to never perform any intervention without a facility policy and procedure in place. without one, you no longer have the protection of your employer's standard of care. in a court situation you would have to validate your actions based on prudent judgement, or a professional body that defines practice for correctional nurses validate it. the act of placing someone in a locked selusion in effect removes an individual's civil rights and needs to be monitored by an advanced practice individual for it to continue. please advocate for yourself and put in writing to your supervisors a request for a policy and proceedure related to this issue, and keep a copy. you are also within appropriate boundries to tell them you are not comfortable carrying out this task any longer till a policy is developed. please keep yourself safe!

Originally Posted by medicrnguy Sorry, maybe I did come off a bit harsh, I just get sick of having RN's put others down due to educational prejudice. Holey buckets, man...wake up ! Aren't you are an RN too? Way too much countertransference from the old job!

I agree with Texascowgirl regarding presenting yourself as a role model ect. And, although it may be an unpopular choice, a chat with your direct supervisor could be what's needed. From the information you have provided, this worker is creating a hostile work environment for you. I work in a state facility that treats the criminally mentally ill as well as individual's who are brought in (civil) as a danger to themselves or others. The job is rewarding and I love what I do, but if I were exposed to this work environment I would burn out quickly. These patients need nurses like you, not loose nurses like you. Good Luck and welcome to the field!