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You are a nurse that just went under consent order or you were suspended or you are returning to work after 6 months or a year and/or you have a narcotics restriction and/or probation and/or your Supervisor has to write the quarterly report and.......You can't find someone to hire you, so What Should You Do, Where should you look?

Your local Primary Health Clinic that serves Underserved Populations/Low Income populations is where you will find work. These places generally don't have narcotics in the building so you don't have to worry about narcs. The pay isn't great, but it's a job, a return to practice.

Every state has these clinics and if you Google "Underserved Health Clinics," or "Low Income Health Clinics" you will find them. There are over 300 in the United States. They are in every state. Sure, try the usual Dialysis, Mental Health Hospital, and County Community Health Clinics that are the usual friendly places, but they don't always hire. If no luck here, look into what I wrote above and that is a nearby Underserved/Low income Health Clinic of which some are private, some are public funded, but this is where you will find the job.

They may have public names like "Smith County Clinic," but what is more common are names like, "Healthy Hands for All" or "Healthcare for Everyone" or even a name like "Mountain Primary Clinic." The names can be deceptive and you would think by looking at the name that it is just another Primary health clinic, but many of these strictly cater too underserved/Low income populations, and this is where you will find a job, and many of the people working here will be friendly to SUD and many will have a background in SUD themselves.

If you are trying to work in a "Rehab Facility," understand that hundreds of nurses in recovery have the same idea, and rehab centers across the country will have a rule in place that you must have at least one, sometimes 2 or 3 years of proven sobriety to work at these places so you can kind of forget about that option. Sure, there are the occasional stories of the nurse that reenters practice at a rehab job, but they are very rare.