Your monitoring program allow whipits?

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Does your monitoring program allow you to use whipits? I will confess to using whipits during monitoring. For those who don't know, they aren't addictive.

Do you, or have you ever used, whip its? Does your monitoring program forbid them?

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I will say I rather like having the nitrous oxide during dental procedures as it helps keep me calm, but I don't think I would care to feel that way just for the heck of it.

Oh yes, nitrous is lovely lol. If I ever have another kid, I will travel as far as I need to to give birth in a hospital with nitrous.

OP, maybe ask your program if whipits are allowed. I am sure they can give you a good answer (which is, to save you the time- a big fat NO). As far as I know, there is no screening test for nitrous use as it is out of your system in seconds, so yes- you could likely get away with it. But as previous posters have said, if you are trying to game the system, that is a clear indication that you likely have a problem with drugs.

Nurses have direct access to highly addictive drugs. There is a reason health care providers struggle with high rates of addiction. We can pull a vial of dilaudid out of the pyxis any time we want, and we all know that wasting procedures can be very lax in many hospitals. If you have an issue with addiction, it is waaaay too easy to just pocket that extra dilaudid. Once you do it once, it can quickly become a habit, and next thing you know, you are shorting your suffering patients on their narcotics so you can pocket it. And when you inevitably get caught and lose your job, you discover that heroin does the job quite well, at least until you OD and end up in the emergency room.

Not everyone who uses drugs recreationally is an addict. Plenty of nurses in recovery programs do not deserve to be there, and derive zero benefit from the program. But if you are spending your time in recovery trying to figure out how to get high and not get caught, then you have a major problem. I would recommend some serious navel gazing, OP. I honestly doubt you would get caught using whipits, but that is alltogether beside the point. Your life, your career, and the wellbeing of your patients is the point.

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Nooooooo. Rates of addiction in healthcare are on par with the general public.

The restaurant industry has much higher rates of addiction than the general public.

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Nooooooo. Rates of addiction in healthcare are on par with the general public.

The restaurant industry has much higher rates of addiction than the general public.

Really? I wonder why?

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It's when you take a whipped cream container, shake it, and instead of inverting it to squirt out whipped cream you hole it upright and inhale the gas. Not a very smart thing to do. It displaces the oxygen in the cells.

Gross! That's really a thing?! Wow.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
Nooooooo. Rates of addiction in healthcare are on par with the general public.

The restaurant industry has much higher rates of addiction than the general public.

Maybe because they have nitrous to make Whipits

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Not on a monitoring program and the only drug I'm taking at the moment is low dose codiene for osteoarthritis.

That said, this is a really dumb idea

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Only an idiot would do this. Or any method to get high

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Only an idiot would do this. Or any method to get high

Wait a second, here. This is the recovery forum. Calling the nurses here who are trying to work their programs "idiots" is really not necessary.

I don't know if you are in recovery. I'm not.

If I'm not "getting it", sorry. But this just sounded wrong.

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Really? I wonder why?

Probably because the worker demographic skews younger, the "work hard/play harder" mindset, and the fact that restaurants tend to be one of the very few workplaces that will hire people with a record.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
Wait a second, here. This is the recovery forum. Calling the nurses here who are trying to work their programs "idiots" is really not necessary.

I don't know if you are in recovery. I'm not.

If I'm not "getting it", sorry. But this just sounded wrong.

Farawyn,

Thanks for the shout out of support - there is a saying in the 12-step rooms that "Normies just don't get it!" I don't as a rule get offended when Normies make insensitive remarks about addiction. I think they are extraordinarily fortunate to have never experienced the "NEED" to get outside their own skin by any means possible. Though I have been sober for a long time and work a very strong program of recovery it is still a daily fight.

What I really wish would happen is that nursing schools and Med schools for that matter would spend more than approximately 7 hours teaching about addiction/dependence and that nurses in the clinical setting could show a bit more compassion for those who suffer from this disease.

Hppy

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The answer to that would be NO.

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They should teach them that the road back is considerably longer than the road they took to get where they are. No matter how far down the wrong road you've come.....STOP ..it's still the wrong road!!!

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