I m in big trouble! I think I failed my drug screen

NIGHTWOLF87 · Apr 3, 2009

i feel for your family mostly. you may be the one in immediate trouble, but what about your wife and kids (if you have any)? and how do you explain to your son/daughter down the line when the ask you, "why did you stop being a nurse, daddy?" hopefully you learned your lesson, get some rehab if necessary, and straighten out your life. those who think that smoking pot doesn't hurt anyone should ask your wife if that is true.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 3, 2009

Do you know what would make this thread better? Is if we sat back and smoked pot while we read the posts that were completely off the topic about people downloading illegal music, Mediao and the babysitter that let people know she was a "home wrecker".

Don't you mean to just sit in a room while others smoked and we just take deep breaths :yawn:

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 3, 2009

i feel for your family mostly. you may be the one in immediate trouble, but what about your wife and kids (if you have any)? and how do you explain to your son/daughter down the line when the ask you, "why did you stop being a nurse, daddy?" hopefully you learned your lesson, get some rehab if necessary, and straighten out your life. those who think that smoking pot doesn't hurt anyone should ask your wife if that is true.

do only men smoke pot?? my husband doesn't get high, although i have told him he needs to before :stone but if on occasion he did, it would not bother me one bit and he wouldn't do it around our children.

whodunit · Apr 3, 2009

Oh well, you didn't get caught this time. Now, somewhere out there, we have a nurse who does illegal drugs being in charge of narcotics and the monitoring and assessment of patients. I don't care if everyone thinks I'm an old square not fitting into a round world. Illegal drugs are illegal drugs, and because they are, the people who use them are involved in criminal activity and are in the company of the criminal drug elements of our society--and you have access to narcotics. If pot were legal, it would be a whole 'nother issue. Then it would just be a matter of whether or not you were high at work.
I think you should stop: stop being a nurse, or stop using pot.

I think that anyone who thinks most nurses don't use something is living with their head in the sand.To me it doesn't matter if its prescribed meds like Xanex, Ativan, Effexor or ETOH or pot.Most every nurse I know is on something and just my 2 cents worth, I'd rather have a nurse buzzing on pot taking care of me and mine verses one who is shooting up in the bathrm or so high their speech is slurred {on prescribed meds don't cha know?} Yep,been in quite a few rms with 2nd hand smoke, think pot should be legalized and agree with the other posters on why it is not.But, never will believe that you should worry about a nurse "being in charge of narcotics" . :smokin:

whodunit · Apr 3, 2009

i know a number of people who smoke pot on a regular basis -- a physician friend swears it's kept him from completely losing his sight to his advanced glaucoma. a guy i've worked with says it's the only thing that helps his gut relax and stops the horrific cramping when he's going through an exacerbation of his ulcerative colitis. sister-in-law swears it helps with her killer menstrual cramps (endometriosis and fibroids) and another friend smokes for the nausea associated with chemotherapy. in fact, when i worked heme/onc in the late 70s/early 80s, we used to suggest to our patients that thc would help with their nausea. actually, we'd say "i can't suggest this to you because it's illegal, but a number of our patients have found that smoking marijuana helps with their nausea and stimulates their appetites, allowing them to eat and preventing massive weight loss. of course we cannot obtain it for you, but if your family member would go down to the corner of main and state streets . . . " unit policy was that if we came upon a patient smoking pot in the room, we'd just close the door and come back later.
i agree: it should be legal and taxed up the whazoo!

i agree and also find it interesting that there is a government web site that gives info on all the different medications that can cause a false positive test for pot, cocaine etc.

Belfegor · Apr 3, 2009

belfegor..the bottom line is you can be tracked by a ip address.. the same thing the music industry can sue you for illegaly downloading there music. when you are using the internet, it is a open source for anyone to see and view.
regardless of what you may believe, it can happen. its all over the internet, people have been fired what websites they have been registered with. just the facts and i would hate to see this person lose there job over something like this.

dear adrena,

i think you have me confused with another poster....i was just saying that one can get a positive screening test for inhaling

second hand smoke from pot.

personally, i don't smoke....tried it once and hate the feeling of loosing control. control freak i am , control freak i remain.

that being said, occasional users of pot are by no mean "wasting their life" or "twisted" (i am referring to another post here)

this might be an april fool, but it sure shows how quick most people are to judge!!!

come'on people! get a life and open your minds!

fengshuiheaven · Apr 3, 2009

Failing a drug test will not get turned into the state boards. You just won't be able to work there. MOST places do pre-employment drug screening. Although I don't use pot, I don't think that there is anything wrong with the occasional smoking of it. I'd rather see people doing that than drinking 6 beers and getting in their car and driving home from happy hour, which people deem "ok", because it is "legal"..... But that is a whole other topic. When you're job hunting, stay clean. For the very occasional smoker, it won't stay in your system more than a week. If you're a heavy user, it will stay in your system for a month.

barefootlady, ADN, RN · Apr 3, 2009

I have been a nurse for so long I can remember when taking an aspirin at work was a big deal, now I work with people who are on Ativan, Xanax, Lortab, even Methadone.

Needless to say, I often do not know how to respond when I am told "well, I made it though the shift, but it took a Ativan and Lortab to do it." Yes, I often have to check a lot of things, so I can only wonder what and how they are really acting and reacting to crisis situations.

LovebugLPN · Apr 3, 2009

Y'know I was never aware I could get a positive drug test from being in the same room as someone smoking pot. I have seen this debated all over the internet and it seemed like it was determined you did not inhale enough THC to get a positive unless you "shotgun" it. Are you sure about that? I would hate to have to resort to buying it and smoking it. If I am going to test positive I mine as well get the full experience. :smokin:

fengshuiheaven · Apr 3, 2009

" "well, I made it though the shift, but it took a Ativan and Lortab to do it." "

Wow.... this is REALLY sad. Is this what nursing has come to? Very sad.

FireStarterRN, BSN, RN · Apr 3, 2009

Is it okay to take ativan while working? Wouldn't that impair someone, even if there is a prescription?

Flightline, BSN, RN · Apr 3, 2009

I think that anyone who thinks most nurses don't use something is living with their head in the sand.To me it doesn't matter if its prescribed meds like Xanex, Ativan, Effexor or ETOH or pot.Most every nurse I know is on something and just my 2 cents worth, I'd rather have a nurse buzzing on pot taking care of me and mine verses one who is shooting up in the bathrm or so high their speech is slurred {on prescribed meds don't cha know?} Yep,been in quite a few rms with 2nd hand smoke, think pot should be legalized and agree with the other posters on why it is not.But, never will believe that you should worry about a nurse "being in charge of narcotics" .

I don't care about THC, or benzos or ETOH. None of that matters to me at all. Legalize pot, don't legalize it. Our economy needs a new industry, so people can do and vote however they want. What concerns me is the illegality of it, and the people one has to associate with in order to get it. Because it's illegal, only the criminal element will do it, especially since it's generally non-addictive. A nurse who likes to get high is the tip of an iceberg on an entire personality that doesn't care about breaking the law. And it's worse than littering or speeding. It's more like dumping toxic waste and racing your friend on the freeway. Possession of narcotics is a serious crime. So, what kind of person will take that kind of risk?

No, better yet, what kind of person with a wife and kids to care for would take such a risk. Answer: A criminal. What kind of nurse would do it? A criminal nurse.

If marijuana was legal and sold like ciggarettes, then it would be just like booze. You wouldn't have to have a criminal mind to use it, you wouldn't be putting your family at risk (so long as you used it responsibly). There might even be benefits to it. We don't know; and that's not the world we live in. Not yet. So the only ones doing it as described in the OP are criminals who hang out with criminals and buy from criminals.

IMHO:typing