dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Not having kids until 35

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to waiting4ivpush's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. :) It's been a long, painful month. Nothing seemed to happen at once and the ectopic was unexpected. Just glad to have everything out and for my HCG to continuously be going down

  2. Not having kids until 35

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to waiting4ivpush's topic in General Nursing

    I wish we had started earlier. I actually went off b/c at 25 but didn't get directed into the fertility treatment path until 29. (We have male factor infertility.) We attempted IUI #1 a few months ago...

  3. Admission into Nursing School w/ a record?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Guumby's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I really do not know where you got that info. Most states consider first time DUIs with no extenuating or mitigating factors to be misdemeanors. In NJ, a first time DUI is essentially a moving...

  4. New RN in crisis

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Keebs1125's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You can go to meetings marked closed as well. Open means that non-alcoholics can attend. And really all you need to attend a closed meeting is a desire not to drink. Hope that helps some.

  5. Hope and Perseverance

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dagobah's topic in Nurses Recovery

    So did no one tell the poor kid that nursing school is an awful choice for someone with 3

  6. Provigil

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to PavementRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was allowed to take Provigil off-label for depression. The addiction potential is very low. However I assume you have to tell the monitoring program per the rules set forth in your

  7. Depressed self-referral to ED

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to jana82's topic in General Nursing

    Most of my psych admissions were through the ED. I have only been restrained once and I had it coming. What I found to be much more humiliating was hospital policy of cuffing you for transport both...

  8. Does everybody want to be a NP?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Cola89's topic in General Nursing

    I do wonder whether the NP job bubble is going to burst? I have absolutely no hard numbers but it does seem like "everyone" is either in NP school or planning on it. In my last unit, 1/2 of the nurses...

  9. Admission into Nursing School w/ a record?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Guumby's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I think most states consider first time DUIs as misdemeanors...? It's going to be an uphill battle. Not impossible if you can manage to get into a school but a long, probably expensive uphill battle...

  10. Jealous Friends...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Upward_Bound's topic in School, College Programs

    Yes, literally everyone was jelly. They were all like why can't I work every other weekend and half of all major

  11. Forgot to carry out an order? Reportable to the BON?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Cola89's topic in General Nursing

    To be fair, many states have confidential monitoring programs for first time offenders. My hospital did not fire me for my alcoholism. They reported me to the state monitoring program which is...

  12. Considering a Job in Urgent Care

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nurse7502's topic in General Nursing

    I think most urgent cares prefer ER (or maybe ICU) experience first because you don't have many resources when things go wrong so you need a solid knowledge base -- GERD ends up being a MI or...

  13. Experiences with Maryland alternative-to-discipline program?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to newgradmistake's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Are you self-reporting because you have fears that you are about to be reported by someone else? Otherwise, do not

  14. How in the world did I get started on this path?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to SororAKS's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yet despite easy access to drugs, addiction in healthcare workers is on par with the general population. Rate of addiction in restaurant workers is nearly double the general population. If there is...

  15. Volunteering with encumbered license

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dekyrn's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My state counts volunteering in a nursing capacity as time served for completion of the monitoring program. Some folks volunteer off their narcotic stip, for instance. It is the same process as having...

  16. Florida DUI, Back-On-Track Diversion

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to SgtSkeletonRN's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    By the BON? Or a lawyer familar with the BON? You will have to report something, eventually and if the BON puts stips on your license, you are going to run in to issues anyway. I would take the...

  17. How in the world did I get started on this path?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to SororAKS's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think you are reaching with that one. You can fault the healthcare industry for a lack of access to treatment and even for the heavy AA/NA bias that colors a lot of treatment in the US...but SA has...

  18. Recovery experience translatable to resume?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to zephyr9's topic in Nurses Recovery

    In general, disclosing personal issues with mental health and addictions -- even if you have quite a bit of recovery time -- is a really, really, really bad idea. At least in nursing. Now, in some...

  19. I want to get my RRT but have a tricky past...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Doubtingone's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I suppose if you relapsed and your licensing board found out - part of the addictions assessment would include questions about past

  20. I want to get my RRT but have a tricky past...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Doubtingone's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I wouldn't disclose anything that doesn't show up on a background check but that's just

  21. Florida DUI, Back-On-Track Diversion

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to SgtSkeletonRN's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Well, that will be a huge career ending issue if the BON ever discovers that you didn't report the DUI within whatever timeframe that they dictate you have to report

  22. Drug seekers

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    I sometimes wonder what the efficacy of al-anon meetings would be to nurses who struggle with caring for possibly addicted and/or drug seeking

  23. NJ DUI

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to MikeRN14's topic in Nurses Recovery

    What about calling the BON (anonymously) and just

  24. Returning to work while In RAMP monitoring program

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Clara38's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Since she got caught, one would assume she was acting impaired which you most assuredly cannot

  25. BSN vs MD?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nicuhopeful97's topic in General Nursing

    Pragmatically in managing your MH/fatigue issue, nursing school is only 2 or 3 years of time-crazy schooling but you are unlikely to find a part time job in the NICU as a new grad. Medical school is 4...