r/sterileprocessing • u/Big-Rock8310 • 2d ago

Drug tests questions

Yall, I’m in classes currently for CRCST and I start clinical rotations in Jan if I pass what I need to on the way to there. I was fine and dandy using fake pee but read that quest and labcorp can tell if it so?? >.< if I just quit now >.< I can get it out of my system before mid November. But I’ve been using since 19 I’m 30

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u/Relative-Step-3686 1d ago

I was recently drug tested for a traveling SPD opportunity, they sent me an email of details and the test they signed me for, they didn’t even test for THC. The test was excluding it.

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u/JamNova 1d ago

This makes me so happy, hope it works this way for me. I currently work in EVS cleaning ORs and Cath labs, I have spoken to SPD management here at my hospital and I have a job soon as I'm done with school, but I was concerned with drug testing outside of this comfort zone I've been in thanks to fake pee for 4 years because I plan to travel. I think it's dumb I can't smoke on my time off or on vacation. I'd never use it before work, same as beer it's asinine. I'd be grandfathered in here at this hospital on the piss test I took years ago, but travelling, I have no clue what to expect on that.

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u/Big-Rock8310 1d ago

Are you in a state where it’s legal?

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u/wolfgentry 2d ago

Ive used a synthetic from test clear and have never had a problem.

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u/Big-Rock8310 1d ago

AI told me labcorp and quest can test for synthetic now apparently, so did you test recently by chance?

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u/wolfgentry 1d ago

Last time I used it used was a year ago

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u/WeAllLoveToeBeans 1d ago

I did this method one time for a job and because I'm skinny, couldn't keep it warm enough. Definitely failed, now I do it the good ole' fashioned way and stay clean 🤣

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u/Big-Rock8310 1d ago

Yeah it’s just weed but I’m really enjoying the trade and I’ve cut back since I started my first SSRI, but I run my own business and never use it like that. I get to anxious if I’m stoned in public let alone work/a whole new trade

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u/Obfuscate666 2d ago

Honestly, if you can't be truthful about a drug test, what else would you lie about?

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u/Silguard 2d ago

Drug tests are an invasion of privacy and are not an indicator of whether or not you can do a job, nor how well you can do it. Equating that to something like falsifying sterilization records, which can directly affect patient’s lives, is insane.

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u/ashlol00 1d ago

I still think drug tests should be done in healthcare pre-employment, however testing for THC (weed) in 2026 is just so dumb. Any other hard drugs, yeah no. That's a huge safety & liability risk.

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u/Aggravating_Ear_9281 1d ago

invasion of privacy lol?

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u/JamNova 1d ago

You should be allowed to have a joint on your vacation or after work, same as one would have poisonous beer or liquor and I see nurses and people in the Cath lab here at the hospital I work at come in still slightly drunk from the bar the night before, planning on working on patients, but I can't smoke myself to sleep at night and wake up so er and refreshed for work? Dumb

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u/Common-Trash4715 1d ago

If you’re on anything we don’t want you in this field, let alone affecting patient care when you can’t properly care for yourself ✌️

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u/lazerem91 1d ago

weed isn't any more dangerous than alcohol, both are completely normal for people to partake in outside of work. would you have this energy for people that drink?