<p>Second hand smoke, no (my facility doesn’t test for nicotine as they don’t care), brownies I avoid anyway (damned low carb diet X( ), same with rolls of any kind (though I believe they now can distinguish between a poppy seed roll and narcotics?), so I don’t really worry about any kind of false positives. But weed will get you fired for sure. </p>
<p>Some facilities will fire you for having benzos or narcotics on board even if prescribed if it appears you had any in your system while working. Fired for presence of controlled substances without a valid prescription. Ditto with positive alcohol while working, no matter the level.</p>
<p>If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t want a nurse pushing an IV drug into my body or giving me other meds if she was not completely sharp. There are med errors, and then there are MED ERRORS.</p>
<p>Secondhand smoke is not always from tobacco (though you can smell the difference), and some places don’t want employees to be smoking anything because of the cost of employer-provided medical insurance.</p>
<p>Sounds like from what nrdsb4 has described, it is highly unlikely she is hanging around with a bunch of pot smokers. Might be time to let that go.</p>
<p>When I was about 12 years old, I saw a TV production (black and white) of a nurse who became addicted to morphine shooting it up. It scared the crap out of me. A great performance seriously. I just knew that I NEVER wanted to be like that.
Tried pot in college and never anything more.
Took Percocet following my TKR and don’t recall ever once feeling anything but pain relief. Once I had no pain I didn’t even think about the remainder in the cupboard.
I’m very thankful.<br>
Our oldest son scared me poopless for a couple of years but the path a friend took eventually made a big impact on him. That friend died at age 31 of an Oxy overdose. His parents had tried everything humanly possible to save him.</p>
<p>VaBluebird: You are very fortunate. Nothing had an impact on my son, not even being near death multiple times in intensive care. In the words of his sponsor “he couldn’t be saved.”</p>
<p>VaBluebird: You are very fortunate. Nothing had an impact on my son, not even being near death multiple times in intensive care. In the words of his sponsor “he couldn’t be saved.”>>>>>>></p>
<p>I’m so sorry. That is heartbreaking. My son’s friend influenced a group of friends, not just my son. They saw what was happening with him and chose not to go down that path with him. I sometimes wonder if that would comfort his parents to know that, to know his life wasn’t totally wasted? Believe me, I think about it a lot.</p>
<p>I hope that my son’s life wasn’t wasted. Various laws were passed banning certain items because of his death. Unfortunately, the more creative types have the knowledge to circumvent any laws. My son died from the drugs he manufactured and sold online. Rumors on various drug forums have implied that others have died from what he made but there is no hard evidence of this. A parent contacted us whose son died about a month before mine because she had found a bill of sale from my son’s company and thought it was his product that killed her son. She later determined that it was another vendor’s product. Every thing my son manufactured was perfectly legal and extremely dangerous as a lot of people have discovered.</p>
<p>I had a roommate who was a hospital RN.
She was addicted to barbiturates.
I don’t know what safety nets are now in place, but there is a high rate of substance abuse in the medical profession.</p>
<p>I still remember my pediatrician, who would call my mom into his office instead of the examining room so he could smoke while he talked to us.
He later became the director of Blue Shield in our area, but dont know if he ever quit smoking.
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