Failure to Administer Prescribed Medication as Ordered
Penalty
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Summary
A deficiency occurred when the facility failed to administer ketotifen, an antiallergic medication prescribed to help prevent asthma attacks, as ordered by a resident's physician. The facility's policy and procedure required medications to be administered as prescribed. Medical record review showed that the resident, who was cognitively intact and had a physician's order for ketotifen 1 mg capsules (two capsules twice daily for chronic urticaria), did not receive the medication on two consecutive days. The medication was not re-ordered in time, resulting in missed doses on the medication administration record (MAR) for those dates. The DON confirmed these findings during an interview and record review.