catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    Countdown roll call

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh we're down to 35. Believe you me, I'm a paying
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    IPN multiple day evaluation

    catsmeow1972 replied to MoseleyMO's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The two things that make me sad about your story is that 1) some individuals’s ‘clinical professional’ opinion of your risk of relapse turned, not on your support system, previous IOP,...
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    IPN multiple day evaluation

    catsmeow1972 replied to MoseleyMO's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The intial was Gainesville. I balked at going back there for the multi day. They gave me another option which turned out to be just as bad if not worse. Carbon copy in terms of appalling lack of...
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    IPN multiple day evaluation

    catsmeow1972 replied to MoseleyMO's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh....be so very careful. This sounds like the carbon copy of my experience with an initial evaluation at the same place (I have suspicions who saw you but TOS says I can’t say) that...
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    Board Ordered IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to RNMOM1213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don’t think so. My understanding is that if board ordered (as in your license has a ‘yes’ under administrative complaint and a ‘yes’ under link to discipline, which then some nosy Nancy...
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    Have I finally adjusted emotionally to being stigmatized?

    catsmeow1972 replied to catmom1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I long ago gave up trying to explain just how permanent the ‘black mark’ of these probation/monitoring/punishment/whatever programs are. People that have not been in this hell don’t realize how...
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    Countdown roll call

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I’ve got nothing to be sentimental about with this hell. I don’t want any reminders of any of it, bad or indifferent (can’t fathom anything good about it, other than the amusement I got out of...
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    Jobs while license is suspended

    catsmeow1972 replied to FL_RN5375's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The problems that you might find with coding is that 1)it’s a lot harder than you think. You are dealing with CPT codes and ICD 10/11 or whatever the current number is. 2) the market is saturated....
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    Countdown roll call

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I actually have historically left those questions blank because IMO, monitoring is about my nursing practice, not my personal life. Who or what I might be dating is completely irrelevant to my...
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    Countdown roll call

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    46 and counting. I got thwacked with Testing WEEKLY for about 6 weeks running back in April/May. This is up from the last 5 years of 2x a month with the very occasional 3rd chucked in for their...
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    Being harassed while on Vdap

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    As I’ve said before, these programs operate on a culture of fear. As long as you fear for your livelihood, they have control. You refused to give this creep and the prior creep control, don’t let...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sure. Anything I can help with. I’m in a Florida but as I said it looks as though Kentucky is just as draconian. For private messaging, you’ve got to have 15 posts. I would say peruse the various...
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    Being harassed while on Vdap

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My recommendation. Absolutely not. This is not YOUR legal trouble. My interpretation of ‘legal troubles of the civil nature’ is speeding tickets that result in court appearances and the like. In...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Okay, for starters, breathe....deep breath, in and out. No hyperventilating. Im not in Kentucky but the descriptions above mirror the one I am swimming through. In answer to your question of why you...
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    Scared.. but not guilty!

    catsmeow1972 replied to fergij's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I’ve got less than 2 months left and the general lack of trust/ethics/brains/common sense caused by these programs has me a bit (okay, maybe more than a bit) paranoid of anything going awry. At...
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    What happens when you decide not to move forward with IPN's recommendations?

    catsmeow1972 replied to MFTinRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Define “central coast?” As in in Florida or another state. If you are referring to Florida, yeah people do get to the end. Eventually. I know of a few. None without a few bumps, at least....if you...
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    Countdown roll call

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It’s all random, don’t ya know. //sarcasm” I’m coming down to the end of 5 years, thank the deity of your choice. I thought it would never get here. Back last year, mine inexplicably added...
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    Testing Frequency Towards the End of Contract

    catsmeow1972 replied to willow14's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Mine is/was supposedly (I don’t believe a ***** thing regarding this, at least mine anyway) “24-27 times per year. This was in the little ‘book ‘o rules’ that we have to follow yet the...
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    WV restore/reported to BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to Faceless927's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I’m not in WV but most of these programs run more or less the same. I’m going to guess that what they describe as a contract modification is rather fuzzy. Here it’s called ‘transitional...
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    WV restore/reported to BON

    catsmeow1972 replied to Faceless927's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Not that I know of. I tried myself. Once they’ve got you in the pen, the cash cow isn’t getting out of that gate. Even my lawyer said to not hold my breath, it was a long
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    IPN Contracts

    catsmeow1972 replied to lightofthemoon's topic in Nurses Recovery

    IMO....there is nothing any special ‘healthcare provider’ program can offer that is any different than any other rehab, if such a thing is even truly indicated. There’s nothing impartial about...
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    Countdown roll call

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Awesome! 71 day’s here. Haven’t heard word 1 from mine. It’s still early yet, though. The less I have contact with those people the better. Less opportunities for me to insert foot into
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    Florida Board of Health Suspends Healthcare Licenses Over Student Loan Defaults

    catsmeow1972 replied to Swellz's topic in Nursing News

    And in those 2 years plus time on probation, how many people are churned out and either unable to pass the NCLEX (if I am correct, those numbers are ‘first time’ attempts, yes?) on the first shot...
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    Florida Board of Health Suspends Healthcare Licenses Over Student Loan Defaults

    catsmeow1972 replied to Swellz's topic in Nursing News

    Mmm...maybe in your area, yes...but this is a problem nationwide and not just in nursing. Many people are mired in student loan debt from private schools/programs that fibbed about their accreditation...
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    shift preference? and pigeon-holed new grad?

    catsmeow1972 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Operating Room

    I went from OR scrub tech to nurse and fresh out of school, I had the idea that I could launch myself into a surgical ICU job. After all, I “knew” aaalllll about surgery, right?? Yeah, okay. 3...