Nurses smoking weed?

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Hey nurses,

In honor of "420" tomorrow... As a health-care professional, what are your thoughts on smoking weed? Any nurses out there that smoke a joint here and there?

Cheers.

Ah, yeah.. " I am not exactly sure what you mean by this..."

Did you mean that there is "no doubt" that nurses should provide care for

people presenting as patients who are "...under the influence..."

- or that the nurse "should care for patients...",

even if the nurse is "...under the influence..."?

I think that it is right that nurses are held to be functionally unimpaired

by drugs while on duty..

As for the "its legal" so its ok, or "its illegal" therefore it is not..

Well, as nurses I feel we are responsible for our proper ethical approach,

regardless of such arbitrary values..

I note that the nurse-researcher who was studying the nurses who were

"legally" following the directions of Nazi SS Dr J. Mengele drew flak -

for even daring to approach the subject..

Are there any nurses here - who are currently working for state security agencies

doing 'legally sanctioned' but perhaps - ethically dubious - duties facilitating

potentially risky 'interrogation techniques' & would care to comment?

Nazis. Nice leap. Cheese doodles?

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THC itself is very lipofilic, it has a Vd of 3.5/kg and is also highly protein bound. THC has a half-life of more than 30 hours. 11-hydroxy-THC also is lipofilic and has a similar half-life. Drugs screen look for THC-carboxylase because it is even further downstream and persists the greatest amount of time and while not psychoactive it is diagnostic for use, just like methadone metabolites. Drug screening is not done for psychoactive reasons, it's done to diagnose substance use/abuse.

The excretion half life of THC, which includes the time it spends as an inactive metabolite, is often quoted at about 30 hours, but the duration of circulating active forms of THC is not anywhere near that. Peak concentrations of the active forms of THC typically range from 50-200 ng/ml, and fall to less than 5ng/ml in less than 3 hours and to

Drugs and Human Performance FACT SHEETS - Cannabis / Marijuana ( D 9 -Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC)

There are two main tests used for testing marijuana, testing for any use at all which tests for the inactive metabolite, or testing for active THC levels, which is what is used to confirm being currently under the influence for DUI, impairment at work, etc.

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Sleep deprivation, under-staffing, restricted resources, bottom(-line) feeding, staffing harrassment, violent management practices, etc. Lots of unsafe, legal practices. Some even highly valued but denied.

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Nazis. Nice leap. Cheese doodles?

Nazi medical science did clearly establish the link between smoking & cancer..

..causing meaningful national anti-smoking reforms to be instituted, ~80 years ago..

Or were you making a "munchies" reference, Farawyn?

In that case, I can't usefully comment, as I've never injested 'Cheese Doodles"..

But perhaps you missed my point about what is deemed 'legal'..

..not being the be-all/end-all of ethical propriety for nurses?

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Hey nurses,

In honor of "420" tomorrow... As a health-care professional, what are your thoughts on smoking weed? Any nurses out there that smoke a joint here and there?

Cheers.

My thoughts are that if I did that I'd lose my job, that's a fact. My thoughts are that I like my job, need my job, and wouldn't do anything as inherently stupid as smoking illegal substances while I still intend to keep my job.

it's not news that it's illegal to use this in most of the country and it's also not news that it's against federal law even if it's legal by state law which makes it illegal for most of us nearly all the time. the only question on the table is whether any nurses you asked this question to on this thread are engaging in illegal behavior and are foolish enough to share that information on the not-so-anonymous internet.

My thought is also that while it's nice for people to think it doesn't matter what they do on their own time I think it does matter since it potentially affects other people negatively. A coworker I used to have would come to work stoned and he sure didn't think he was stoned, and that was the real problem! He no longer has a job and I don't think he has a license either, although I never bothered to check. He was probably one of those people telling you how using drugs didn't mess him up at all lol well I can tell you there were plenty of people who disagreed with him on that.

come to think of it I remember someone who was obviously Tanked and he didn't see that as the case, seems to me that if a person's own judgment is so screwed up that they can't assess themselves they sure shouldn't be anywhere near patients who need help!

anyone here willing to raise a hand to say that they are sometimes unable to determine if they are safe to practice? That sometimes they think they are fine but really aren't? No? then there really IS a problem isn't there.

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Nurses should not be afraid to lose their license if they smoke. Other professions do not and the War on drugs is a planned political joke.

Now, what were talking about ... and where are those Oreos?

Holy crap, have you had the skinny mint ones?

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I'm from Australia and I've seen a lot of bosses turn a blind eye to it, but aslong as they aren't doing it at work

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Congress lifted the Federal Ban on medical marijuana on December of 2015. They allow the states to decide. Not too well known, did not get too much coverage.

Nope. "The medical marijuana amendment, introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), prohibits the Justice Department (which includes the Drug Enforcement Administration) from spending money to "prevent" D.C. or the states from "implementing...laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana." The Rohrabacher amendment passed the House last May with support from 219 members, including 49 Republicans. A Senate version, co-sponsored by Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), was introduced in June but never got a vote."

Spending Bill That Blocks Marijuana Reform Also Blocks Federal Interference With Marijuana Reform - Hit & Run : Reason.com via forbes

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I dislike weed. I barely tolerate alcohol. So, no, I won't be celebrating 420 now or when I'm a nurse.

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FYI, it can show up in urine for as long as 30 days after using. I would never risk my license for using

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I think the phrase is "weed is whack". 😎

Weed is stupid.
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I think the phrase is "weed is whack". [emoji41]

Or "Weed Whacker"

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