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Post by Vania on Apr 4, 2018 14:15:34 GMT -5
As others have mentioned, we often have brief or no contact with other CRNA's ona daily basis. This makes it difficult for us to note inconsistencies or recognize a change from baseline. We used to place wasted drugs in the narc box, but have stopped doing that, but maybe going back to this practice would allow pharmacy to randomly test. I agree that this 2 person wasting into the trash is rather pointless.
I know that a nurse I worked with that was found to be abusing was often extremely irritable, hurt themselves often (running into things etc) and sweating. These are things I happen to look out for but these can occur in just about anyone...
I also know that this same nurse was placed in treatment, completed a full recovery path and came back as a nurse, but in a job that did not have exposure to abusable drugs. They did that for 2 years and then applied to be in a patient care environment with full access, was approved for that position by the Board of Nursing, and has been successfully clean and working for 7+ years. The Board of Nursing did an excellent job integrating back into the workplace, but it took a lot of cooperation and understanding.
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