Very Concerned (please read)

[CuriousGreorge7]

hello,

I am a student working on my CNA currently and then going to a fast paced LPN school but i do have concerns about currently and futuristicly......

ok i applied for a job as a UA(Unit Assistant) and a MA (Meal Assistant) at a local heritage manor its a nursing home and i did do a on the spot drug test and i will be honest like i was with them 2 weeks prior to the testing i did smoke pot at a party i guess enough to make me fail i want to be a nurse more than anything in my life i have been clean but this is the catch.....since i failed i have been put on the hot list for heritage manors all over the state... i have to do my CNA clinicals at a heritage manor and LPN clinicals at one to will this effect anything since i failed i have been clean and i do have to take drug tests for my CNA and LPN program can i still do my schooling or will the facilitys look me up and see im on there and kick me out im soo worried its not like im going to work for them......can someone one please give me some answers ive been loosing sleep over this you dont no how bad i want to do this with my life.....i wish i never did it.....but can i still get my CNA and LPN and someday RN with this happened please right back as soon as possible please and thank you.....

Sincerly,

Curious George

[vegas2009]

Agree with this.

A friend of mine, after accruing debt to graduate from a prestigious BSN program, was working at an excellent teaching facility - had acquired advanced training her specialty, and was well on her way. She was also trying to decide between NP or CRNA school. A couple of unusual patterns of pyxis use and the unit got drug tested, and she got popped. Now, she is not employed, is facing the BON, not being able to pay off her student loans

I have a question, on nurses who get caught one way or the other -- they get their licenses suspended, then they pay fines and eventually they get their licenses back right? Assuming of course, they follow the requirements of the BON's orders to get their licenses back. I assume it will take years.

Isn't the proces similar to what doctors go through (assuming they didn't kill anyone)?

I've heard of nurses who get addicted, but I don't quite understand why though. I guess it depends on how a person's brain is wired? Probably not? It's funny, because there was a study done on addiction-prone people a few years ago. Humans mostly have the same biological connection/function, but some scientists are still puzzled on addiction. You take two people with pretty much the same biological make-up, almost the same background -- then, give them each a drug/alcohol. At least, ONE of them will be hooked to the stuff! The other wouldn't even think of the drug/alcohol the next day. So, what makes a person become an addict?

I think the scientists were trying to come up with a pill to stop addiction-prone people in becoming addicts. A pill that one takes and stops them from being addicted to food, sex, drugs, meds, etc. --- the wonder pill?