Is this possible?

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We had a "sweet" girl fired today for a positive drug test. She insists she was not smoking it and her friends smoke it around her but she never smokes it. Is that possible? Can you really come back with a positive drug test just from being in the same room as people who are smoking? What if they blew it in her face? I want to believe her story but I don't know anything about this.:confused:

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
Exactly! I used to avoid my ex's friends because they ALL smoked pot - including the kiddie parole officer, the RN in management, and the grade school teacher. If they want to jepardize their careers, fine. I won't do that to mine though.

True, true!! I worked too hard to earn this license and none of those people will support me if I lose it, so, it is better to lose THEM.

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
We had a "sweet" girl fired today for a positive drug test. She insists she was not smoking it and her friends smoke it around her but she never smokes it. Is that possible? Can you really come back with a positive drug test just from being in the same room as people who are smoking? What if they blew it in her face? I want to believe her story but I don't know anything about this.:confused:

Hello - I worked with an LPN in an area LTC facility and she was just like you described. Very sweet, no one wanted to believe she came up positive. Mgmt allowed her to work as a CNA after she came up positive and the night charge nurse walked into a room and found her standing up on a chair, trying to pull morphine out of a PCA pump. Turns out she was dating a male LPN who was bringing home "leftovers" from shifts he worked and gave her the syringe she got caught with.

Very sweet girl, good to her patients, but there was no way she could get out of that one.

Anne, RNC:twocents:

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Snowfreeze, That is very interesting . I have never heard that before. I love it when I learn something new! Thanks.:jester:

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Specializes in Cardiac/ED.
We had a "sweet" girl fired today for a positive drug test. She insists she was not smoking it and her friends smoke it around her but she never smokes it. Is that possible? Can you really come back with a positive drug test just from being in the same room as people who are smoking? What if they blew it in her face? I want to believe her story but I don't know anything about this.:confused:

Was there a reason for testing her? I have not heard of many places using random drug screening on employees unless they have some sort of reason (appearing intoxicated while at work) I know the military does randoms but if I am wrong please let me know as that seems a bit weird to me.

She might want to just cut her losses and hope that they don't report her to the boards.

P2

I'm doing a pre-employment DS for a new job but that is very common now.

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Specializes in LTC.

I was told ( by the DON of our LTC facility) that you can test positive for marijuana up to 3 weeks after " exposure" , meaning , I guess, that you inhaled in the vicinity of someone who lit up. I've never tested that out , though.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

Anything is possible. Even nice people can have addictions or hang with others who are addicts.

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