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Lilly

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Date Posted: Thu, Aug 02 2012, 5:35:51
In reply to: aa 's message, "Re: I told BON "No way" and kept my sanity" on Tue, Jul 31 2012, 18:42:16

Deanna,
I read both of your posts...and as my message subject spells it out...wow. What a story. I can truly appreciate your strength and willingness to tell the board to kiss your ass. I LOVE this story. I'm glad you were able to stay strong and not bend to the harassment, threats and abuse. It's awesome to see someone move on and LIVE despite their best efforts to conquer and destroy. If you've been on this site long enough, you've seen plenty of stories of doom and destruction. The HUGE difference with your story though is you really didn't do anything wrong and your weren't criminally charged. For those of us that did, it's not about entering into a program because we are "stronger" than you, it's not a choice at all. Here were my choices at the beginning. Keep in mind I had a 9 month old baby, a 5 and 8 year old and a non working husband recovering from surgery. Now, supposedly I had a dirty urine.....(found out 4 years later it wasn't, but that's neither here nor there these days.....) So...here are the options put in front of me by the state board. I can "choose" to 1.) Confess all my sins and enter in to the program and be protected from all prosecution and loss of licensure or 2.) I WILL be reported to law enforcement (little did I know I already had been), I WILL be prosecuted with drug theft which carries 1 year in prison for every count and I WILL lose my nursing license due to felony charges......And unfortunately, since most criminal lawyers have NO understanding of the laws of the Board, they only focus on the criminal aspect and those charges are very real, they will tell ya..."go for the deal"....and it's sealed. I had been a nurse for 18 years, had graduated at 21 years old, had never been in legal trouble and was as naive as they come. In my case, it was NOT a choice. Not at all. And it was a 6 year gang rape by the state board and continues to be so. It will follow me for my entire life. Because even though I "took the deal", I didn't do it to "their satisfaction" after 3 years and was STILL criminally prosecuted. And like you, the paperwork, investigation and documentation was as if it belonged to another nurses case. But none of that matters, because in the beginning I sold my soul to the devil in what I thought was a deal to protect my family and my freedom only to have the devil (state board) bite my ass many years later, as they usually do. I would be thrilled to leave nursing, but ironically, I now carry a permanent record...and nursing is the only place I can get a job...isn't that almost funny. Because it has to do with the licensure issue, there are a few employers that still have a soft heart that will hire me. However, I live in misery every night that I go to work because my next mistake will land me in prison. Not that I am stealing, using or intentionally doing anything wrong. But, I do not want to be there and I live in constant fear that it's going to take one person pissed off at me that knows my situation and the set up is a done deal, or I make one innocent mistake that is turned in to something that only a heinous criminal nurse would do. What kind of life is this. If you can point me in the direction of a company that will hire someone with a felony theft record, by all means, fill me in...and by the way..I am the soul breadwinner of a family of 5, 2 of them college kids, so the income is a pretty significant issue. Bottom line, some of us are stuck. We aren't "stronger" than anyone, we are stuck without choices. So again, I applaud you. I think it's great and I would have LOVED to been the one to answer your door and tell the board dog to FUCK OFF for you!!! I'm glad you could move on and finish out a successful career elsewhere. I can only hope the same for all of us here that would be thrilled to finish out our "golden years" of employment in anything but nursing.

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Re: WOW	SyckRN ("Fuck off" does feel good)	Sun, Dec 16 2012, 14:06:48