catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    Work under IPN contract

    catsmeow1972 replied to daliafriar's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I am a career OR nurse so it was a bit tough for me. My first job was a shithole tiny little place that I took out of desperation (I had to move for it too, ugh!). That was about 5 months into the...
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    Work under IPN contract

    catsmeow1972 replied to daliafriar's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I did not mention the contract until the end on the interview at the point when I was asked if I had any questions. This was where I would say “well, no questions, but there is this matter...
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    toxic culture, materialism, and unionism

    catsmeow1972 replied to servantleader2020's topic in General Nursing

    From your story, it sounds to me that the union had little to do with the issues here. The union likely was not specific to the OR. Rather this OR sounds toxic as hell. I’ve been in such situations...
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    Postive THC random test

    catsmeow1972 replied to RN117's topic in Nurses Recovery

    While yes, what we do in our own home, in our off time is our business, until it can be proven that there is a definitive amount of time that can elapse between partaking of such a substance and being...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Heh, Scholarship, that’s a pipe dream. I don’t mean to chuckle, but it’s a very sad reality that there are people drummed out of these things and their previous ‘confidential’ sins made...
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    How long does this take ?!?!? Please help!

    catsmeow1972 replied to Jim Rockford's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This ^^^^^^
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    Contact after completion of monitoring program?

    catsmeow1972 replied to RK08's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You will be. I honestly think that those programs create more psychological abuse than is necessary, not that abuse should even be in the equation. Given the culture of fear, lack of credible...
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    Contact after completion of monitoring program?

    catsmeow1972 replied to RK08's topic in Nurses Recovery

    On the stupid ‘evaluation’ of thier program that I had to fill out and return, as in they supposedly wanted my opinion (really?, right, I’m sure they did, cough, cough, snort!) ironically BEFORE...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The thread is Florida IPN....that’s should be a dead giveaway on the state...just sayin’. LabCorp is one of the big pee testing companies. Y’know ‘outpatient lab on every corner’. Kinda...
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    Managing chronic insomnia with RX meds while on TPAPN?

    catsmeow1972 replied to AesthesiaSeeker's topic in Nurses Recovery

    These programs (despite the claim that "they don't tell your doctor's what they can and can't prescribe") don't care one whit why you are in their clutches. They don't care what worked for you before...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    That I am not sure. I suppose it depends on how fast they are moving. I think wherever you go for the treatment has to submit their ‘recommendations’ (like don’t expect it to be for anything...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ah yes, the ‘individualized contract’ whereupon the stipulations are essentially the same for everyone. Unless things have changed recently, standard stips in a 5 year sentence are no overtime, no...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    About a year before I was done, we all got notified that you may notice an increase in testing as it is a valuable tool in your recovery.” Whatever the heck that meant. I believe that it translated...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Again...citing my personal experience and not referencing any specific people/places, etc. I’ve observed that frequently the operators of these things were at one time in licensing troubles...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    That, I believe is pretty much how this works. I have never known of anyone (without a lawyer and a protracted fight in front of the board anyway, and even then) that walks into an evaluation with any...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I have an email I use to discuss this specific issue [email protected] feel free to email me
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Terms of Service here at AN state that we can’t discuss specific doctors/lawyers etc but the best I can say is that that I would’nt. My personal opinion is that it’s not possible to use the...
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    Managing chronic insomnia with RX meds while on TPAPN?

    catsmeow1972 replied to AesthesiaSeeker's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Despite the anxiety diagnosis (forced 12 step meeting attendance was great at inducing that issue to the point that my therapist recommended that stipulation be removed....that of course was ignored,...
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    Fed up!!

    catsmeow1972 replied to Siciliyisbest's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sadly this is the truth. These programs care NOTHING about your sobriety, your mental health or if you ever work in healthcare again. It Is about money and only money and mostly a bunch of people with...
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    Sudafed

    catsmeow1972 replied to Tiger daddy's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I stayed stuffed up for 5 years and I wasn’t even sentenced to this garbage for any kind of drug or alcohol stuff. 5+ years of no benedryl or real Sudafed....ugh, I’m pretty sure my sinuses were...
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    When does it end? I mean really end?

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    So I’ve been done with the monitoring hell for let’s see, a bit over 6 months now. Prior to the end of that hell, I miraculously landed a decent job, albeit 5 hours from home and family. My...
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    IPN Advice

    catsmeow1972 replied to Murse94's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My dear....at the risk of sounding like a broken record in repeating what everyone else across this forum says...Lawyer up!! Said lawyer will not be able to get you out of having to deal with an IPN...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Aw heck no. Their idea of "early release" is a whopping 60 days. Prior to that, I was told I had to supply a bunch of letters from my shrink, etc and a letter from myself detailing how I thought I'd...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah, I tried to keep contract with my case manager to a minimum. Gave me fewer opportunities to tell her exactly what I thought of her lying asterisk and that POS useless money-grubbing excuse for a...
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    Florida IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to wvnurse2020's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Depending on how much time you have left in your current program (not to mention the ongoing Covid stuff), my honest opinion would be to stick it out where you are at if you can. Like many of these...