catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    Suspended Licence

    catsmeow1972 replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Absolutely. In my leaky boat where I'm sorry, but I will not apologize for the ‘crime' of having an illness, I should not be surprised that an organization that subscribes to a mixture of power,...
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    Suspended Licence

    catsmeow1972 replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    As vicious and unfair as these contracts can be, once they are signed they need to be adhered to. If you knowingly violate it, a lawyer can't do much. To be completely honest, I can't help but wonder...
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    So much for "step down year" in TPAPN!

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ash2213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    At least with your ‘step down' you get some relief from the money vacuum. Ours doesn't doesn't mean squat unless you are working. The only difference is you can float (so what), you can have...
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    Filing a complaint question

    catsmeow1972 replied to Randomnurse3's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It depends on if the is something going on that would be definitively board reportable. In some diversion cases, I have heard of facilities that will simply tell a person to report to thier states...
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    Suspended Licence

    catsmeow1972 replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I struggle daily against the seemingly endless list of things that frighten me into possibly flunking a P test, probably to the extreme (sampling of apple Chardonnay sausage at Costco?) but then...
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    Checking in

    catsmeow1972 replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Gives me the mental picture that your file got stuck to the bottom of a rusty desk drawer in someone's office somewhere. Or else it got lost and no one at the BON wants to admit that..... As much as I...
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    Suspended Licence

    catsmeow1972 replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ah. I was unaware that there was already a contract/consent agreement and positive ETG in the mix. I was under the impression that this was something new and out of the blue. In which case I defer to...
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    Suspended Licence

    catsmeow1972 replied to PRN4U's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This ^^^^^^. and if for whatever reason you get directed to any "peer assistance" type program (PNAP, IPN, etc.) for any kind of evaluation....also remember they are not you friend and they do not...
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    Nursing Grad dealing with the BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I guess that's good. Hopefully it's because someone figured out that threatening you like that was not a real smart idea. If I may ask what do you plan to do from here? If you apply at a later date,...
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    Seriously?! Grrrr.

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexasMel's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The ******** money vacuuming fraud that masqueraded as a rehab that I did not belong in claimed "individualized treatment." Yeah, no. Same junk, every poor schmuck that was stuck there, unless they...
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    Trump Admin Will Protect Health Workers Who Refuse Services On Religious Grounds

    catsmeow1972 replied to herring_RN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I think (fair warning: my opinion here) that as with many other things the Trump administration is spouting off with new "regulations and directives" without actually spelling out what they mean....
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    Seriously?! Grrrr.

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexasMel's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I have seen nurses who took one look at the costs (and maybe saw right through the associated fraud) of this and said forget it, I can go back to waiting tables or bar tending or whatnot. A couple I...
  13. catsmeow1972

    Suspended license

    catsmeow1972 replied to Indiana RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yours happened pretty much the same way mine did, except nobody was checking the website daily. I actually just happened upon it ACCIDENTALLY!! the weekend after the suspension got handed down (on a...
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    Seriously?! Grrrr.

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexasMel's topic in Nurses Recovery

    If anyone believes any of this is really random, they need to go back to math class. For the longest while, I could set my calendar by them, every two weeks on Thursday. Really? And what the heck was...
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    Suspended license

    catsmeow1972 replied to Indiana RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was already through the horrors of the "treatment" mind**** and had finally found a job and had relocated for said job and had been under contract for almost a year when the BON got around to...
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    Suspended license

    catsmeow1972 replied to Indiana RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Have you tried contacting anyone at the BON directly? I know in my state, that is near impossible. The last time I tried that in my state I got sent to emails that didn't exist and voice mailboxes...
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    Seriously?! Grrrr.

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexasMel's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My compliments to your passive aggressiveness. My geeky little brain has spent entirely too much time considering methods of small harmeless yet amusing revenge on this experience. I must say I have...
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    Nursing Grad dealing with the BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Rarely do I find the need to quote myself but I was re-reading this and realized that the "me" saying this is not who I was when I was back in the beginning of this nightmare. Back when, at the start...
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    7 months to go...and now this

    catsmeow1972 replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I did a brief (not quite 2 years) stint at the VA as a nurse. We were considered civilian Federal. I left because I was at one of the shall I say not so well run facilities and just could not deal...
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    Falsely accused of diversion

    catsmeow1972 replied to Kabhold's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm very glad it was properly investigated and the outcome was as it should have been all along. Hopefully appropriate policy will also be reinforced to prevent something like this from reoccurring....
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    List the most frivolous complaints you've received

    catsmeow1972 replied to gardenpartyy's topic in Private Duty

    That one I had was an adult WC case that I strongly suspect the family was sucking the workers comp claim for every dime they could get. The patient had been trached at one time but wasn't any longer...
  22. catsmeow1972

    Seriously?! Grrrr.

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexasMel's topic in Nurses Recovery

    When I'm finally done with all of this nonsense (which finally there is more behind me than ahead of me) I wonder if I am ever going to be able to sleep past 4 am again. It was fine when I worked...
  23. catsmeow1972

    Recovery Trek

    catsmeow1972 replied to Carriesmith91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This be very true. I should have capitalized the get it in writing part. I have long ago learned to document every. Single. Thing. Communicated to me by board or program because none of them can be...
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    Nursing Grad dealing with the BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Me being me, I'd refuse any manure on the grounds of you displayed "good moral character" by putting it on your app, even though had you waited 8 lousy weeks it would have been a non issue. Not to...
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    Nursing Grad dealing with the BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Get a lawyer ASAP if you have to take out a loan to do it. Do not answer any more of thier questions. For these people to throw lawyers and discipline hearing and so forth at you for a voluntary...