FLSmitty

Welcome aboard, davis! I'm way north of you, so I don't know anything specific about the nurse support groups in your area. I have several IPN related posts here; please feel free to peruse at your leisure. Again, I welcome you. Smitty

$50.00 for this book: http://www.recoverymaintenance.org/workbook.html after you sign a contract & annually thereafter. the nursing support group facilitator gets $50.00/month from all participants & you pay for all evaluations, treatment &am...

Your dealings with IPN are confidential. In the case of non-compliance, IPN will refer the file to the BON with a complaint. At that point, previously protected info may become public record by way of meeting minutes and/or board order. Board ordere...

Maybe too late..... https://allnurses.com/nurses-and-recovery/just-wanting-some-411919.html#post3775112

Sounds to me like you're on a roll! Strong work, indeed. If you'll pardon my copy & paste take on interviewing & disclosure (from a suggestion offered to another recovering nurse), here's my two cents: The best time to raise the topic of you...

Matt has nailed two of the most important issues for someone long sober & facing an IPN evaluation: your choice of the evaluator & your recovery documentation. Smitty

Sxygmini, I'm glad you're making progress! Remember now, hands at 10 & 2, eyes intently focused on the road ahead and only the occasional brief glance in the rearview mirror is permitted. - Smitty

That's very perceptive, doolot! The "broad brush approach" kicks to the curb many that might otherwise succeed. Until there is a sea change in addiction treatment generally, and in the BON's approach specifically, those of us that wish to continue ...

You might try going through the BON meeting minutes. Reference to applicants with a situation similar to yours should be pretty easy to find. You might be able to compare your case to those who have gone before you. I still think the school that has ...

Hi Cdkipp, The MI. Nurse Practice most likely addresses such a situation and should only be a download away. A little less mind numbing approach would be to share your concern with the school that has admitted you. I can promise you they have had to ...

Oh sweet heaven goinnuts, I find myself overwhelmed & paralyzed just reading your post! I can't begin to tell you how many of us have uttered the very same words, struggled with the same issues and left abandoned the careers we loved. My heart a...

Jerry Garcia said it best: "Sometimes the lights all shinin' on me; other times I can barely see; lately it occurs to me; what a long, strange trip it's been. Speaking as a card carrying tightwad, never to waste money on unneeded travel, I'd still g...

Did you use your FL license to get your OR license? Did you voluntarily surrender the FL license or did they suspend or revoke it? Allnurse is liable to quash this thread if we get further into specifics. You can try to send me an email from my memb...

If you apply and provide sufficient documentation to make your application complete, the FL BON is obligated to give you a hearing; the outcome of that hearing is anything but easy to predict. The whole process can be quite convoluted (news flash, hu...

Network, network, network. Leave no stone unturned, be it across town, or across the country. Use your years of experience to your advantage no matter how they ended. You can and will be successful! Best of luck.... and remember, 90% of luck is plani...

The mission of IPN is to ensure public health and safety by providing an avenue for swift intervention/close monitoring and advocacy of nurses whose practice may be impaired due to the use, misuse, or abuse of alcohol or drugs, or a mental and/or phy...

Only you can decide the path to take. I gave up nursing so I could continue to drink. For me, in the long run, that path was a mistake. I think I posted some of the long strange trip here: https://allnurses.com/search.php?do=finduser&u=347169 Th...

Frustration intolerance, Gym? Patience brother... The exact mechanism for communicating disciplinary action from Florida to other states is held pretty close to the BON's vest. If you used an active FL license as a basis for endorsement or reciproci...

Morning Grace, Like how I took your questions, avoided them completely, then talked about me, me, ME? Forever a work in progress, I am. You want to apply in Penn., but get every shred of paper you can that relates to the affair in AZ. Download the Pe...

Grace, I avoided all the OIG trouble surrendering before revocation. My meltdown also occurred over 10yrs ago, which may have helped to. At any rate, in FL I was required to apply for a new license, as though I never had one. I disclosed my former tr...

Hey Grace, I'm not sure if your query was directed my way; I've lost track of this thread. If so, I voluntarily surrendered a FL RN license to PREVENT revocation. I never thought I'd return to nursing, but when my best efforts to drink myself to deat...

Super effort sir, but please permit me to suggest a quick double check of spelling and punctuation.

No public list exists. The status of your license can only be changed by a BON order.

Nicole, How did the evaluation go? Smitty

Hey Nicloe, there is nothing to the IPN eval., besides several hundred dollars, payable in cash only. Each evaluator is slightly different. I completed a long questionnaire about medical and drug use HX. Then a medical assistant went over the questio...