Unattended and Unlocked Medication and Treatment Carts
Penalty
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Summary
Surveyors observed that both a medication cart and a treatment cart were left unlocked and unattended in the hallways of station 2. The medication cart contained residents' medications and was left unsecured when a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) was called away to attend to another issue. The treatment cart, which contained medications used for wound care, was also found unlocked and unattended, with staff indicating that it may have been left that way by a wound consultant. Interviews with the LVNs, the Director of Staff Development, and the Director of Nursing confirmed that the facility's expectation is for all medication and treatment carts to be locked when not in use or when unattended.