This is my first RN job offer so I had no idea I would be drug tested when I went in that day to sign paperwork (I would not have drank at all had I have known this). I thought they would give me a 3 day heads up and send me to a lab corp. So my employment at this nursing home is contingent upon me passing a drug and background check.
The night before I drank about 10 or 11 beers, I probably went to sleep around 1am and the drug test was around 11am the next day.
Is this going to show up in the urine drug test? I'm a small person (5'8, 130 llbs) so I don't know if it had metabolized out of my system yet. I did feel a little buzzed that morning.
I'm freaking out, will they report me to the BON if alcohol shows up?
I wish they would've told me that I'd be taking a drug test when I went in to sign paperwork
so what would they do if they suspected anything? rescind the offer because they thought i was drunk?
I felt for you in the beginning of this thread. Thought you were over the top with drinking that much at one time and even more so the night before going in to sign job paperwork. But I was still sympathetic. Now I'm just annoyed.
Don't mean to be harsh, but I find it odd that someone who is absolutely obsessing now wasn't more careful the night before the appointment.
The bottom line is that no amount of after-the-fact reassurance from us can make up for your prior lack of good judgment.
rn/writer, don't even bother trying to sound reasonable with these people.
They come on here ASKING for our years of experience and PROFESSIONAL advice, which we try to give in a mature manner, then we get abused. I have just been abused by another poster, who answered her own question about leaving nursing then decided it was all my fault because she got a realistic answer.
These people do not really want help from us. They want people to say oh never mind, it was OK you were doing such-and-such when u knew it was wrong or illegal or whatever; it's OK you went into nursing without a realistic clue of what you would be facing; don't worry that you don't really want realistic and/or different answers. Why bother coming on here?
I wouldn't waste my typing skills on these unrealistic idiots.
rn/writer, don't even bother trying to sound reasonable with these people.
They come on here ASKING for our years of experience and PROFESSIONAL advice, which we try to give in a mature manner, then we get abused. I have just been abused by another poster, who answered her own question about leaving nursing then decided it was all my fault because she got a realistic answer.
These people do not really want help from us. They want people to say oh never mind, it was OK you were doing such-and-such when u knew it was wrong or illegal or whatever; it's OK you went into nursing without a realistic clue of what you would be facing; don't worry that you don't really want realistic and/or different answers. Why bother coming on here?
I wouldn't waste my typing skills on these unrealistic idiots.
Carol, believe me, I know. I get this attitude all the time. I think it would be most helpful if the original posts included a template with the answers that they wanted so we could just use that and save ourselves the grief. Party on dudes :cheers:
so what would they do if they suspected anything? rescind the offer because they thought i was drunk?
I felt for you in the beginning of this thread. Thought you were over the top with drinking that much at one time and even more so the night before going in to sign job paperwork. But I was still sympathetic. Now I'm just annoyed.
Don't mean to be harsh, but I find it odd that someone who is absolutely obsessing now wasn't more careful the night before the appointment.
The bottom line is that no amount of after-the-fact reassurance from us can make up for your prior lack of good judgment.
rn/writer, you said it better than I ever could. I first answered wanting to try to be at least reassuring (even though I've stated all along WE can't answer for them). Now...yup, irritated. We could all oblige and say "no, don't worry, you'll be fine, blah blah blah" but that won't affect the actual outcome.
People just don't want to hear what they don't want to hear.
I was still perfectly coherent. It's not like I was starting orientation that day. I was there for 10 minutes signing papers and taking that drug test. and like I said I wouldn't have drank had I known there was going to be a drug test
I've learned my lesson now but I don't know if it's too late
Buzzed people aren't perfectly coherent. Don't you think they probably smelled the alcohol/beer on you?
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I am know my limits though :|
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I felt for you in the beginning of this thread. Thought you were over the top with drinking that much at one time and even more so the night before going in to sign job paperwork. But I was still sympathetic. Now I'm just annoyed.
Don't mean to be harsh, but I find it odd that someone who is absolutely obsessing now wasn't more careful the night before the appointment.
The bottom line is that no amount of after-the-fact reassurance from us can make up for your prior lack of good judgment.