Ca RN positive preemployment drug test need help

Healer555 · Apr 2

The quantity of a substance in a bodily fluid is probably too low to reach the level that would count as positive. If it's opiates maybe poppy seeds? A hair test or nail test would go back at least 3 months. The saliva and urine tests wouldn't cover the same time period as your initial test. I'd do a hair and nail test to.prove your innocence. They may or may not report you.

Athenaray · Apr 2

1. Take a hair and nail test NOW. Do NOT let time go by. Go online, Google 'order my own hair and fingernail test" and have the results of those tests sent directly to your lawyer. It's great that you had a future negative urine test, but that doesn't matter very much. What does matter? A hair and nail test that looks back for months and leaves no doubt. Also a Peth Blood draw for alcohol.

2. It's 50/50 on whether they report you. For a failed pre employment drug test, IF.......IF you are reported and the BON investigates, there is zero chance your license is suspended. ZERO, but getting into trouble? Oh yea, very possible.

3. How long until you find out if you have been reported and are under investigation by the BON before you receive a letter? Anywhere from one month to 1 year. Yep, roughly that long, and more likely closer to 3 months or more.

4. Peace of mind for you and how to achieve it in case you are reported and you don't want the worry for up to 1 year wondering what if? Step 1. Get Attorney. Step 2. Get hair and nail drug test and Peth Alcohol blood test (give results to lawyer.) Step 3. Get you own SUD eval now. Have results sent directly to lawyer and have him hold them tight. Get you SUD eval at any facility that does SUD evals and do NOT worry about whether it's "Board Approved." That means NOTHING at this point. What matters is....you get an SUD eval that shows no SUD disorder and tthose results are in the hands of your attorney.

Case closed if you do the 3 steps above. Do the 3 steps above and you will not end up on consent order or in monitoring and likely be given a verbal warning or written warning that is no big deal and not made public. You can rest with peace of mind knowing that over the next months or year, you are good to go even if reported. Your attorney has too much evidence in hand with the SUD eval showing no issue, negative PETH test and negative hair and nail tests and the BON does NOT have enough evidence against you. They can't play the "at work Pixis or charting error game" because you didn't work there yet. The BON will back down IF.....IF....you take the 3 steps above without any shortcuts.

There are dumb humans in the world and dumb humans are notorious for not being able to make decisions. They love "to wait" and dumb humans love to share their thoughts with phrases such as, "I would wait until.......".

Trust me on this no matter what you hear from another nurse or if you run into a dumb human. Do NOT wait. Period. What you will likely here from the dumb dumb out there is......"You can get the drug tests but I would WAIT to do the SUD eval until I find out that I was reported." I'm warning you, if you do that, welcome to a consent order and monitoring because if you "Wait" on the SUD eval, for example, 4 months goes by and then you do it, that means little because the BON can say, "4 months went by and you stopped doing drugs because you knew you would have an eval." It's CRITICAL to get the SUD eval ASAP.

1. Lawyer, 2. Peth Test, Hair, Nail Test. 3. SUD eval. Do those 3 in the next month and you just won your case or in one sense, there will be no case. Deviate or "wait" and you will become a regular member of this forum over the next 3 years and maybe up to 5.

For the nurses that beat the BON and don't go under consent order are always the same story on here for over a decade. They get their own drug tests and hair is one of them, lawyer up early, and get an SUD eval and the results go to their lawyer. The lawyer is now armed and the BON knows it, and they back down in these situations. Skip the SUD eval, even if you have an attorney and negative drug tests, but if you skip the SUD eval and you WAIT until 4 or 5 or 6 months goes by and you let the BON pick where you get that eval, as the eval place is in the pockets of the BON, then welcome to a consent order and monitoring for anywhere from 3 and up to 5 years.

Hope this helps. Now, all of the above answers for you were given under the assumption that you don't do drugs and that your Peth, Hair,Nail, and SUD evals all come back negative. Is all of the above expensive? Yep. What if you aren't reported? So, it was expensive and I didn't even get reported. Yep, great. Having the peace of mind knowing you are fine over the next year is worth that expense and if you didn't do the above stuff and get reported and have to go under consent order and monitoring for possibly up to 5 years, that is FAR more expensive than what you will have paid for the peace of mind. Of you are investigated/reported, the BON will eventually have you likely do their very own Board Approved SUD at one of their locations. Even that is doubtful because of how armed your lawyer is with a bunch of proof, bit no big deal if you have to get a BON approved SUD eval IF they report you. The crooked evaluators can't be as crooked in this situation because when you go into see them, you hand them your attorneys info, your negative drug tests and your negative SUD eval that you got months earlier and when this happens, it's ALARMING how the Board Approved SUD evaluators aren't so corrupt anymore and they aren't so quick to find you as having an SUD because they know they are under the microscope legally at that point. But, if you walk into a Board Approved SUD eval place and you don't have a lawyer or any hair/nail tests close to the event proving innocence and no previous SUD eval from anywhere, They Got You, period. They will overwhelmingly likely find something or "make up" something.

I think you get the picture by now of how important it is to get your own SUD eval, hair test, nail test, Peth Test ASAP and give yo your lawyer. It kiterally.....literally is the difference maker in whether you end up on consent order/probation/Monitoring versus walking away with a written or verbal warning.