Nursing jobs where you don't pass Narcs

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While the stipulation is not on my license yet I have a pretty good feeling that it will be soon. I'm not going to "have access to or be accountable for any narcotic medication". Short story is that I failed a drug test for a new job because I took left over oxycodone that I had. Anyway, my question is are there many, if any, nursing jobs that I could do and not worry about passing narcotics to patients. Any help would be appreciated. Not the proudest moment of my live but it was my fault.

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.

Possibly a specialty clinic where all the patients are seen by appointment and there is nothing like urgent care. Dermatology, maybe? I can't think of any type of inpatient setting where narcotics wouldn't be a possibility. Good luck.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing, Pediatrics.

Flu shot clinic..but that's during flu season.

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Red Cross?

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Specializes in CMICU.

Dialysis?

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Home care case manager

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Specializes in Neuroscience.

School Nurse

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

I don't think being a home care case manager would work. Even if you weren't directly involved in dispensing narcs, some of the patients, particularly those who are post-op, would have narcs in their homes and may ask the nurse to assist with their administration, fill their weekly pill dispenser, etc.

The only position I've ever worked in nursing where I had zero contact with narcs was in dialysis, both chronic and acute. The chronic units don't stock or dispense them, and in the acute setting, the hospital staff nurse would dispense them to a dialysis patient if needed, not the dialysis nurse.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

1. Blood banks

2. Occupational health centers

3. County jail intake centers

4. Employee health nurse at a hospital system

5. Group home for developmentally disabled clients

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Dialysis. No narcs and always desperate for nurses.

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Thank you all for the help. You've given me a ton of hope that I'll be able to find something. Not proud of what I've done, but what's done is done. I can't work home health so your exactly right westieluv I can't work there. Thanks again everyone.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

Urgent Care. In my area they don't dispense or prescribe narcs.

Vaccine clinics.

Classroom or lab instructor for a CNA program.

Baby nurse.

Foot Care nurse.

Wellness Clinics.

Infection Control

NCLEX tutor

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