dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

Yeah, I figured. ? Once you get your license back, it will come with stipulations like not being able to pass narcotics or benzos for X period of time, no overtime, can't be the only nurse on duty etc. ER nursing is not stipulation friendly. Psych nu...

You wouldn't be able to work as an ER RN anyway for a while. Usually getting your license back involves stipulations about passing narcotics etc that make ER nursing impossible. Also ER tech positions in my area usually go to EMS workers as you're st...

Reading comprehension isn't exactly your thing, is it?

Yeah they will come after your LPN license if you drop out.

I am in my mid-30s. Play a lot of video games, have a Lego collection that is worth about 5k and read/watch a lot of scifi, historical and science-based nonfiction etc.

If you can't stop without medical detox, you need to be open about that and then go to detox. Etoh was my drug of choice when I entered my state's monitoring program. (I was drinking on the job.) I went from a 2 to 3 pint a day habit to total abstine...

I hope you are going to be hourly and not salary because I can see this job eating up all of your time once he has a patient base. Who is going to back you up should you want a vacation or be sick? Are you going to be expected to take call to answer ...

My husband and I were hiking and climbing in Nepal last year. At one point, we were in villages that were a 2 to 3 day hike to the nearest village with a road and from there, a 6ish hour bus drive to the nearest facility approximating a hospital in K...

The problem with ANY supplement is that their manufacturing is not regulated. You do not know what is actually in these pills, if there has been any cross-contamination with other supplements being made at the facility etc.

I'd be interested in seeing how this plays out. I am in a different state but there was a lady in my monitoring group who self-referred for a mild etoh problem and than tried to back out after a year. The monitoring program alerted the BON who made h...

No. I don't know what the Affinity test is but I was just charged $45 for the A-panel when I was in KNAP.

So do you think that someone who believes that killing another living creature to consume it should...just eat meat, then? I am not certain how an ethical decision for many people is comparable to a fad diet. Muslims who stick to halal options can a...

Also a vegan option is instrinically halal and nominally kosher (the meal being kosher, the kitchen probably not), and covers the Hindu belief in not eating beef -- so you're covering a lot of bases. Certain Christian sects like the Seventh Day Adven...

What other people choose to do with their dietary practices isn't impacting you at all. Nobody is attacking you, yet you are being very defensive. Including a vegan option on the menu is not taking away from your rights to raise, kill, or consume ani...

Yay. I have been vegetarian for ethical reasons for 25 years and have, like another poster on here, been in hospital situations where my food choices were severely restricted to a small handful of things. And I eat eggs and most dairy products so it ...

You should definitely demand to investigate the color of the fringe on the flag in the courtroom when you have to go in to deal with your DUI charges.

No. My life is immensely better now that I am sober and I am absolutely certain that I will never be able to drink like a normal person or even a high functioning drunk. Both of those bits of knowledge keep me from missing alcohol for the most part. ...

I think Michigan's program is self-referral only? At least people used to post on here that you could only be eligible if you self-referred. You've really got two hurdles to overcome here -- the second DUI is one (plus whatever other arrests are on y...

Seeee, I had the opposite experience. I went to Rome for 10 days in the middle of monitoring. I came back fully expecting to be tested ASAP but didn't get hit with a test for close to 6 weeks...

I mean -- they aren't saying you can't leave the country. You'll just have your nursing license yanked if you do.

Blood test. It shows drinking for 3 to 4 weeks after you drank, sometimes more if you were hitting it heavy. I knew a couple of people who tried to drink while in KNAP, never knew anyone who did that successfully fwiw.

I have been out of KNAP for over 2 years now but my earlier posts in this thread are still my experience. Urine Etg can detect alcohol theoretically for several days after drinking but KNAP did not do Etg testing when I was in it. (From the deep digg...

I think it vaguely crossed my mind that I could drink again when I was in the process of completing monitoring but it wasn't terribly persistent, tbh. I've had a few stressful instances in the 2+ years I've been off paper where I wanted to drink but ...

Just depends on how your state handles things.

This is actually not the best idea either, especially if you're not expecting your drug screen to come back positive. A refusal to take a drug screen for whatever reason - even if a later drug screen ended up being negative - is often construed as ad...