Nurses who can't give out narcotics

Wow your right why would you hire someone that can only do half the job.

I feel for these nurses and hope that they do well in their recovery. But I'd not hire them till they had gone through their programs and were off their restrictions.

Wow your right why would you hire someone that can only do half the job.

I feel for these nurses and hope that they do well in their recovery. But I'd not hire them till they had gone through their programs and were off their restrictions.

Most people who have restrictions MUST work in order to show the monitoring program "good faith" that they are still competent at work so that their license can become "free and clear again".

As for in a nursing home-the main issue is their ratios; that is not the person's fault who is trying to get a chance to work again.

I have helped with passing narcs for some other nurses. It can be a pain yes, hopefully they are not working at the same time. Maybe the RCMs or MDS nurses can come help pass some of those narcotics, I know I would if needed. Many of these nurses feel like crap that they have these restrictions and they are actively working to clear their licenses. Be supportive.

I see... thanks I never knew that. Well hoping that all will turn out for all concern.

Ideally those nurses would do some tasks for you that do not involve narcs to even out the workload.....

I wish nurses in recovery all the best. However, I cannot work at See's chocolate candy store. It would be "too tempting" for me to be around all of that chocolate. So why would someone with a drug problem want to be around a job that involves giving out narcotics? Aren't they worried about being tempted once again by narcotics in the future when they are cleared to give narcotics?

maybe being assigned to patients who don't take narcotics can help? not everyone at the nursing home gets narcotics, right? As a student, during my med surg rotation I had many patients who had no narcotics on their daily meds

I wish nurses in recovery all the best. However, I cannot work at See's chocolate candy store. It would be "too tempting" for me to be around all of that chocolate. So why would someone with a drug problem want to be around a job that involves giving out narcotics? Aren't they worried about being tempted once again by narcotics in the future when they are cleared to give narcotics?

Yeah....your post makes a "little" sense. However just appreciate that the company you work for is so accepting and forgiving.....WWJD?

Almost all addictions are to things that are everywhere, commonly available. Alcoholics, over eaters, former smokers, attend parties, functions, celebrations where alcohol, smoking, and a lot of food, is readily available.

Computer are everywhere for those of us addicted to Allnurses.

Really hard for nurses to find jobs where no narcotics are used.

:roflmao:ask the MDS nurses to help! Really? Mine are so busy they can't even get their own work done. It's a miracle if they help feed a resident when we're short. Plenty of LTC residents don't take narcs, but we have an EMR so configuring the teams for the days those specific nurses are on duty would be an issue. Perhaps the easiest thing would be for them to do the treatments for the nurses who have to do the narcs for them.

Maybe y'all should head over to the recovery forum to see how difficult it is for nurses with restrictions to find a job ANYWHERE. They take whatever they can get. They don't want to burden anyone, they're just trying to live one day at a time and get out from under the stigma they live with. How would you like it if everyone knew your personal problems? We're nurses, try to have a little compassion. The supervisor or whoever hired them should have worked out an arrangement to even the workload. Blame them.