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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    ^^^^^This exponentially!!! What is supposedly a "disease" (even by the 12 step gods that infect these programs) is considered a crime to be punished for us for no other reason than we hold a...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I actually self reported over a psychiatric thing. I was dumb enough to think that they were there to help me. Yeah. I had no idea just how badly i was shooting myself in the foot. I was under the...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh. Let's see...make it impossible to get job + make it impossible to end contract without having had a job = never ending money faucet. Any other way they could come up with to make this harder and...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    If anything useful at all comes out of the weekly nurse support groups, I have heard of people who work off their key restriction via volunteer work at low income clinics and the like. Usually you can...
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    Diphenhydramine

    catsmeow1972 replied to RestingNurseFace's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I found something in the participant manual that where it says that they don't support the use of "mood or mind altering substances," where it further states that they do not support the "long term or...
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    Negative UDS.. how on earth???

    catsmeow1972 replied to StillRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    If I had that much going on in that short of an amount of time, I'd be making darn sure they had every last bit of paper faxed to them ASAP that justified why and how you were given whatever. I'd also...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well, Not surprisingly, I have been either ignored or outright rejected by several retail establishments. (Including Target, hah,) That leaves me with a couple of options. I can A: sit on my tail, do...
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    List the most frivolous complaints you've received

    catsmeow1972 replied to gardenpartyy's topic in Private Duty

    Chop wood? I'm sorry, was I absent the day that was covered in class. I also don't remember it being on my clinical skills check off.í
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    Final Word from the BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to PixieRN1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I am very happy that it went like that for you. At some point you will be able to put this completely behind you. I wish mine had been the same. Unfortunately it was quite the opposite. I had self...
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    I can handle just about anything...

    catsmeow1972 replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    Admittedly, I am not a school nurse, but i once had an adult patient (not developmentally disabled or anything, just ahhh...not a nice individual) do that. i honestly got in trouble for being lousy at...
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    HPMP

    catsmeow1972 replied to VARNhosp88's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah but y'know these things will take anything, especially so close to the end, to trip you up and try to either suck more $$$ out of you or use it as a pretense to extend the contract. Not sure if...
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    Drug test randomness???

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    And now for today's complaint... Just curious, how much do these programs gouge us all for pee tests and how often? Just sort of an informal poll. Here in the lovely sunshine state we get hit for $55...
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    Drug test randomness???

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Having testing more appropriately targeted to the reason a person is in this boat would make entirely too much sense. I can see more frequent picks right at the beginning or in the face of relapses,...
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    HPMP

    catsmeow1972 replied to VARNhosp88's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Nothing like being so frightened of a dilute that you put your own health at risk by not drinking enough and probably walking around incubating a chronic UTI. Never thought I'd be appreciative of the...
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    Likelihood of vinaigrette causing false positive?

    catsmeow1972 replied to stickybun's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Welcome to the world of monitoring mind *******. You will spend the next several years being paranoid of everything you eat, drink or dang near touch. There is so much urban legend/misinformation/non...
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    WV restore/reported to BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to Faceless927's topic in Nurses Recovery

    While I know that there are folks that have benefited immensely from these programs and that may have been the original intention, it does by no means justify the wholesale abuse and damage that is...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've done my time working in nursing and everything else. I have no more work restrictions other than that said employer has to be told about the contract and have the chat with the "minder.". I guess...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't work right now. I think with working keeping me so off kilter, it might be healthier to just not. Besides, the more I am forced to be in contact with these clowns, the more frazzeled i get and...
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    Already been told I shouldn't be a nurse (Rant)

    catsmeow1972 replied to misskayy's topic in General Students

    Waayyyyy back when I was in school (not so far that we charted on rocks with a hammer and chisel, now) there was always that one instructor that the class ahead of us talked about how "she flunks...
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    Drug tests

    catsmeow1972 replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Not a like as i like, it's a like as in I understand. At least for mine they wanted all kinds of info like my therapists name, my primary care docs name, the pharmacy I use, all kinds of personal...
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    job approval

    catsmeow1972 replied to ericninetwo's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'd be on them daily. That's bull cookies. The facility may be okay with waiting but you're right. "Your just going to have to wait" is not an acceptable answer. Your monitor sounds completely...
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    Drug tests

    catsmeow1972 replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    With the only residual being the mark on the license, this actually seems reasonable in comparison to the gauntlet that a lot of us have been shoved through. So many of these "alternative to...
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    TPAPN cost of drug testing

    catsmeow1972 replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    In my state, Affinity is used. The normal going rate for the P test is $55. The on site demand for payments are indeed collection site fees. Here, there's some sort of contract with LabCorp that has...
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    Nurses to The People: we did not fail you, you failed us.

    catsmeow1972 replied to RNingBSNing's topic in General Nursing

    The days of sweeping in like Florence Nightingale disappeared a long, long, long.....long time ago. Over the last several years i have worked myself into a deep hole, trying to be perfect, horrified...
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    Diphenhydramine

    catsmeow1972 replied to RestingNurseFace's topic in Nurses Recovery

    All this is another example of the "net cast too far and too wide" issue of these programs. Watching for the alcohol in Nyquil or the abusive risks of various cold medicines is one thing if you are...