mooreluvn07

Hi. I am new to allnurses.com. I am in a similar situation to this thread. I went to lunch with several coworkers and three of us consumed one alcoholic beverage each. We all know that this was extremely poor judgement on our parts. We had all clocked out prior to leaving for lunch as it was going to be a couple of hours until our next case would be done. We were off the premises when the one alcoholic beverage was consumed followed by a full meal and water or soda. We clocked back into work in an hour. Upon clocking in, we sat and waited for another hour and a half or so for the surgeon to come. We were reported by a couple of students who had shown up at the restaurant and were called in two days later and immediately fired without a drug test. There were not any complaints against us from the surgeons or our coworkers that we were intoxicated as truly, we weren't and would not have tested positive. I do know we were wrong and should be punished, but do you feel we should have been fired immediately. Also, we were instructed to self-report to the BON prior to our Assistant Administrator contacting the BON the following day. Do you feel like this should have reported to the BON for intoxication on the job?