Failure to Follow Professional Standards for Dialysis Care
Penalty
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Summary
The facility failed to maintain professional standards of care for a resident receiving dialysis services. Record review for a resident revealed that, although there was a physician's order to check the thrill and bruit of the left arm fistula every shift, there was no physician's order specifying that blood pressure should not be taken in the restricted limb. Despite this, blood pressure measurements were repeatedly taken in the limb with the dialysis fistula on multiple occasions over a period of several weeks. The Director of Nursing confirmed that there was no physician's order regarding the restricted limb at the time of review.