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how many days after a drug screen did a lab call back if positive result happened?

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I used to want to be a doctor more than anything. Then I got sick, failed a few classes, and the school refused to take them off my transcript. At that point my GPA would never be able to recover to med school standards. Switched to nursing school and I love it… but I still find myself constantly thinking about medical school. However, I now find medicine extremely intimidating. I feel like there would always be some key piece of information that I’d be missing and thus make incorrect decisions for the patient.

hello! i started my nursing program bootcamp yesterday and today, this morning they made us take a drug test ( i quit thc in april) a few weeks ago i took one hit off my friends pen during a really hard time going on with my family, it was just one, anyways they said they would say something to me to expect a call if i was positive, they never told me to expect a call, they send all samples to a lab and im expecting a call for my meds i take usually, but i took a thc test at home the second i got home and saw a FAINT really faint line for negative so im freaking out. i know i shouldn’t of hit my friends pen but it was one time and i was spiraling, i got medicated after that actually. should i be concerned

Should the nurse call the police and press charges against a patient who physically assaults them?

TLDR: Any advice for someone working in medsurg? (Full details below)

I say "'medsurg" very lightly, because I haven't had a single "real" medsurg patient since the day I got hired. Almost all our patients should really be in stepdown or even ICU, but they come to my unit because both stepdown and ICU are always full (what else is new), and we just roll with it because not like we have any other choice.

Every single shift, I feel like my license is on the line. It sucks but I know this happens a lot in other hospitals too, and guess I can't complain because it's definitely preparing me for higher acuity care, since I do hope to work in stepdown and/or ICU one day later on. Definitely not anytime soon though, because if this is what just medsurg is like, Idk about stepdown or ICU anymore...

I usually work 3 12s each week. I still feel just as lost, confused, and incomptent as my first day. I already know they're gonna chew me out for overthinking things and moving too slow, taking too long, not being efficient/managing time, multitasking/clustering care etc. But then if I stop asking questions, go faster, and do multiple things at once, they chew me out for being careless and reckless and say that I need to slow down and ask for help and do one thing at a time. Literally exact polar opposites contradicting each other.

Idk how I'm supposed to last here but I don't have a choice because I really need this job to pay rent/bills and of course to get experience. I don't wanna be "that nurse" that only lasted a few months, quit, and then couldn't get hired anywhere else. Also I realize that just transferring to somehwere else might not be the solution either, because there's always a chance that wherever I transfer to might be the same if not even worse. Sorry for the rant and long post, but thank you for reading this far.

The health care system is really just a sick care system that big pharma and insurance companies don't want you to get well they want you to receive treatment until they have milked your bank account to nothing than refuse treatment