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| Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Texas
Posts: 44
| Re: returning to the workforce My friends tell me that the main thing is to be totally honest with them, not make your story sound overly dramatic....I think you will be surprised. You are not a "bad" nurse or person and hospitals know that or should. |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 2
| Re: returning to the workforce Go out and start applying at different places. Nursing homes are always hireing. Be honest, don't get discouraged. I am in the same situation and thats what I did. Eventually I found a NH that was willing to work with me. I'm a charge nurse and the other nurse who works w/me passes my narcs, counts the cart ect. I have 18 months of sobriety. If I can do it you can too! Just keep trying-Good luck and god bless |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: ohio
Posts: 1
| Re: returning to the workforce does anyone out there have any information on refresher courses for r.n's in toledo ohio or ohio itself. i have been clean 4 yrs and i need to get back to nursing but i have to have a refresher course before i can return to nursing |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1
| Recovering Nurse I am considering re-instating a surrendered R.N. license from 1998 due to chemical dependency. I am also in Houston, Texas. It still, after all these years sounds very discouraging regarding obtaining employment. I really thought that perhaps the nursing field had become more educated and accepting of recovering nurses. Now, I wonder if it will even be worth all of the effort going through the Nursing Board program and trying to find employment without being rejected time and again. I don't know why our fellow nurses are not more supportive. Has anyone in recovery found a job in Houston?????? |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: California
Posts: 236
| Looking for work When your on probation, in diversion or peer assistance etc - you are usually first given permission to work in an area of non-patient care. I'm in California and I got the first job I applied for. I used to work L&D since I knew that would be out of the question I didn't even look there. Here are some suggestions - look for jobs in case management, Admitting, nursing homes, rehab facilities. Check with HMO's and other insurance companies for positions like Tele-nurse etc... I currently work as the admit nurse in a psych hospital. It would not have been my first choice for a job but I now find it's the best job I've ever had. When you apply you don't have to tell them right away that you are in diversion unless you have a felony on your record. Here in California it's recomended that you not tell about diversion until you have a job offer in writing. If you choose to tell as I did then I suggest something like what I did. I went to the hospital and asked for an appointment with the DON - not human resources. I had a sit down with her. I explained that I was an alcoholic/addict in recovery/diversion. That I had been sober 9 months and that I was interested in working in psych. I also told her I had no psych experience but was willing to take any nursing position and work up from there. two weeks later I was working there and even had my own office. I don't work on the floor. I just see new patients get them admitted to the hospital. I don't make as much money as I used to but I make enough to get by and that's all that matters right now. |
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