Did Satan vomit on my doorstep??? Since I got canned last month (thank you for your kind support on my behalf for sticking up for patient safety and unfair labor law violations...see "I got Canned!) I have attempted to join an new registry. This has been going on for over a week. After spending 4.5 hours taking wriiten exams and compliance evaluations which could not EQUAL sitting for my boards, I am providing blood, urine, happy factor, access to my personal life and am now informed by an MD that my urine came back positive for benzodiazapine. Cricky balls! If everything I've been thru over the past few weeks doesn't merit a little valium, I don't know what would! I do have a scrip for ativan and did succomb to it's evils a few fort nights ago, provided a copy of the RX to the agency, but the MD is not satisfied. He states that the by product that came back positive was from a sedative like ambien, valium, traxene, etc. NOW, I have an old scrip for ambien on file with my MD but I have not taken any. What would you do ?
I take adderall effexor and wellbutrin and ambian, have current Rx for all of them. My former superv thought of drug testing me because of tremor in my hands and a drug error I made. She lied to me and said the company was doing random test, Yea I did get into her email and found out the truth that it was due to susp. My most private life was reveiled, I provided a copy of all scripts and why I took them. In return I never was allowed to receive any written statement of name of the lab, the specifics of my test result, or any type of confirmation this would not affect my career, except for her and the companys word. Yea after catching her in a lie Im really going to feel good about my privacy and my career. Who must be using drugs because she decided to have an affair with one of the sargents at the jail!!!! :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire
One last note some doctors- the ones that decide the positive or negative dont like it when you even for get to tell them you take tylenol- even when they dont test for it and will fail you for that reason alone.
Rj:rolleyes:
Hmmmm.... If they dont test for it and you forgot to tell them then.....
Now I"m a a chronic pain patient (jumped out of to many perfectly good airplanes while working for Uncle Sam) I've peed in the bottle at least 6 times and each time I had all my eggs in a basket and didn't have any trouble at all.
Thank God for the waiver. I wouldn't be injected with that monkey pus for a million dollars.
Yikes! Monkey pus?
My school did drug test us, it was random, in 3rd semester, and we had to pay for it ourselves. As for the immunizations, we could file a waiver for Hep B, do titers for the childhood stuff, but we couldn't work in Peds if we weren't immnue to varicella and refused a varivax. So I hope it works out for you, but I'd take the "monkey pus" rather than be kicked out 3/4 of the way in. Didn't they cover vaccines in Micro?? I mean, you know it's not really monkey pus, right???
Specializes in PICU, Nurse Educator, Clinical Research.
Airborne: All the way, everday!
I'm marrying an Airborne soldier, so i have to say how awesome you both are! Only way i'm going out of a plane that isn't parked on a tarmac is if i'm pushed! two things concern me about this thread: first, the idea that an employer can discriminate againt me for taking my *legal* prescriptions when i need them, if I'm not taking anything that would interfere with my ability to work *when* i'm going to be working. As an example- I have chronic daily migraines. I take lamictal daily as preventative therapy, but sometimes i have an acute migraine and need to take demerol. I don't take it when i'm going to be working, but if I have a severe enough migraine, I'm calling out sick anyway. I took a demerol after work last night for a monster migraine. i don't work again until thursday. Were i tested thursday, I would test positive for narcotics. I took the pill monday night. How on EARTH can that be unsafe for me thursday at work?? And as far as I know, urine testing isn't able to differentiate between me taking the med monday night and thursday morning. Also, the overall tone of many posts (and others i've seen on allnurses) is that people feel compelled to take prescribed medications sparingly, only when the pain/insomnia/etc. is unbearable, even when they're not working. Why is that? We don't commend our patients for *not* taking their pain meds...shoot, i always make it a point to encourage them to ask for their PRNs if they're in pain- better to knock out the pain before it gets out of control and *can't* be knocked out. Why am I any different? I can provide much safer care if i've gotten decent sleep and am rested and in as little pain as possible. No, i'm not advocating taking medications unnecessarily. But i think it's really hard to provide safe nursing care if we're fatigued or in pain, just as much as if we're impaired by medications.
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I take adderall effexor and wellbutrin and ambian, have current Rx for all of them. My former superv thought of drug testing me because of tremor in my hands and a drug error I made. She lied to me and said the company was doing random test, Yea I did get into her email and found out the truth that it was due to susp. My most private life was reveiled, I provided a copy of all scripts and why I took them. In return I never was allowed to receive any written statement of name of the lab, the specifics of my test result, or any type of confirmation this would not affect my career, except for her and the companys word. Yea after catching her in a lie Im really going to feel good about my privacy and my career. Who must be using drugs because she decided to have an affair with one of the sargents at the jail!!!! :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire