the way I vew things or the way healthcare has become??

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I have been a nurse for 10 years now...I don't know if its bc I am getting older or just the way healthcare has become. I am actually scared to get a job doing something I love. I have always knew I wanted to be a nurse I have achieved my dream but now I am scared to death to work. People want to look for any reason turn a nurse into the board. I had a bad experience at a place I was just hired and fired from in three weeks. I took a pre employment drug screen, then bc of a discrepancy in a pill count for a norco 5 which I had wasted and even had the crushed pill in the cup with applesauce to show the other nurse I had to take another drug screen, they in turn told me this one was positive for THC. I immediately went to my physicians office and paid to have a drug screen myself and of course it was negative bc I don't smoke marijuana, also it was negative for the norco, I was still terminated. Of course a multitude of reasons were made up but I am really thankful now bc as I read these posts on here I see that people are being accused of doing things wrong when the truth of it is that nurses are overworked and under paid. I was thinking how is it that one RN or one LPN is responsible for every little thing that happens with 27-30 patients? We are human we are going to make mistakes no matter how hard we try not to. That is not why I became a nurse, I became a nurse to help people not to be scared to death to make a wrong move or a wrong statement. Healthcare is a business any more not a calling.... It has become how many patients can one person take on for the least amount of money. I am saddened by this. Nursing was a respected profession. Now we have to constantly look over our shoulder or wonder does so and so like me etc... I know I am just rambling but I don't like being scared to do something I love... Does anyone think I am being just paranoid?? Thanks for listening to me rant and rave I don't really have anyone to talk to about this..

Thanks guys I knew I didn't have anything to worry about

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That is why I went straight to my doctor I don't do drugs anyone that knows me knows that

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.

So, if a nurse is terminated for cause (positive drug screen) but the cause was in error and was confirmed in error, why isn't that a wrongful termination? Isn't there legal recourse for that?

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They also said I took a blood sugar late. It was my second day on the hall I didn't even have time to learn the patients well. I didn't feel that it was fair, but the more I see on the LTC posts the better I feel that it was in my best interest and God was looking over me. Time to move on...

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I have heard nothing else from it so no news is good news. I was so upset because they did that to me but I have now decided that God was looking out for me according to some of the horror stories on LTC

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