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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
A Viewer Writes: Drug & Alcohol Testing
I am a professional HR Director and I am a patient of a number of health care providers. I just learned something that I truly think needs to be vetted. Professional airline pilots, truck drivers, soldiers and many more are subjected to random drug and alcohol testing. Health care providers are not? Wow what a huge void. I was told they are professionals. Well so are airline pilots and HR Directors.
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Healthcare Workers are subjected to drug testing according to the Company/Health Facility they are under employment with. It is NOT Federal Regulated but most places are regulated.
Seriously?? Are you high? I'd want your idiot offspring drug tested before the people that teach them.
HR directors?
If you're in a job regulated by a federal agency (FAA, NTSB, NHTSA, DOD, and others) or paid to work through government funds - you should be drug tested. If you're an elected official - you should be drug tested! Mayor Barely would never have been reelected - and now they want a monument for him - ughh! Half the dumbocrats couldn't pass a drug test to save their life - yet they spew some of the worst legislation in the universe!
8:14 you must have hit a soft spot with 8:05....makes me wonder what they have got to hide... Hmmm
Paramedics are and I think HR directors should be.
I worked at PRMC and there was a nurse that did drugs all the time, she got them by shorting the drug order to be administered. She was hooked on pain killers.
Classically, a profession is a vocation requiring extended special education in which the practitioner is expected to act not only in the best interests of the client, but also in the best interests of society without regard for his/her own financial benefit over and above the fee received for services. So the classic professions are lawyer, doctor, clergy etc (and of course there are examples of individuals from these vocations who do not behave in a professional manner - that's a separate issue). So pilot, truck driver, soldier, HR director are not professions in the classic sense. Like the word "gentleman", the designation "professional" has broadened now and has been adopted by so many vocations that it has little meaning.
What pilot, truck driver, and soldier have in common are their potential influence on public safety. That's why the additional burden of random drug testing is borne by these individuals. Nurses typically see one patient at a time on foot and not while operating a conveyance or carrying a weapon; there is not a risk for mass casualties in this situation.
Many health care workers are drug-tested at initial employment. After that, isn't it best to stick to our principle of Innocent Until Proven Guilty rather than harrass people who are not in a position to cause mass casualties?
Politicians should be tested as well.
IMAO, Any random drug test is a violation of the 4th Amendment. It is an illegal search with no probable cause. Not that our Constitutional right are in effect these days anyway.....
Drug testing is a violation of the 4th amendment to the US Constitution.
Drug testing, on a federal level, is required on occupations that are safety-sensitive, not whether they are professional or not. Other levels such at state, city, etc., can impose their own requirements, on whichever occupation they desire I suppose, but cannot be less stringent that at the federal level. They can be more stringent, but not less.
Other levels such at state, city, etc., can impose their own requirements, on whichever occupation they desire I suppose, but cannot be less stringent that at the federal level. They can be more stringent, but not less.
November 24, 2015 at 11:47 PM
I'm not sure I phrased that correctly but hopefully you get my drift
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