Are there confirmatory tests or not? What happens after?

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Reading from other board orders and experiences, it's hard to tell what happens when you test positive on a Urine ETG/ETS?  Are there confirmatory tests such as making you do a Peth blood test or hair etg test?  Or do you get sent straight to inpatient rehab/intensive outpatient again based on the positive Urine ETG/ETS?  

What are the steps they make you do when you test positive on the test (whether or not confirmed?).  Do they call you right away and ask you to stop practicing and meet in person to see if you confess?

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Specializes in Critical Care.

An automatic confirmation test is done at the lab when the screen comes up positive. If the urine is reported as positive it's positive and confirmed; no additional testing is needed. In my state, they'll refrain you from practice and send you to an evaluator. That person would help determine the next course of action but likely you would be looking at going back to treatment.

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Specializes in Hospice, Case Management, Public Health.

In CA, they do split samples and will test the second one if the first was positive. There is a physician that oversees all of this and he is notified .Then he contacts the nurse and they discuss what the next steps will bd. Usually a peth and/or hair test

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That's rough!   Anecdotally, I've heard people failing hire a Urine ETG/ETS and then getting sent to a 4 day evaluation an approved center, which costs $4000 or around there!  And everyone in this business is about CYA rather than what's best for the person, so inpatient rehab is always recommended.

Even worse, your 5 year time get reset also.

I'm not sure what happens if you have a positive urine etg/ets but then a negative Peth/hair.  

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Specializes in Hospice, Case Management, Public Health.

That is crazy and punitive as hell. That doesn't help anyone.

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