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How about listen to your prescribing physician?
I'm inclined to, but I just got nervous with how things were worded in the disclosure from the hospital. Was just looking to see if anyone had any personal experience with this or any insight that I might not have thought of. This is my first time being drug tested lol. Thanks for your comment!
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I used to work at a hospital that has this ridiculous drug policy, especially in regards to prescription meds. Bedside staff were not allowed to use any prescribed controlled substances within 24hrs of working, even if it was legally prescribed. They didn't have this policy for non-controlled. So by their policy you could take 300 mg Elavil (honking dose) every day and the standard was is you appeared safe to work. But don't think about taking 1 tablet of lomotil (schedule V anti-diarrheal), or 5mg ambien before bedtime. Then you would be in violation. Took forever to get people back from LOA for surgery cause they had to be off narcs pretty much completely.
Stupid.
OP, you should be fine. If not, then you wouldn't want to work for them anyway.
NYtoFLRN
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Hello all! I was recently offered a new grad position at a hospital that I really wanted to work at- I'm very happy about it. I'm a little worried though, because I received all of my paperwork this week and there is a VERY extensive medical questionnaire that I have to fill out. I was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago as an adult, and I take Vyvanse 40mg daily. It makes a world of a difference for me. Truly. I take my medication exactly as prescribed. I'm still worried because of the way the drug test disclosure is worded in my paperwork. This is what it says:
I don't think my medications make me unsafe at performing my job- if anything they help me. But I'm still worried that this will be a problem for them. What should I do? My MD told me that they shouldn't have a problem with it and told me to just bring my prescription information with me to the drug test. Do I keep taking my medication and do this? Should I stop my medication so that I don't test positive at all? (I wouldn't lie about my ADD on the forms either way). Am I way overthinking this? I don't use any other drugs at all, so this is my only issue. Thanks!