Failure to Secure and Lock Medication Carts
Penalty
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Summary
The facility failed to ensure that medications were properly stored and secured, as required by policy and professional standards. On two separate occasions, staff members left medication carts unlocked and unattended. Specifically, an LPN entered a resident's room and left the Memory Care medication cart unlocked and unattended, while an RN gathered medications and supplies at the 300 Hall medication cart, then walked away, leaving a resident's medications unattended and out of sight. Both staff members acknowledged that medications should not have been left unsecured, and the Director of Nursing confirmed that medication carts and medications should not be left unlocked or unattended.