Nurses who can't give out narcotics

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They have recently hired 2 new nurses who are in some kind of drug rehab program. So now all of the other nurses get to do a lot of extra work. There are a lot of narcotics that are used at this facility. So now in addition to doing one's own heavy nursing medication assignment, the nurses are expected to give out all of the narcotics for these new hires. Why would they even hire nurses who can't give out narcotics in a nursing home?

I hired a restricted RN to work in a dialysis clinic where narcotics are not even in our medication stock. A thought.

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I could understand giving them a chance..but hire 2 of them!? That would not go over well where i work!

We only have one now. The other one got fired.

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As a hiring manager, I can tell you that it's rather slim pickings right now for any LTC nurses. I've been BEGGING for staff for months. As a DON, I'd rather hire a couple of nurses with restrictions than to burn out my own staff and run short. The unit manager/charge nurse should be looking at the assignment and making it more even.

it's also possible that it wasn't Known that there was a restriction. Once you say someone is hired, you can't take it back because of addiction. That's considered discrimination.

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As a hiring manager, I can tell you that it's rather slim pickings right now for any LTC nurses. I've been BEGGING for staff for months. As a DON, I'd rather hire a couple of nurses with restrictions than to burn out my own staff and run short. The unit manager/charge nurse should be looking at the assignment and making it more even.

it's also possible that it wasn't Known that there was a restriction. Once you say someone is hired, you can't take it back because of addiction. That's considered discrimination.[/QUOT

Do most of the nurses tell the truth at their interview about their restrictions, or do most of them just keep quiet until after they are hired?

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Confused, why would you have to go before the BON after a suicide attempt? Why is that their concern? Look at all that is going on with cops lately and yet, they still work with guns, batons, handcuffs and stunguns.

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