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For any nurses in monitoring programs, be careful requesting vacation time. Some of you will have allowed maximum amount of vacation time specified in your monitoring agreement per year. Some will say it's at your case managers discretion. Some wi...

If you haven't smoked THC, that is no issue. You are fine. The danger is this....Most State Boards in the last 5 years are selecting the testing sites for where nurses go for evaluations. It did not use to be this way. The Board would say, we nee...

When you enter a program, most programs will want you to attend 3 recovery meetings per week, which is either AA, NA, Celebrate Recovery or Smart Recovery or a combination of those above. You will call in everyday to check in and when you call, if y...

1. Rose, please don't post about things you have no clue or concept of what you are talking about. I am a CRNA and use to set on the California Board prior to CRNA school while an RN. I did it for 2 years. I have seen over 25 nurses criminally ch...

In California, everyone does NOT get a key restriction. This totally varies based on what the nurse did, for example, diluted urine specimen when applying for a job compared to proven Diversion of narcotics while at work. Those two are radically dif...

I am in Sacramento, and use to be on the Board. I'm now in NYC

Then....you need to fight. I would first and foremost, acknowledge the receipt of the investigation. 2nd, I would immediately get a chemical evaluation and then send this to the Board. From that point right there, the Board has no case against you...

The hair test for alcohol is very, very likely IF.....IF the Board is picking the chemical eval facility for you. If they are saying to you, "we want you to go here." Then it's very likely. If you have some say so in which chemical eval facility y...

Your license was suspended and you are still drinking....as in.....ANY amount of alcohol shows poor judgement. It begs the question of....how much do you truly care about your licence. With the volume of alcohol that you drank in the last 90 days, ...

A previous med error and IPN are not the same thing. You don't get placed into a monitoring program due to a simple med error. Is there more to the story? Was the med error something just a bit more than a med error.....as in....narcotics went mis...

First of all, you did not disclose WHY you have a chemical dependency evaluation. 2nd. Alcohol usage can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days. The test is more qualitative than quantitative and here is what I mean. They can detect, goi...

False. It is now 5 for anyone coming in with Diversion History and here is why. First, I have cut and pasted from their website "Generally, the Program length is between three (3) to five (5) years. However, the actual length of time will depend o...

There are circumstances where waiting is better due to not being in that state, or traveling, saving money, etc. I get that, but by in large...and in most cases, getting the clock started is better. Trust me on this. I have talked to hundreds....n...

No there isn't. You are absolutely not under any work restrictions UNTIL the Board says you are. If you are being investigated by a nurse board and the evidence looks overwhelming to the point that the Board can not wait the average 12 to 18 months...

No, I did not wait until the investigation was over before entering my monitoring program. Why? Because I wanted the clock started. It's a 5 year monitoring program. The state is going to want you to do 5 years of being monitored (daily check in/...

IMMEDIATELY get into the program. Get into California's monitoring program and start your daily check in's and random testing NOW. Why? Because you are going to get 5 years of required monitoring/drug testing from the Board when this is done, and ...

Here is the thing. You being "more than confident that you can remain clean" isn't the decider. You being more than confident that you can remain clean is the standard BEFORE you begin diverting. Once you have been diverting and you are now caught...

Folks, nobody should be "calling in" everyday in the year of 2023. The overwhelming majority of states now have an App on your phone where you simply click the button each morning and it instantly tells you if you have been selected to test or not. ...

Nobody wrote that is was a crutch. Nobody wrote that everyone was the same. I have a valid opinion because I am a CRNA and work in a pain clinic and do pain management, so I know something or to. You do NOT need Subutex to survive or be out of pai...

Look, lets approach this from a recovery perspective. If you are still....notice that word, STILL trying to find legal loopholes and you are trying to "do battle" with what the nursing board must continue to "allow" you to take, you are so SCREWED. ...

And you are correct 100%. Here is the thing though, one wouldn't need to worry about police. Because you tell a therapist you frequently drive drunk will not get a police call because police need you to be drunk driving the car to convict you, other...

I'm not sure where you are getting your vendor. I do the ordering of anesthesia medications/inventory in my dept and I can assure the cost is 2 times that of neo/stig reversal. When used for high risk post op respiratory complication patients, the lo...

Your California license will be suspended likely and your home state of MN, which is where I think you practice will suspend your license and make you go to therapy including a 6 week PHP, followed by a 6 week IOP, followed by 1 year of Aftercare. Yo...

Very true. Historically by Court precedent and case law, if a nurse is voluntarily seeking help from a mental health professional and going on his or her volition without being mandated by the Board or a monitoring program, that is seen as a major po...

From a pure recovery standpoint and not from a career, BON, or job standpoint, but purely recovery. The odds are absolutely overwhelming that you use again in some form or fashion without completing IOP. The data and numbers just are overwhelming and...