catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    School nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yep, Florida. And yes..192 days to go, not counting, no not at all?. I’ve always been in the OR but IPN seems to have firmly put the nails in the coffin on that part of my career for
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    Thinking about NP school

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    this^^^ Having been chained to this hell for a snip over 5 years now and soon to be done, thank the deity of your choosing, I can tell you that it is difficult find an NP program for this very reason....
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    Experience with NC alternative program?

    catsmeow1972 replied to xenocidezero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    From my experience, IPN does not put much stock in statements that are not from thier stable of evaluators. Please correct me if I am wrong but you made a bad judgement call, got UA’d at work and...
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    My last Day

    catsmeow1972 replied to Oogie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Congrats! Another one realeased from this
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    stress management classes - CA Probation

    catsmeow1972 replied to ericninetwo's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I find the last 5+ years to have been a giant exercise in irony. Here’s my course on stress management— lesson 1: don’t get bamboozled into the organized crime-like rackets that are the current...
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    Affinity...

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    I really wanted to label this “The sneaky underhandedness of Affinity.” Am I the only one that thinks it’s sleazy that when you hand over the pound of flesh to Affinty, you have to scroll down...
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    Does the R in RN stand for reject?

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    I’m beginning to wonder. I have applied to every ******* hospital within a reasonable (and a few unreasonable) driving distance for an OR job since that’s the only the thing I know how to do....
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    Termination reported to BON?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nycmoon's topic in Nurses Recovery

    As in from your job? It would depend why. If it was because you were late or called in too many times or other “benign” issues, then I would seriously doubt it. If it was related to drug/alcohol...
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    Florida Board of Health Suspends Healthcare Licenses Over Student Loan Defaults

    catsmeow1972 replied to Swellz's topic in Nursing News

    I prefer not to discuss that in this particular thread as it will veer off the original topic, thank
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    Florida Board of Health Suspends Healthcare Licenses Over Student Loan Defaults

    catsmeow1972 replied to Swellz's topic in Nursing News

    I’ll be paying mine off until I die anyway and since I can’t get a job, I do paperwork every year that reduces my payment to zero. The interest keeps compounding and the balance just goes up and
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    pregnant in monitoring?

    catsmeow1972 replied to Rdsrn's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Last time I had surgery (it’s been quite some time), they still tried to call me for randoms, knowing full and well I was still on meds that would have shown (that they WERE GIVEN script copies...
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    A Chance

    catsmeow1972 replied to 1nurse4job's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Right now I am trying to chip at the job that I *had* that was ruined for me by my lovely program. Not going into those details, but suffice it to say I was hired and had a start date and a signed...
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    Testing!

    catsmeow1972 replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    When I actually HAD a job, for the most part it was still the requisite 2x a month. I counted myself lucky when it was in a non workday. I tried to work as many sat/sun as I could get away with being...
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    Worst Nursing Scrub Color Worn?

    catsmeow1972 replied to RNliveoak's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Purple...I worked at the VA in the OR. As we had to change in and out upon arrival and leaving work, said purple scrubs were not to be seen leaving the building. We’d go down to the cafeteria and...
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    Finally off orientation!

    catsmeow1972 replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Congrats on making it. I knew you would. I think I speak for all of us that have been out of circulation for a while when I say that our confidence has taken a beating. Unfortunately the peer...
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    LIES About LPN's and LVN's

    catsmeow1972 replied to Divine-LPN,BSN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Here’s a slightly different angle....RN= those who have the “luxury” aka the time, money and opportunity to spend in an RN nursing program, right out of the gate. LPN= those who need/want to get...
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    Coming home (aka) returning to OR

    catsmeow1972 replied to SandraCVRN's topic in Operating Room

    I’ve worked in crummy ORs where the job itself was easy for those exact reasons...problems occurs? Someone, somewhere knows how to fix it. I’ve worked in great ORs where it was the same thing....
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    Florida Board of Health Suspends Healthcare Licenses Over Student Loan Defaults

    catsmeow1972 replied to Swellz's topic in Nursing News

    If the act isn’t bad enough, the way it’s done is to file an administrative complaint. Said administrative complaint is the tool that is used to suspend these people’s licenses. So for all the...
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    What is up with these Sickle Cell Patients?!

    catsmeow1972 replied to BrandNewbieNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I spent a year working in a small town ER and have memories of 2 standout patients. The best way to describe this town was ‘if Mayberry had a ghetto.’ Biggest employers were the prisons and Wal...
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    OFFICALLY DONE WITH 3 YEAR PROBATION!

    catsmeow1972 replied to Anon143's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Congrats! 212 days to go for me...not that I’m counting or anything. This nightmare can’t end any too soon for me or any of the rest of us I am sure. It’s good to see another one get
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    Out of work 4 yrs ?

    catsmeow1972 replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    I’m sort of having the same issue. I had some major life issues that resulted in me having a 5 year dance with my state’s delightful ?? interpretation of a professional assistance program. That...
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    So what have you been doing while the allnurses.com upgrade was happening????

    catsmeow1972 replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Bouncing off the walls since I’ve not had my release for my inner sarcasm. Checking almost daily to see if that red banner of boredom that has been the bane of my writing existence is gone. I look...
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    Quest Options 4-6

    catsmeow1972 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I am REALLY looking forward to the day I can take something for my allergies. My head is stuffed up near constantly from whatever is blooming. It wasn't near as miserable when I worked in the hospital...
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    Has anyone gone through this program without false positives?

    catsmeow1972 replied to StanleyJ's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've never (lord willin' and the creek don't rise) had a dilute etc. either and I'm 4+ years in. I do what Eris does and give them the first pee of the day if I've got to hop in there with my legs...
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    Burning out

    catsmeow1972 replied to VergoRN's topic in General Nursing

    I got the burnout thing too. The thing is, I crashed and and burned in a spectacular way after several years of being the textbook example of not taking care of myself while working in some crummy...