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Drug Testing of Health Care Professionals
The increase of substance and alcohol impaired individuals in society is a well-known and significant problem. Health care professionals, as part of the larger society, are subject to the same risks of substance and alcohol abuse and or addiction. Mandatory and or random drug testing of employees has now become a common trend in public and private business sectors.
Whereas, mandatory drug testing, whether random or comprehensive, raises numerous ethical and legal issues in areas such as invasion of privacy, presumption of innocence, and protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and
Whereas, the tests employed in screening programs have significant error rates, and
Therefore be it resolved that the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) supports drug testing of health care professionals employed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory only if there is reasonable grounds and objective evidence that work performance is, or has been impaired by substance or alcohol abuse,
Further let it be resolved that, if substance or alcohol are subsequently detected, the employee should be offered counseling and treatment prior to the institution of any permanent discipline.
Charles C. Barbiere, RN, CCRN, RCVT, CCT, CRTT, EMT
President, SICP
(April 1996)