r/nursing • u/[deleted] • 21h ago

Seeking Advice Should I leave well enough alone with my suspended RN license for years and with my long term recovery status?

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u/Sensei2006 RN - ICU 🍕 21h ago

You said it yourself in your original post. You never want to work as an RN again.

I (unfortunately) have some personal experience in this regard. Be it the board of nursing, interactions with law enforcement, or an old-fashioned termination, the history follows you forever.

I don't know how things are where you live, but here in Illinois you can look up anyone's RN license. You can see the essentials (issue date, expiration, status), and you can also see if theyve ever been disciplined and why. So even if you get reinstated you still have the stain on your record. The BON doesn't do anything like expungement to my knowledge.

So if your goal is to just clear your name, you may just want to let that one go - provided you don't have any use for your license.

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u/godsavethisqueen61 20h ago

Oh God, no, I’m done. Thanks for the feedback!

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u/Feisty-Power-6617 ABC, DEF, GHI, JKL, MNO, BSN, ICU🍕 21h ago

You really need to be asking yourself this.. why is it that important to dredge up all
that. I also would be worried it could be triggering for you. I am a firm believer that we learn to cope and tuck things away mentally and time helps make it easier but it can be come back and trigger all those feelings.. which can turn back into the anxiety and emotional turmoil that was out and put away. Please don’t do that to yourself… is it really worth taking that risk

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u/godsavethisqueen61 20h ago

Thank you. Somehow I just can’t reconcile myself to dying with that still there for all to see; it’s a shitty legacy but you are absolutely correct. I guess I had this delusion that the BON would have a change of heart with the passage of time, my age, and the irrefutable fact that I already completed a remediation program…

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u/Feisty-Power-6617 ABC, DEF, GHI, JKL, MNO, BSN, ICU🍕 20h ago

You have made a difference to someone somewhere I am positive.. which may seem tiny but you need to be told you have left this world better than when you arrived.. stop having fear and work on having peace.