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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Their being diagnosed with a substance use disorder based on what the evaluator says. Never mind the results of any test. I got (supposedly) full copies of both the evaluations I've had to have (the...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah, that's about right. Treat them all the same, give them all identical contracts regardless of what brought them there. Makes it easier. Don't have to actually be concerned about what might be...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I went down the road of the medical billing and coding. Even still carry the credential. Problem is that with a nursing background (what are you going to put on you resume that you've done for the...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree with you completely on the "it won't happen to me " syndrome. No question about that. But where these programs are concerned, they are so two-faced. Advocacy is claimed. Punishment is handed...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The impulsiveness of youth is indeed very powerful and no amount of helicopter parenting is going compensate for that. Shoot, helicopter parenting I think just makes things worse. More than lack of...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't know for sure. I would just be sure that if that's the road you chose, you voluntary relinquished instead of allowed them to take it. The only vague thing I remember (from a post here way back...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    People have thrown in the towel and walked away. The problem is that as Far as I know, in order to get any other kind of Depertment of Health license, the nursing one would have to be clear. I also...
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    Evaluation scaries

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ditto with the flashback inducing, except the ****hole I wound up At, I am pretty sure did not take insurance. A I recall, they'd take the pittance a policy offered if your policy paid for...
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    Working non nursing jobs while in contract

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I unfortunately work for a grocery establishment (albeit a decent one) a mile from my house AND about 2 miles from the hospital. No one outside of my supervisor knew about the contract because it was...
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    Any actual success with attorney?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't see you as dissing servers and I am not dissing the folks I work with at my retail job. Most of my co-workers are actually rather fun, decent people. It's just this is what I did while I was...
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    New grad monitoring

    catsmeow1972 replied to coffeemanic's topic in Nurses Recovery

    For starters, congrats on your graduation! Second, if what the BON is telling you to do is only for a year and remains confidential and has no impact on your search for a job (no stipulations on what...
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    Any actual success with attorney?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The way Stepper explains it, it sounds like such a set up could be done ethically and appropriately. There is certainly a place for such a multi day evaluation to be done. There's nothing wrong with...
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    Any actual success with attorney?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The twitch with the "3-5 day evaluation" being a lie and it turning out to be merely the first week of the standard 90 day inpatient program that they "recommend" (aka grab everyone's license by the...
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    Any actual success with attorney?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I do think that a lawyer would do you good for a couple of reasons. 1. In my case, the "5 day evaluation" was the lie I was told that I needed a "3-5 day neuropsychiatric evaluation" (of course only...
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    need advice from anyone in Arkansas that been on probation and had a positive UDS.

    catsmeow1972 replied to AnhayRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    As I recall you had this same piece of derisive "advice" to someone else dealing with this issue, on another thread. I would like to mention a reminder that this specific forum is for support,...
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    Over 2 years now , do I need a lawyer?

    catsmeow1972 replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It might not be a bad idea. You've done everything they supposedly want you to do (except puke up a metric ton of money to shove into the pockets of some useless program. I would think that the BON...
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    Negative drug screen and jobplace still wants me to meet with IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Cpblondie81's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This all goes back to why you should not submit to any IPN evaluation with an attorney in your corner. Any crooked, excuse me, irresponsible evaluator (see the interview I cited further back in...
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    Negative drug screen and jobplace still wants me to meet with IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Cpblondie81's topic in Nurses Recovery

    That is usually how those work. The independent lab that runs the pre-employment testing sees a positive for something. The MRO reviews it against a valid script provided at time of testing. Result is...
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    Slowly but Surely

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    :up::up:Yay....
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    Negative drug screen and jobplace still wants me to meet with IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Cpblondie81's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Even if the screen was positive for benzos, there's a valid prescription and prescriber's opinion that it's not being abused. The crooked excuses for evaluators would twist that into a need for...
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    Negative drug screen and jobplace still wants me to meet with IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Cpblondie81's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Honestly I would not email your boss. Retain your attorney and have ALL communication go through him/her. Have NO further communication with them, except what the attorney advises you to do (maybe a...
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    Nervous!! Counting down the days....

    catsmeow1972 replied to Nurse8204's topic in Nurses Recovery

    For those of us who have been around here a while, after seeing what SoraKs (Wizard1) went through at the end of her contract, I think the "coming down to the end" paranoia is quite justified. We all...
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    Negative drug screen and jobplace still wants me to meet with IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Cpblondie81's topic in Nurses Recovery

    ^^^^This x 1000 Can I like this many many times?? Truth to the Nth
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    Negative drug screen and jobplace still wants me to meet with IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Cpblondie81's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The excuse du jour being used when they can't dig up any other remotely believeable excuse that might even hold water to shove a person into some kind of "treatment" (that the evaluator has a...
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    Vaping

    catsmeow1972 replied to jerseygirlxox's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Huh. That is interesting. I grew up Catholic, replete with 12 years of Catholic school, but have Orthodox Jewish family roots....no wonder I'm in therapy...jeez. Hence the vague knowledge of kosher....