Failure to Complete Timely Background Check for Agency RN
Penalty
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Summary
The facility failed to implement its policies and procedures to prohibit and prevent abuse by not ensuring a thorough and timely caregiver background check for one agency registered nurse. Specifically, the Background Information Disclosure (BID) form for the agency RN was not dated, and the nurse began working at the facility before a properly completed BID form was on file. The Business Office Manager did not notice the missing date on the BID form and did not follow up with the agency prior to the nurse's start date. The agency later provided a BID form with an effective date after the nurse had already started working.