catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I have 3 years, 9 months and 19 days left....but who's counting:yawn: The first thing my therapist said when I saw her after the so-called "treatment" nightmare, was "I bet you've thought more about...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This is more a rant about IPN and Affinity and the constantly flushing money toilet that this is. But hey, its been a minute since i vented about something......So once again, as is my routine, I go...
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    Took a decongestant on the "Class B- Dr Approval Only" list

    catsmeow1972 replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I see where following directions is the key to getting through this stuff. Even though it is an accepted (and stated by several people in the program) point that I am not here because of addiction...
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    Horrible Treatment at Drug Testing

    catsmeow1972 replied to Maria425's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Locking you in sounds to me like holding you hostage. Had you opted to leave (to get kids or whatever) the "noncompliance" issue would have been between you and your monitoring program. The A**hats at...
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    UDS Collection site issues

    catsmeow1972 replied to SororAKS's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Just this past week, I did my check in at 4 something in the morning, because that has always been when I tend to wake up, plus I prefer to go 1st thing in the morning. I am a nonstop water drinker...
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    List the most frivolous complaints you've received

    catsmeow1972 replied to gardenpartyy's topic in Private Duty

    In the first and quite probably the last private duty job i ever did: "you don't do the rest of the dishes in the sink when you clean up after his breakfast." Ummmm...I was the patients nurse, not the...
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    Why I work as an OR RN

    catsmeow1972 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

    I am an OR RN with about 10 years of periop experience under my belt and 5 years of teching prior to that. I love having a good knowledgeable tech in my room because that can make or break your day. I...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't recall directly saying/signing anything that said they could discuss money, etc with them, but frankly who knows. At this point I know in my heart that this whole thing (IPN, the BOH/BON, the...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The wallet biopsy thing was a joke. Nobody, including IPN ever said a thing about going anywhere that was not on their little list for the evaluation. The first eval 'recomnended' an extended...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The "investigative costs" were from the DOH. I've no idea how they arrive at the amounts they do but seemingly it is different for every case. I wonder if someone just throws a dart at a bingo card...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Given that mental health issues are also considered a disability under the ADA (and for Social Security, FYI) I was forced off work over this nightmare for approximately 16 months. Six of that was...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've said it before: if this kind of thing works for you, great. I'm happy there is something out there for you. But you know what? NOT all of us are addicts or have drug problems, etc. I'm sorry I...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I will be fine. I'm a big girl, I can take a little pain. This, to me is one more time when IPN sticks its schnozz into things that they know nothing about and have little to nothing to do with my...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    At the moment i am dealing with a point that is exactly what I was afraid was going to happen eventually. This morning, I face planted on the sidewalk outside my apartment (I am not the most graceful...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yup....even though I was dumb enough to "self-reporting" hoping for some confidentiality, my "grevious sin" and all associated dirty laundry is posted on my license for all to see. Forever after, even...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think they dredged up "opiate dependence" from the fact that over the course of the past 2-3 years before this happened, I had multiple abdominal surgical issues that had me hospitalized a total of...
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    Just whining. Pretty bummed.

    catsmeow1972 replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    $$$.....I think that is how they are allowed to continue, as with all of these kinds of programs for nurses and other professionals alike. That, 500mg q6 hours of not caring a bit about anything but...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    An interesting aside, the initial "approved" places (Talbot being one of them) that my states program directed me to rejected me on the grounds that they could not provide what I needed, which was...
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    Just whining. Pretty bummed.

    catsmeow1972 replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm not sure I have any advice other than the lawyer bit others have put out there. I do know (as does others in our boat) that the BON and these so-called "monitoring" programs honestly do not orbit...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Feel free to join me in my little pot of bitterness. Thanks to this F'd up system, I got 6 months of drug rehab and NO psychiatric care, which was what I needed. I did not need a 6 month mind ****....
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree, someone needs to take on these people, but it will have to be someone who is a. Ready to give up being a nurse and b. Willing to let their privacy be dragged out into the open. I'm sorry to...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hmmm.....i think that the next time they want to stick their beaks into the parts of my medical care that has nothing to do with them, I'll send them the pictures from my last colonoscopy. Just that...
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    IPN issues- 2015

    catsmeow1972 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    So my latest rant is regarding something that I knew was going to come up eventually. I threw my back out yesterday and could barely walk without screaming. Given that I do not have back problems to...
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    Experiences with Maryland alternative-to-discipline program?

    catsmeow1972 replied to newgradmistake's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I self reported regarding a mental health issue. Doing quite nicely now, thanks, however self reporting sounded like a good idea at the time. I thought I was doing the right thing. I have never been...
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    Back after multi year hiatus and in monitoring

    catsmeow1972 replied to SororAKS's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I staunchly refuse to submit to the ___ anonymous thing because my issue is a bipolar/ mental health thing. For some idiotic reason I am stipulated to go to the meetings even though I don't drink,...