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https://www.nurserequirementresources.com/   This website has information to help nurses navigate through the Board of Nursing discipline. It has a lot of resources for assistance and words of wisdom. 

‍  mental health discrimination‍ I am so sorry that this happened, it sounds very difficult.  You may find this website on Nurse Suicide Prevention/Resilience helpful:  https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nurse-suicide-prevention/ .If you have concerns that your rights are being or have been violated in the workplace, or that your employer is violating or has violated state or federal workplace safety rules and regulations, you should contact an attorney in your jurisdiction, as we do not provide these services, nor can we investigate complaints. If you need a referral, you can contact the American Association of Nurse Attorneys at http://www.taana.org/. I hope this information is helpful to you and I wish your the very best. Has anyone else had a similar situation with a different outcome that you could share?

Because I asked for help for suicidal thoughts:

Suicide prevention in nursing.  One big problem is that nurses and other healthcare professionals cannot go the seek healthcare when they are feeling depressed and suicidal without risking their license, their job, their identity as a nurse or any other job.

I went though a very dark depression, a one time incident that I have been recovered from for years.  However when I took FMLA to get help from a counselor he reported me to the SBON without telling me.  My license was suspended, I lost my job and now everything that I told the counselor, that should be HIPPA protected, is published on the SBON website for anyone, anyone to see.  So now I can't get a job anywhere due to my background check that includes info that should be HIPA protected.  I can't even get a job at Walmart.  I went back to school and get a different degree.  But I still can't get a job through that either due to my background check.  I am literally going to end up on the streets because I asked for help.  I thought I was doing the right thing to protect myself and others, but I was only punished for it.  (I went to an HR consultant, she said "it will be impossible to get a job unless they don't really do a background check."  This just isn't right for me or anyone else.  

Is there away to get the SBON to take such private information off their website so I can get a job -  not in nursing.

 

emdanuco‍ Thank you for your kind comments.  Please see ANA's Nurse Suicide Prevention/Resilience website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nurse-suicide-prevention/ and the Well-Being Initiative just for nurses at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/the-well-being-initiative/ for more great resources.

I love the title healthy nurse healthy nation. I have been away from bedside since 2014 but I still remember the level of stress I felt taking care of the sick and the dying in Oncology. Now, I am on different level of stress in transplant. Since the pandemic I most worried for my friends and colleague in the frontlines. It is hard to do self care when you are too busy trying to survive day to day. I feel like that our nurses are in the battlefield and a lot of them will have PTSD when the dust finally settle after this pandemic is over when they can actually finally able to take a breath and look inside and feel the real emotions. I think it is important that strength through resiliency training becomes a part of the annual competencies for all the nurses. I don’t think you can ever overprepare in learning ways to cope with stress especially traumatic experiences and a reminder of the importance of self care.