Denied employment at agency due to ordered prescriptions

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SionainnRN

914 Posts

Specializes in Emergency Room, Trauma ICU.
People are so narrow-minded when it comes to certain topics... I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. I have an Rx for Xanax 0.5 which I usually only take for sleep. But this one day i on my shift, my anxiety was at an all time high, was in the midst of a panic attack, which i usually just try to power through. But this day i decided to take my xanax. And it was incredible what happened. The veil was lifted, i was back to normal and not just functioning, but thriving. I could think again, and saw things clearly. It was truly amazing. It wasn't until i removed the anxiety that i was able to see just how debilitating it was on my judgment, social skills, and every aspect of the job. ANXIETY IMPAIRS JUDGEMENT. That is a proven fact. Research is plentiful. Go find me the research behind the "belief" that 0.5 xanax would impair judgement on a person who is used to the dose, and takes it for the management of anxiety. Yes if i popped 4 of them, then there would b a problem. People who don't know what anxiety is like and have never taken a low dose of xanax therapeutically are ignorant on the subject, and really can't say that it would impair ones judgement. So when i read the opinions of the auto-naysayers who are throwing out judgments bc of their "value" that drugs are bad, i respectfully ignore them![/quote']

So you're saying your anxiety is so bad it impairs your judgement? And we should be ok with you working like that? If you are impaired you are a danger to your patients. If your anxiety and panic attacks are so debilitating that you say you're impaired at work, maybe you need to go into a different field of nursing. One where people's lives are in your hands.

TLSpaz, ASN, RN

171 Posts

Specializes in Emergency Room.

RNwithHonors

6 Posts

Hello all. Its been a few years since Ive posted on this topic, but I felt looking back I owed a status update to all those who supported me.

There are a few things I want to cover, but,

First let me say that Ive remained at the same Hospital in which I successfully started at in June of 2012.

Not only that: but I've thrived, just as I did in RN school

(for those of you who keep telling me that it doesnt matter how exceptionally well I did in RN school/clinical: I respectfully disagree because statistically history has a way of repeating itself)

I can tell anybody with full confidence, who has judged me with blunt rude comments or passive aggressiveness--That I have NEVER been written up as a working RN, never have caused harm to one patient, and last but not least, I not only moved up the ranks of becoming Charge Nurse---But now Im a newly promoted Nurse Manager as a member of my Hospitals Administration, overseeing 4 different units in the hospital (approximately 150 Nursing Employees).

I brag for the purpose of spiting every last RN here who judged someone like me...

Furthurmore as I am one of those responsible for hiring and firing at my Facility, and I truly hope that any rude poster comes my way begging for a job one day... I promise to give you what you deserve, give you what you have coming--which would be NOT simply evaluating your prospective talent or liability factors as if I were an RN assessing a patient in a "focal manner". Instead, I woukd take the time and effort to give you a fair chance at working for at the Hospital that so wonderfully gave me the chance I deserved.

Never did I initially believe I would be a member in Administration consulting with Risk Management and the CEO on a fairly regular basis, regarding the development and accoubtability of the Nursing Department, but I never gave up or saw myself as "less than"(just like that quack MRO from the "Puritan Facility"

did).

Also since attaining a secure job, my anxiety decreased significantly, and now Im completely off the benzos (for over a year now). Sure if I were to take them now, which is when I no longer "need" them it would probably make me drowsy--but I never took them because I wanted to get anything more than healthy productivity.

(So in other words im compliant with the prns, because as I have no need--I never take!!)

I just needed to vent that out to all the narrowminded "improvisationally confident" judemental RNs who ever commented coldly about me, and hey, maybe you work for me--and you will never know it, because I wont treat you with the disdain you showered me with. (Its a small world ;)

Now then, to every good Nurse who also believed in me: thank you for giving me the support I needed to help me realize my dreams to come true!!!!!

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nursel56

7,078 Posts

Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

Thanks for the update, RNwithHonors. Nothing speaks so loudly as results in real life. Congrats on your promotions, and wishing you continued success. :up:

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN

1 Article; 20,908 Posts

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Congratulations....((HUGS))

Graduatenurse14

630 Posts

That's great!! Congrats!!! I hope that all of the ill-informed and rude posters see how far you've come!!

Tenebrae, BSN, RN

1,951 Posts

Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

Outstanding. Glad that things have progressed so well for you. And well done in getting off the benzos. Not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination

JenERally

68 Posts

I'm sorry you feel that way but I stand by what I said last year. Just because you are prescribed a medication doesn't mean you can work as a nurse on it. If I get prescribed Vicodin and drive on it and get pulled over, guess what? I'll probably get a DUI. Doesn't matter that I have a prescription. Same with work. There are many jobs, some in nursing, that you can do with a narc prescription but I don't think hospital nursing is one of them.

You'll get a DUI if you fail the field sobriety tests that the officer administers, not for simply having Vicodin in your system.

Your desire revenge is somewhat frightening.

klone, MSN, RN

14,790 Posts

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
Your desire revenge is somewhat frightening.

I thought that as well.

morte, LPN, LVN

7,015 Posts

Your desire revenge is somewhat frightening.
to which post do you refer?

klone, MSN, RN

14,790 Posts

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
to which post do you refer?

Post #74, specifically this, I imagine (I know I read it and thought "Yikes")

Furthurmore as I am one of those responsible for hiring and firing at my Facility, and I truly hope that any rude poster comes my way begging for a job one day... I promise to give you what you deserve, give you what you have coming
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