I am a NC RN that participates in the AP at the BON. I recently celebrated 3 years of clean time. I received my license back in early 2008. I have been searching since then for appropriate work. I CANNOT find anything around here! I am getting so frustrated, as you can imagine, coming up on 3 years with no appropriate work! I will tell you that I live around the Raleigh, NC area and would love, love, love ANY suggestions you might have about "friendly" places to work! By friendly I mean, someone willing to give me a second chance and not just laugh in my face! I am very dedicated and reliable as my current, non-nursing employer would tell anyone!!! Also, I too recently received my letter from the NCBON informing me that we will now be required to have direct observation when giving a urine sample. Does anyone know EXACTLY how that works? What exactly are they going to be looking at? Will we actually be nude "down there"? Thanks guys! Hope all is well!