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    get a job before peer program?

    catsmeow1972 replied to lifewithoutrn's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Do not speak to any one from the board or any program with out talking to an attorney first. Check with TAANA or google nursing license defense lawyer for your state. Maybe expensive but will be well...
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    Quitting IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to RiNlimbo's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm not sure a letter to the BON would help. They pretty much don't care. IPN is an independent entity. Check your participant manual AKA book o 'punishment for what they say they do when you choose...
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    Quitting IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to RiNlimbo's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I presume your contract requires 12 months of nursing practice. I would wager that IPN will tell you that CNA work does not count. In spite of that, You have gotten this far. You made it through...
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    Criminal charges!

    catsmeow1972 replied to RN0904's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Given that anything that is criminal eventually makes its way to the BON no matter if it was a nursing related offense or not (that's how people with a DUI on vacation that is a single bad choice get...
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    Working non nursing jobs while in contract

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    For those of us who are or were in non nursing jobs while under contract either by force or by choice, I am curious about how you handled it. I am currently in a retail job, partly for both reasons....
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    PNAP and wasting

    catsmeow1972 replied to harleedog's topic in Nurses Recovery

    See my post on the other thread where you had this question. Expanding on that, make these people be crystal clear on what you are required to do for the duration of this thing. They wrote it and if...
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    Working non nursing jobs while in contract

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would not even waste in my opinion. Just from observation over the years I have seen that, in my state anyway, "I didn't know..." doesn't fly, especially if it concerns the same thing that brought...
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    RN in Florida IPN program

    catsmeow1972 replied to Alphabug82's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Y'know that "nursing gut feeling" we get after having been in this for so many years? We know there's something not right. Not sure what it is or even if it's happened yet, it just is? That "sounds a...
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    RN in Florida IPN program

    catsmeow1972 replied to Alphabug82's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My biggest piece of advice is to deeply research the options you are given for where to have this initial evaluation. If you see someone attached to a treatment facility, you can bet your sweet bippy,...
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    Curiosity

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexNurse777's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My opinion is with the studies that go with vapor in the immediate testing vicinity or direct contamination. An example might be a tech slathering on the sanitizer while you go pee and then putting on...
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    IPN new blood testing changes

    catsmeow1972 replied to pinky88's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Negotiated lower? Forgive the early morning snark but doubly forgive me for not being grateful for having to pay for yet another irrelevant test that means nothing and serves only to empty my bank...
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    New to Alabama VDAP

    catsmeow1972 replied to StanleyJ's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My experience with 'professionals programs' is that they are nothing but a thinly veiled method of sucking you dry for money. If a person is in need of rehab, how are they any different than anyone...
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    At a crossroad

    catsmeow1972 replied to Jas10's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Number 3 is not stupid at all. You had a lot get dumped on you all at once. The last time I checked we all were human and you had a human reaction that was an unwise decision. You should not beat on...
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    Nurses help me

    catsmeow1972 replied to milo65's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Lapse of judgement or whatever, it sounds highly unlikely that you will escape a trip through the gauntlet of IPN. My suggestion is to get that attorney NOW, BEFORE making that call to IPN. As someone...
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    FL IPN Drug testing

    catsmeow1972 replied to Sara3018's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would presume that they test for pretty much everything. 12-15 panel is a given plus what ever "special" thing catches fancy at the moment. I would think that so long as you are keeping to the...
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    STARTING FL IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Junebug59's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Depends on where you are going for your evaluation as those 'recommendations' are what play a gigantic role in what your contract is. I put that in quotes because at least in my experience there...
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    TPAPN RANT

    catsmeow1972 replied to Kel65's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ditto that. My career and everything I have worked for has been destroyed because I had the audacity to have a mental illness. I have been treated like an individual with substance issues and while I...
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    Does being an R.N. mean we cannot be human?

    catsmeow1972 replied to mom35's topic in Nurses Recovery

    And if the monitoring programs were truly the 'extra support' that some of them claim to be, it would be one thing. However what we have is the 'profit driven BS' that Spanked speaks of. We have...
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    Headaches, TPAPN.

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ash2213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sweets, you have to care of you, above all. Go see your PCP. See what they recommend. CT to rule out anything scary is none of any programs business. IF the need arises then notify your CM. I find it...
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    COC Form

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexNurse777's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This is only one of my reasons why I refuse to go anywhere but to the same LabCorp location every. Single. Time. Primarily it's because I won't give this extortion racket a nickel more than I must in...
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    Anyone else being GPS tracked?

    catsmeow1972 replied to RN0904's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well, with parts of your post....yes and no. NOT everybody stuck in this mess 'likely broke the law, committed a felony, etc, etc.'. These programs suck people in for far far more than those reasons,...
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    How common is inpatient treatment ordered

    catsmeow1972 replied to BoardofNSG's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It seems to depend on where you are sent for the evaluation, wether or not said evaluator is financially attached to some kind of treatment facility and if ability to pay (either insurance or cold...
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    Anyone else being GPS tracked?

    catsmeow1972 replied to RN0904's topic in Nurses Recovery

    In Florida, if you are not working, your home address is posted and publicized on your license. Apparently if you are employed, your employers address is on there. I have mine 'indicated that I am not...
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    Getting back to work and interviewing....ugh!...

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've been off for the last year or so because I have found that navigating the employment world with the ball and chain of a contract to be just too **** much. The jobs I've been able to land have...
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    Getting back to work and interviewing....ugh!...

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Me neither. I mentioned the contract in the interview. NM pretty much said oh okay and we moved on to schedules, call responsibilities, etc, etc. business cards and so forth. My guess it was a...