Safeguard Screening » healthcare background checks http://www.safeguardscreening.com Your source for Employment Screening Background Checks Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:08:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New DOT Drug test regimen goes into effect http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2010/new-dot-drug-test-regimen-goes-into-effect/ http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2010/new-dot-drug-test-regimen-goes-into-effect/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:02:20 +0000 Safeguard Screening http://www.safeguardscreening.com/?p=161 The Department of Transportation has enacted changes to the DOT compliance drug test regimen effective October 1st, 2010.  While the drug test is still a 5 panel regimen, it will include new testing for HDMA (Esctasy) and lower cut off levels for amphetamines and cocaine.    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that as much as 10 percent additional users of cocaine and amphetamines will be identified with the lower testing amounts.

The DOT drug test will continue to test for following 5-panels Marijuana (THC), Cocaine, Amphetamines, Opiates, and Phencyclidine (PCP).   To the amphetamines group, the DOT is adding initial testing for MDMA (Ecstasy) and confirmatory testing for MDMA, MDA, & MDEA.

It should be interesting to see what happens across the transportation industry due to the lower result levels for amphetamines.  While the new drug Ecstasy might not be a drug of choice among drivers, the allure of using amphetamines to help keep going on a long haul is much more industry relevant.

Need to establish a DOT-drug testing program?  Contact Corra Group, a nationwide provider of DOT drug testing compliance programs, including DOT employment verifications, DOT Physical exams, and random drug testing management.

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FACIS stands for “Fraud and Abuse Control Information System” which provides information on sanctioned individuals working in the healthcare field.  There are three levels of Facis. Level 1 combines the databases of the OIG and GSA, Level 2 adds a list of federal disciplinary action information from multiple agencies, and level 3, includes additional disciplinary actions from licensing and certification agencies across the country.



]]> http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2009/healthcare-screening-services-the-facis-search/feed/ 0 Nova Scotia Nurses union unhappy with criminal background check plan http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2008/nova-scotia-nurse-union-unhappy-with-criminal-background-check-plan/ http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2008/nova-scotia-nurse-union-unhappy-with-criminal-background-check-plan/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:30:59 +0000 Safeguard Screening http://www.safeguardscreening.com/?p=28 The College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia will start requiring all prospective Nurses to conduct a $30 Canadian Criminal background check. The must pay for the background check themselves.  An honor system is currently inplace and all nurses must report any criminal offeneses on their annual renewal.  The college executive director thinks that requiring the prospective nurses to pay for their own background check is prohibitive and she feels that the honor system is working.  

We agree that having prospective candidates pay for their own background check may force them to apply elsewhere.   There is a shortage of nurses in the United States and Nova Scotia nurses may do well to travel south of the border. 

We disagree that the honor system is working.  The honor systems works for those who do not commit crimes.  It is naive to believe that those nurses commit crimes, will honorably report all crimes on renewal.  The honor system, while high minded and should reflect the decency and civility of Nova Scotia, is subjecting medical patients to the “honor” of a criminal minded nurse.  By reductio ad absurdum, imagine a child molesting nurse.  Are we to believe that such a nurse would admit such crimes or convictions to the nursing college knowing that this information would assuredly ruin her chance to keep her job.   The college rightfully has instituted a background check program to protect the populace.

 

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