Failure to Administer Pain Medication per Physician Orders
Penalty
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Summary
Facility staff failed to administer pain medications according to physician orders for one resident. The resident had physician orders for Norco to be given for moderate to severe pain and acetaminophen for mild pain, with specific instructions based on the resident's pain scale rating. Despite these orders, staff administered Norco when the resident reported pain levels of 1 and 2, which should have been managed with acetaminophen per the physician's instructions. There was no documentation that acetaminophen was ever given. The DON confirmed that staff did not follow the physician's orders. Facility policies required staff to assess pain using a 10-point scale and to administer medications only as ordered by a physician.