Failure to Date and Store Opened Medications per Policy
Penalty
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Summary
Surveyors observed that nursing staff failed to ensure medications were dated upon opening and stored according to manufacturer’s guidelines, as required by facility policy and professional standards. During an inspection of a medication cart, two bottles of Lumigan eye drops, one bottle of pilocarpine eye drops, one bottle of latanoprost eye drops, and one bottle of timolol eye drops were found opened and undated. Interviews with a nurse and the Regional Director of Clinical Education and Administration confirmed that nurses are responsible for dating eye drops when opened and that this procedure was not followed in these instances.