Failure to Maintain Full-Time Director of Nursing
Penalty
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Summary
The facility failed to provide the services of a full-time Director of Nursing (DON) as required by its own Facility Assessment and job description. According to the Administrator in Training, a significant number of management staff, including the DON, stepped down from their positions on the same day. The former DON reverted to working as a floor nurse and ceased fulfilling DON responsibilities, leaving the facility without anyone in the DON role for an interim period. This lapse was confirmed by facility records and interviews, and at the time of the survey, the facility had 75 residents and no designated DON overseeing nursing services.