Will I Am

Foxy, first of all... Congrats on landing an interview! I'm not in a place to give advice, but I will share my recent experience. I landed an interview on a behavioral health unit. I was extremely nervous as you can imagine. I went in with confidence, however. I sold myself.... Shared life experiences, nursing experiences, and training that I received. Then, I dropped the "BOMB". I shared that I'm in recovery, following the 'NA program', and that I have a narc restriction for @ least three months. The NM thanked me for being honest and said she would be in contact with me either way. I received a call from her the following week and offered me the job. About a week after starting work, I had to complete some paperwork with the nm. She told the reason she hired was not because of my nursing experience, but because of my honesty! She then shared with me that she has been in recovery for 25 years! I can't help but believe that this has all been part of GOD's plan.... In recovery..... There is hope!

Rest assured you are NOT alone! This can be the beginning of a new and way better life. This is certainly not the way many of us believed was the beginning of a better way, but after reading many posts of nurses who have come before us.... Recovery is real and very possible. Try to do 90 meetings in 90 days, get a sponsor and a support group. You can recover, one day at a time!

I been involved with the PNAP program since August of 2010. I just received an agreement in the mail from the VRP. This is almost 7 months later. I am reluctant to sign this agreement. I've read so many posts from this site about getting an attorney. I don't know if an attorney would do any good at this point being i'm already in a contract with PNAP. Why is the VRP just now sending me a contract? I did call a few attorneys and this is some of the responses I got..... One attorney, who appears to know what he's talking about said to sign the contract, there wasn't anything I could do at this point. The problem I see with this guy was he was on vacation at the time of the phone call, so I don't know if he was rushing this or not. The next attorney who claims to work in this area of law in the great state of PA, didn't know the terms i was using....VRP, PNAP. Is this a red flag or what? This one told me to send them a $500 retainer and the will begin work on the matter. I want to know if I have to sign this contract... if not signing it puts my license in jeopardy.... if not signing it makes the PNAP contract invalid.... This is what I guess the lawyer will answer after I "show them the money". Right? Here's another dilemma.... I just received permission to return to work and was offered a position. I don't want any of this to cause "waves" so to speak. I would like to hear other's experiences on these contract matters!

"Just for today" I say this to myself ALL the time. I don't have to worry about yesterday because it's gone. There isn't a **** thing I can do about it. And I don't have to worry about tomorrow because it's not here yet. All I have to worry about is staying clean "just for today". There's a saying that goes along with that..... "If you have one foot on yesterday and the other foot on tomorrow, then you're ******* on today"

I recently came to this site looking for advice on approaching job interviews. I have been involved with pnap since 08/31/10. I just recently received permission to return to work. Well to make a long story short, I had an interview last week, 3/16/11, @ a hospital. I was extremely nervous to divulge the info that I'm a "monitored nurse". The interview went a little like this.... I walked into the director's office, and of coorifice, there was another nurse there to "sit in" on the interview. The director couldn't find my paperwork so she asked that I tell them a little bit about myself. So I began..."spent some time in the Marine Corps, have 4 kids, been a nurse for a few years, so on....." Then it came out. "I want to add one more thing. I was terminated from my last job for failing a drug test. I am currently participating in the nurse monitoring program. I am active in my recovery and feel that my experiences over the last few months will give an advantage in this position." That was that. The cat was out of the bag. It turns out that the director that was interviewing me used to work for another states monitoring program....if that wasn't my Higher power @ work, I don't know what is! So it's been almost a week since the interview and I didn't hear anything yet. I have my phone in my hand, ready to make a "follow up" call with her. I'm ready to dial the number and my phone rings.... It's her. I'm not making this up...no way I could. My heart racing as I'm talking to her and she says IT. Are you still interested in taking the position? And I was... So I'm just waiting to hear form HR to set up a date to start. I said ALL that to say this. Don't give up.... Don't ever give! I certainly didn't think that I would be offered this position because of my restrictions. I wanted this position because I feel that I can give back, but I didn't believe I would. And I didn't necessarily need to have believe...... Just have faith in my Higher power, that He would guide me. And he has!