Drug Testing for Newly Graduated RN

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I just graduated in May 2014 from nursing school and I am starting to apply for RN positions in Louisiana. After graduation I took a much deserved month off from school and studying for NCLEX to enjoy myself before i start the real world. I smoked marijuana countless times throughout the month and I know it is still in my system. My question is when I apply for a job and take a drug test, if i fail the drug screen will i lose my license even though i have never worked as a licensed RN? Please do not judge, I know it wasn't the smartest thing to do, thank you.

Specializes in ICU/PACU.

Don't test until you are clean!! You can buy drug tests at CVS, Walgreens, etc..

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Specializes in L&D, Women's Health.

If you last used in June, it should be long out of our system. We used to drug screen pregnant ladies all the time and even the heaviest user tested negative actually after 3 wks (urine). Maybe consider moving to Colorado??

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Did or can you get a script for it?

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Specializes in Maternity.
Did or can you get a script for it?

Just because it's legal in a state does not mean it's ok with the BON.

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I advise the person to "exercise and drink lots of water" and it's a TOS violation? You sure you're a nurse traumarus? Or are you just mad because I followed that up with an opinionated statement you might not have agreed with?

Kinda hoping this was sarcasm gone wrong. If serious, it's ridiculously nasty and immature, and quite undeserved.

But.....since you asked what you did wrong.....here ya go:

Terms of Service for Nurses | Nursing Students

You cannot give advice on how to skew pre-employment drug screenings, how to get around them at all, period.

Can't really believe I'm having to SAY this to someone who is also supposed to be an RN (that is, if I can even be SURE he/she is.....).

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Specializes in L&D, Women's Health.
Just because it's legal in a state does not mean it's ok with the BON.

Kinda got me wondering if it was. Anyone from there reading wish to contribute?

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Specializes in hospice.

It's still federally illegal as well. Just because the current "hip" administration chooses not to enforce those laws doesn't mean the next one will make the same choice.

The lack of maturity with these posts always grates on my nerves. You know it's not allowed and could completely torpedo your career, yet you WANNA so you go ahead, then want to go into panic mode about your job and the BON. There was never any mystery here, it was all clearly spelled out. Grow up and stop making choices that risk the career you say you want, or if you make those choices, suck it up and take the consequences because you knew exactly what you were doing.

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The easy solution to this situation is to refrain from applying for employment until you are certain that you have no chance of coming up positive and then staying that way. Why jeopardize yourself now and risk jeopardizing your entire future? You can hang out for awhile longer.

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
Kinda got me wondering if it was. Anyone from there reading wish to contribute?

Where? Louisiana? Dh and I live here and it's not legal here.

Anne, RNC

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It's still federally illegal as well. Just because the current "hip" administration chooses not to enforce those laws doesn't mean the next one will make the same choice.

The lack of maturity with these posts always grates on my nerves. You know it's not allowed and could completely torpedo your career, yet you WANNA so you go ahead, then want to go into panic mode about your job and the BON. There was never any mystery here, it was all clearly spelled out. Grow up and stop making choices that risk the career you say you want, or if you make those choices, suck it up and take the consequences because you knew exactly what you were doing.

LOL Hey now, don't forget he asked that we "please don't judge", as he knows it was "not the smartest thing to do", Good God, the people who get through nursing school these days! And then we have the ones who support them...

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Specializes in hospice.

Yes he did. And I politely refused. :p

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There are some areas of nursing that do not test for drugs.(i do not do them either).

I have never,ever been tested in my 10 yrs of nursing.

I have worked private duty,nursing homes,even psych.

That might be this state though.

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