Failure to Properly Label and Store Medications
Penalty
Summary
During a medication storage observation, a medication cart was found to contain an opened and undated bottle of dorzolamide eye drops with no resident identifiers, an unsealed and unlabeled package of petrolatum gauze dressing, and an open and undated bottle of lactulose. The Qualified Medication Aide (QMA) present confirmed that the eye drops should have been labeled and dated, the lactulose should have been dated, and the gauze dressing should have been sealed and labeled. The facility's policy requires all medications to be stored in containers with pharmacy labels, and for opened medications to be dated and labeled accordingly. These findings indicate that the facility failed to ensure medications and biologicals were properly labeled, dated, and stored as per policy and professional standards.