pre employment drug screen help

[Ozymandia]

I take Adderall and Xanax with legal prescriptions. I am applying with memorial Hermann system. Could I not get hired because of this? Will I be viewed as week and unstable?

any advice appreciated

[Ozymandia]

Excuse the typos guys I'm feeding baby

[BeachsideRN, ASN]

Drug results are reported as pass or fail to HR. If the lab gets a positive result your file and specimen will be sent for further testing. The MRO (medical review officer) is independent and will call you and let you know what your screen was positive for and ask you to provide valid Rx info. If you provide it, the result is reported to HR as pass

[MunoRN, RN]

Has anyone ever heard of denying emoymwnt over xanax? Oh and icing on the cake. I have a congenital problem with my knees. The groove my patella sits in is shallow

ligaments are loose. I had chronic recurrjngI have chronic recurring patellar subluxation. It's congenitAl. The groove my patella sits in is shallow. Ligaments are loose. Once or twice. Year I step on my foot wrong, or slip, and my patella (right and left do it just one at a time) will dislocate and pop out laterally making me fall. It gets stuck like this. I have to straighten my leg while pushing the knee cap back into it's place. It's very disturbing to see. It's getting harder to realign it and I can hear the bone scraping bone when I do. So I took mg prescribed vicodin and prescribed soma the day it happened and again tonight.

I'm not a drug abuser. But I do have the prescriptions I need if I am in pain, or anxious.guess that will

Be showing up to.

I've been on adderall and xanax 9 years.

Since meeting my doc and getting on my regimen I became a CNA, CMA, LVN ( 2nd in my class), RN, BSN, and I'm apying for Grad school

Now. I don't get impaired by xanax. Not like people think. I've never that a sentinel event and only 1 med error in 3 years I gave I ran instead of 2 modafinil

Bc the stock was labeled wrong.

I worked for places that prohibit benzos as an entire class, but all meds are reviewed as case by case. My back goes out every year or two, often requiring muscle relaxers and/or norco, my option has been to either go on light duty (non-patient care) or take a leave of absence. Since I am typically stuck on the floor for a day or two (thus the norco and muscle relaxers) leave of absence is pretty much my only choice. I will say that I don't think many if not most employers enforce limitations on prescription drug use in order to work.

[MunoRN, RN]

In terms of your license, the misconception that you can't fail a drug screen if you have a prescription is a potentially dangerous one, I know of one nurse who nearly lost her license because of this.

For occupations that can't be designated as "safety sensitive", the only legal option for drug screening is for illegal drugs and prescription drugs being used without a valid prescription, in that case showing the MRO a valid prescription will turn a positive result into a negative result.

This is not true for most direct care nursing jobs which can be designated safety sensitive. For these jobs employers are free to designated certain drugs or classes of drugs that will result as positive with or without a valid prescription.

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

That's quite a leap. A report to the Bon for taking a legitimately prescribed medication?

Any hospital can choose to hire you, or not. Any hospital can choose to keep you employed or not. For any reason or no reason.

I would get some legal advice regarding the test, that will come back positive, and what that will mean going forward. You do not want a report to the BON regarding this.

Just be sure that you cross t's and dot i's.

Best wishes

[MunoRN, RN]

That's quite a leap. A report to the Bon for taking a legitimately prescribed medication?

If your employer requires you to declare potentially impairing medications and you don't then have a positive test then yes, there is certainly a chance a BON will take disciplinary action, I've seen it happen.