catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    Anyone allowed to stay on pain management on TPAPN?

    catsmeow1972 replied to ApriLRNTX's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I got out of the monitoring hell nearly 6 years ago. I made it through the five years without missing a check in, popping a positive or a dilute or anything. When you take a person with OCD and put...
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    Florida evaluator

    catsmeow1972 replied to messedupbigtime's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I can promise you, the governor does not give 2 hoots about this. The 'protecting the public' BS has been hammered into people for decades. You've heard the cliche 'money talks, BS walks?’ Well, the...
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    I completed monitoring

    catsmeow1972 replied to Erin1984's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Congratulations! For me too, this forum was very helpful. For information and for a place to vent. It was very anticlimactic. I still did that silly check in for a few days after, until the...
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    Florida IPN saga continues

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Nurses Recovery

    What's done is done, however going forward I would remember that HR exists to protect the facility. They don't care whether you are right or wrong. I had pretty much the same issue in the first crappy...
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    Life after IPN…..

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hi all, I have not been on this site in quite some time as my 'sentence' in IPN ended a bit over 4 years ago. I chose to pull back from being here so often as I thought it important to get on with my...
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    Life after IPN…..

    catsmeow1972 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I do understand the point of the 12 step meetings for those in for SUD. Me, I self reported over a mental health issue. In my state, they treat everyone like an addict fixing to relapse. They forced...
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    Florida IPN saga continues

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Some states have passed rules that eliminate disciplinary action after a certain number of years; But in Florida that record remains, "protecting the public" even after we're dead. Our ancestors can...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah, my finish was very anticlimactic. A phone call from the b**** case manager and an emailed generic form letter followed by a hard copy. Mine made us do a silly 'exit interview.’ Basically a...
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    IPN needs reforms and oversight? yes, please!

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Read in its entirety: A Call for Rational Reform of IPN and PRN Laws and Regulations I couldn't get this to post as an article, so here is the link. It is from late 2021 but clearly, someone...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I dunno, the crime syndicate that is the Florida program started doing Peth testing on a regular basis because ‘it was an additional tool to assist us in our recovery’ or some such BS. Rather...
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    Florida IPN saga continues

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Being stuck in that BS supposed rehab ( I self reported over a mental health crisis… how drug rehab was supposed to be any use whatsoever is beyond me). I was so clueless that I didn’t even...
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    Success stories of using attorney vs IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to LittleRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yes! Get an attorney. The expense of having a relationship with a good one. If we are talking Florida, there 2 big firms that specialize in this stuff. TOS says I can't name them but I had one on the...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Granted I’ve been out of IPN for almost 3 glorious years but in my seemingly never ending time there, I managed to never have a dilute pee. How, you ask? Well I did the stupid checkin at 4am on the...
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    IPN 40 hour restrictions

    catsmeow1972 replied to Merrieberry's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Absolutely. Staying until your relief gets in does not constitute an extra shift. Considering that I am pretty sure the clowns that run this show have not been anywhere near an actual patient in a...
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    IPN 40 hour restrictions

    catsmeow1972 replied to Merrieberry's topic in Nurses Recovery

    No, IPN does not get any copies of your time card. These people lead you to be paranoid enough that you would think they did. Unless things have changed, the only thing they get is the little...
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    IPN/IME

    catsmeow1972 replied to LMA's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh yes, a scam to the Nth power. I am 2 years past getting out of the claws of those crooks and still have issues. Discipline that never should have been made public yet was. A suspension that never...
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    Kentucky Board KARE

    catsmeow1972 replied to tarab333's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Florida is another state that makes stuff public and even after you make to the other side of your sentence, it never goes away. Confidential, my orifice. Also common is shoddy, half *** paperwork...
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    Nurse support group.

    catsmeow1972 replied to LostinIndy's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Not quite 2 years into my contract, I got pulled out of the In-person support group and dropped into an online thing they were ‘trialing’. It was fine by me as it seemed to be the singular...
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    Florida IPN saga continues

    catsmeow1972 replied to Ipnsux's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I’ts been nearly 2 years since I’ve been out of the clutches of those horrible people. Because I was fortunate enough to be able to move (had to multiple times during that joke of a contract...
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    I'm Tired & Weary, Why is This Profession So Cut Throat?

    catsmeow1972 replied to K. Everly's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My experience gave me a great case of PTSD that I didn’t have before. I’m one of those with mental health diagnosis yet was dumped into a program that for some baffling reason thought 6 months of...
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    Blast from the past!

    catsmeow1972 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The most satisfying ‘thunk’ ever was me dropping all that garbage into the trash can. I had dragged those two file boxes through several moves as I had to go where I could find employment...
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    Needing surgery in Recovery

    catsmeow1972 replied to gandorx's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Back when (blessedly a few years now) I had an elective procedure. I had lost a large amount of weight, had an issue of excess skin. Since I wasn’t working at the time (I had given up fighting those...
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    Pennsylvania RN with first dui help with PNAP

    catsmeow1972 replied to Jhope41831's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was not in PNAP but rather IPN, which is Florida’s program. They are all scrapped from the same pile of poo though. The best source for you would be ‘SpankedinPittsburgh’. He’s out now but...
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    Revoked CA Nursing License so Alabama BON To Bring Charges On 25 Year Expired License

    catsmeow1972 replied to Babushka1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    That is such BS. IMO, that sounds like someone looked at those documents and thought “oooohhh, we can trap another person into puking up money to justify our (for a large share of our victims)...
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    Are these costs tax deductible?

    catsmeow1972 replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    For the majority of my contract I claimed the tests as an I reimbursed medical expense. For much of that time I actually had a low enough income (SSDI and crummy near minimum wage jobs) and/or enough...