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Does anyone have experience with taking a vacation while in TPAPN? I have scoured the handbook and the Internet and can't find ANYTHING about it! I was invited on a cruise with some friends for later this year, 7 days to the Caribbean. I messaged ...

If it happens again, you should contact your case manager right away and explain what happened. I missed a check in at one time, my case manager called me back and said I wasn't selected to test that day so I was fine, she said in the future I shou...

I started the TPAPN program on December 18, 2013. I was released to return to work after I completed PHP, around the middle of January.

This happened to me once, someone accidentally took my card, I guess. It had about two weeks worth of meetings on it, and I was so upset! My NA friends said they would take care of me =). So what we did was print out another card and passed it arou...

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I am in Texas, I have recently been selected to test twice on weekends (both times on Saturday, once each in Nov and Dec). I had to call in and they gave me a location to go test at. This is a fairly recent change, I'm told. I know of a couple oth...

I took out FAFSA loans and and paid them mostly back while I was in school. I used my tuition reimbursement from my employer plus my yearly income tax refunds to pay off nearly 14000 in loans before I graduated. When I took my NCLEX I only had abou...

I just wanted to share some experience, strength, and hope with my fellow nurses in recovery. I am in the DFW area in Texas, currently in TPAPN. I have been clean almost seven months. It IS possible to find a job! I found my first TPAPN-friendly ...

Don't just surrender your license. Not sure what state you are in but there is probably a recovery monitoring program you can enroll in. I am in Texas, I entered TPAPN and my license is in good standing. If you look up my license I don't even have...

I actually had an active script in the previous six months, so my UA was reported as "negative." None of the opiates or amphetamines I had been taking showed up, miraculously, even though I had taken those less than 48 hours before testing. However...

It showed up on mine when I got busted and fired from my ER job. And I had not had any in about three days.

I am almost two years into my three year contract with TPAPN. I have had it take up to ten days to post results, but I've never had anything other than a negative result. I asked about it at the place where I go to take my tests (they've gotten to ...

All the advice I've been given has been to wait until the end of the interview, or to wait until an offer has been made. That being said, I totally disagreed and I've NEVER followed this advice. I always tell them when they ask about my prior employ...

What state are you in?

Twoyearnurse, how do you switch to hair follicle testing? Do you just request it from your case manager?

In addition to all the other things that have been said, you also can say in job interviews that you self-reported. "I reported myself" sounds a lot better than "they reported me."

My experience in TPAPN has been very positive. The 90 meetings/90 days requirement got me involved with a wonderful NA group, I have a support group of fellow addicts who include an FNP and several other women who work in the health care industry. ...

You should go ahead and self-report to TPAPN, since the board is already referring you it will definitely happen. Self-reporting may speed the process up. I don't know about what/when to tell your current employer, but I highly recommend getting in...

You can still use your nursing degree in non-medical capacities. My friend, for example, just got a job working as a case monitor for Alcon.

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I just saw that my case manager replied, the email notification went to my junk mail so I didn't see it until now. She said I can go =). And, yes, she also said I need to request it in recovery trek. There is also a FAQ about travel, I never even t...

Oh, and I've been in TPAPN since Dec 2013, have already met the one year work requirement, and haven't had any positive drug screens.

Remember that nursing school test questions are generally (unless otherwise stated) based in the assumption of a "perfect" medical setting...that is, even if in reality the nurse is never just waiting for the patient to walk into the room because, yo...

I don't see that anyone has mentioned psychiatric nursing, yet. I am in TPAPN and work in a psych hospital. We have several TPAPN nurses working there. A number of psych facilities around here hire TPAPN nurses, but I'm in the DFW area. It's defi...