Explain your responsibility as an enrolled nurse when a client provides a urine sample testing positive for illicit drugs.In mental health for a...

The chief concern in this situation is to strictly adhere
to your institutions policy and procedure, whatever that may be. Different health care
institutions have varying policies on matters such as this. A second point is to not
judge the person based on the test results of the urine specimen. All individuals that
work in health care must learn to be tolerant of others and keep their own opinions to
themselves. Basically, what you think about the person or the urine results has no
bearing on the care that you must provide them. You must treat every patient with the
same amount of courtesy and respect. Thirdly, if in fact the person consumed the illicit
substance, what physical or psychological manifestations might
occur?

Further, was the chain of custody observed in
regards to the urine sample? If not, the test results could be false. Also, until we
examine the maintenance records of the specific instrumentation that ran the test, a one
hundred percent positive test result can't be ascertained. Machines, just like people,
make errors.