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Drug-testing in the nursing home. (column)

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management

| May 01, 1988 | May, Kenneth | COPYRIGHT 1988 Vendome Group LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It does not take a keen observer to know that drug abuse, a major American problem, extends to the workplace. Nursing home owners have reasons to be particularly concerned. First of all, nursing homes have pharmacies that may contain drugs that are attractive to users. Second, nursing home employees are dealing with human beings-residents/patients-so that the impairment of employees can have dangerous consequences for the health and safety of human beings, and might not affect just productivity.

One popular and controversial idea for dealing with drug abuse in the workplace is employee drugtesting. U.S. Secretary of Labor Ann McLaughlin recently said that ...

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