Recovering_RN

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  1. Not trying to give up hope

    Recovering_RN replied to Versash's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've always heard dialysis is generally monitoring friendly so keep trying those places, since you have experience. Try looking for a nurse support group if you don't already have one. Other nurses...

  2. Ok I am FREAKING OUT

    Recovering_RN replied to JxoRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I keep a zero balance all the time, then on the day I am selected to test, in Affinity there's a "fund test" or something like that, and I authorize the $55.00 for that day's test. I am quite sure...

  3. Can ketones cause false positive?

    Recovering_RN replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ok, good to know! I'm sitting in the Quest waiting room, so I guess I'll know for sure in a couple

  4. Ok I am FREAKING OUT

    Recovering_RN replied to JxoRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well you won't gain anything by admitting it now. I'd just take the test and hope for the best. Hopefully you'll quit risking it. "I guess I did have a glass of wine".....ummm, you guess??? You deny...

  5. Ok I am FREAKING OUT

    Recovering_RN replied to JxoRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah it's like they don't care that they hold our lives in their hands! It may be that they are intentionally not returning your calls because whatever popped positive now needs to be verified with...

  6. In process, after evaluation, rpp wants 1 year monitoring without having a diagnosis

    Recovering_RN replied to Beazy's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Omg, this is giving me a panic attack!!! NO NO NO! I don't care if it's stupid and unnecessary, as it clearly is, if you signed a contract saying no alcohol then you can't drink!!!! You are SO SO...

  7. Advice on Interviewing

    Recovering_RN replied to 2010rn42's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree with cats, the only people who ever asked me details about why I was in TPAPN were interviewers who knew me personally from previous jobs. Really makes me angry now, knowing it was just...

  8. TPAPN Nurse's

    Recovering_RN replied to Oogie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I suspect it's related to the new quarterly update process they are trying to roll out. I don't know this for sure, and I've been on vacation for a week so I haven't had this discussion with my...

  9. Most of the time I am bitter! TPAPN

    Recovering_RN replied to Ash2213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I fear the false positive too. I think I'm starting to fear that more and more as my completion date gets closer. I have just under 6 months left in TPAPN. As far as explaining your 3 years in psych,...

  10. No alcohol. NONE

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I totally understand what you're going through! I didn't tell anyone except my (ex now) husband and I was stunned to realize how much every social situation in my life revolved around alcohol!...

  11. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm in Texas and for my 3 year contract I am required to work as a nurse for 12 consecutive months during some part of that 3 year time period. There have been nurses who haven't been able to finish...

  12. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't understand how they can justify $3500!! My evaluation was a single day, 3-4 hours, and cost $350 or something like that. Having said that, yes, 3 days would clearly be more in depth and...

  13. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would start by looking at the credentials of the guy that the SC BON recommended, so that your evaluator will be considered "just as good as" theirs. Also, maybe google some substance abuse...

  14. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was thinking about the OP's having to move, and I think probably that wouldn't be necessary. If you're on vacation and get selected to test, you just go to a Quest lab, right? I know TPAPN will give...

  15. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Good! I hope you get everything sorted. In regard to your original post about what to expect in the evaluation, I think they are all different but mine did not include a drug test. I wouldn't be...

  16. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Impulsiveness, yes, partially, but I think maybe another aspect is the ever present "it won't happen to me", whether that thought refers to "I won't get caught" or "I won't get addicted", both...

  17. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was very very close to quitting nursing also. I looked into getting jobs adjacent to the medical field, like teaching nurses how to use the electronic health record, which I've done PRN before. But...

  18. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Is there a list like that? TPAPN gave me 3 names and I could choose from them. I just picked mine randomly, and got lucky. I was recommended to go to IOP (intensive outpatient therapy). A specific...

  19. New grad monitoring

    Recovering_RN replied to coffeemanic's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yep, sorry, I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you are VERY lucky to be offered just one year! The rest of us on this site are doing all those things, the daily check in, multiple (mine is...

  20. Evaluation scaries

    Recovering_RN replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think maybe what you've read about not using the evaluator that is recommended has more to do with the fact that often they will recommend an evaluator who is affiliated with an inpatient treatment...

  21. TPAPN Affinity NONSENSE

    Recovering_RN replied to Kel65's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Let us know how the completion process goes for you. If you are officially done on the exact date 3 years after your contract start date, or if it drags on. And let us know how you knew you were done;...

  22. Where did the TPAPN forms and participant guide go?

    Recovering_RN posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Does anyone know where the main TPAPN page went? The one that had copies of the Participant Guide and the Forms Guide? I've got copies of those documents saved on my iPad, so I don't need them, but...

  23. CA nurses help !!

    Recovering_RN replied to Alllirn05's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The idea to get a drug screen now, a hair test, is that a hair test would show back three months, so it would prove that you had no drugs in your system at the time of the incident. I don't know if...

  24. Nervous!! Counting down the days....

    Recovering_RN replied to Nurse8204's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm sorry I don't know. I haven't spoken to anyone in that situation. However, I've read so many stories of nurses who've had to start all over on their contracts when they move to a new state, so I...

  25. Nervous!! Counting down the days....

    Recovering_RN replied to Nurse8204's topic in Nurses Recovery

    3 years for nurses, 5 for nurse practitioners. It used to be 2 years for nurses, changed to 3 about a year or less before I got