While reading your post I could not help but think of the nurse who mentored me during my beginning days as a case manager. Multiple times every day she would disappear for at least twenty minutes and then returns stating she had to take her cigarette breaks yet she never smelled of smoke. At the end of the shift one day I looked all over for my mentor and couldn’t find her. I sent her a text message letting her know I was leaving for the day. As I walked to my car I saw my mentor sitting in her car. As I approached I could see that she had an empty vodka bottle in her lap and that she was unresponsive. I tried to wake her and when she didn’t respond I called for help. Ultimately she confessed to the fact that she had been drinking during
