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Table of Contents From Unbecoming A Nurse To Overcoming Addiction
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Introduction

Someone Must Have Prayed for Me

From Twisted Path To The Triumph Of Recovery

Twenty-Two Years Beyond My Wildest Dreams

Burned All My Bridges To Recover

I Love Who I Have Become

I Kept Coming Back

Life and Career Worth Salvaging

Gratitude For Another Chance

Greyhound Therapy

Clean And Sober Nearly A Quarter Century

Graced By The Gift of Sobriety

My Mom Was "My Rock"

They Were Right In Treatment

I See Things Differently Now

"Go Straight! Go Straight!"

I Thought I Just Liked Drugs

The Program That Saved My Life

From Despair To Accomplishment

Seemed Like A Good Idea At the Time

Once Hopeless, Now I Am Full Of Hope

Seduced Into A False Sense Of Security

A Miracle Happened In My Life

Prayed For The Willingness To Be Willing

Through Doing It My Way

Accepting Where I Am In Life

My Drug Of Choice Was Propofol

I Wanted The Whole Package Deal Back

Yellow Rose of Texas Sober Thirty-Five Years

A Dimension Very Few Ever Achieve


Table of Contents Unbecoming A Nurse
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Foreword by Sarah Ruth Gomes

Preface

Introduction

I. Becoming A Nurse

II. Risk Factors

III. Risk Assessment

IV. Optimal Safeguards

V. Sentinel Events

VI. Reprieve From Professional Practice

VII. Alternative To Discipline Programs

VIII. Return To Practice

IX. Warning Signs of Relapse

X. Preemptive Strategies

Excerpts are copyright © 2008-2013 by Paula Davies Scimeca, RN, MS