dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Hprp special option test on probation

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RNEulogy's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Do your probation terms state that you can't drink

  2. Loss of all personal freedom.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    Except the Voting Rights Act which made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal wasn't passed until 1965. Betty Friedan didn't publish The Feminine Mystique - which detailed the repression of women...

  3. Need some guidance

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to doomedinpa's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Unfortunately your court monitoring probably won't count towards the BON-enforced monitoring so you'll have another 5 years of UAs and AA meetings and license stipulations. But hopefully it'll help...

  4. Marijuana

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to JadaM96's topic in Nurses Recovery

    She should buy a home test kit and see if she's positive. Most employers use similar cut-offs/sensitivities although some do use more sensitive testing -- if she's pos on a home kit, she'll almost...

  5. Clinging To Hope

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Are you applying for non-hospital jobs as well? Dialysis, SNFs, psych facilities, the usual gamut of restriction friendly jobs? Where are the nurses in your IPN group getting jobs? Can one of them put...

  6. What can I take...?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to JxoRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Plain Allegra was on our acceptable list of OTC medicines to take -- I was in Kansas' program. I think it would be fine. Anything -d will show up as amphetamines

  7. What can I take...?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to JxoRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I took plain Zyrtec and Claritin (not the -d formulation), usually stacked with tylenol, and never had an issue. And used a nettipot for

  8. In TPAPN and currently in IOP. Tested pos in IOP...do I need to tell my CM?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to JustBreatheRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would just ask your counselor if they will report this. Otherwise you're trying to calculate odds with very little information and gonna drive yourself crazy doing

  9. CA BRN Probation

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to jt925's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't think voluntarily surrendering your license in CA will make you ineligible for keeping your license in other

  10. Inconsistencies in Recovering Nurses

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Jon12309's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You should read some of Bryan Stevenson's works. What you're describing stretches to all corners of the justice

  11. How serious is a verbal warning really?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to ZSimzNeuroNurse's topic in General Nursing

    What a depressing world view. Hospitals should have adequate float or PRN staff to cover call-outs. If my illness is not their responsibility, their lack of planning is not my responsibility. Are you...

  12. Getting charged in multiple states?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would be more concerned about accruing criminal charges in other states. Your ability to practice nursing is moot if you're in

  13. Getting charged in multiple states?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    If you're asking this question because that other state is also going to find dirt on you -- please get a good lawyer. Otherwise, like gabby said, the domino effect on other state licenses is par for...

  14. please tell me when this is over this is over

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Babyj88's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've been out of the program since June!! Sorry my wording makes it sound like it happened this week or something lol. The board meeting to determine whether I was eligible for release DID get moved....

  15. please tell me when this is over this is over

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Babyj88's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I got the email from my program director that I had "graduated" on Sunday, tried to log into Affinity on Monday and got the screen saying my account was closed. I think I tried on Tuesday just to make...

  16. Money is tight

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I worked part time as a cashier at a grocery store and made $11/hr. I think Aldi's pays $12.50/hr. I was also offered a cashier job at Target which I turned down. I was worried I wouldn't get hired...

  17. To be or Not to be .. a Nurse again?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to CrazygymNurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You don't retake boards but you'll need a refresher course since it's been 5 years according to Google plus whatever hoops the BON and IPN want you to do. Sometimes you have to do a year or more of...

  18. Milestones.

    dirtyhippiegirl posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    This time of year is so...weird for me. I have roughly 1400 days sober and will have 4 years of sobriety if I make it to May 1st. (Not reason to assume I won't, but never say never!) If I make it to...

  19. Milestones.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thank you! Have you been to Rome? I am a huge history buff. Thought Rome would be overrated but it really was great, esp if you hit the smaller attractions and museums outside the Forum and

  20. Milestones.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thanks! We aren't really all-inclusive/lay at the beach types lol. I'd rather do something more adventurous and off the beaten path, and so would he, but it's his brother and all that jazz so we'll...

  21. In process, after evaluation, rpp wants 1 year monitoring without having a diagnosis

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Beazy's topic in Nurses Recovery

    In my state the one year monitoring program is an "extended evaluation" meant for people without obvious drug or etoh

  22. License by Endorsement

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to LindsayRNL's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would contact the BON to see if they will let you transfer at all while in an active monitoring program. Some states won't. Also not sure how far along you are in monitoring but if they will let you...

  23. Bored, Trying to figure out what to do.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to deej394's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe the OP is just smarter than

  24. Suspended Licence

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I like how this is the de facto response on here. Lawyers aren't magicians. The OP knowingly broke their monitoring contract. What happens from here is probably outlined explicitly in the contract...

  25. Suspended Licence

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    That blows. Giving you the courtesy of a heads up would be treating you as something other than sub-human which unfortunately isn't how many of these programs operate. I'd refer back to your consent...