dispensing meds???

When a skilled resident goes home, we do not send their meds with them. We keep them to be destroyed. (I think that is ridiculous). I get a new patient in at 7PM on a Saturday nite. I will not get their meds from the company pharmacy until Tuesday around noon. That is b/c our pharmacy closes at 6 pm and does not work on Sunday (I know that no one needs meds on the Lord's day). I can't get the orders to our pharmacy until Monday. They don't deliver Monday b/c they got no orders on Sunday. So they will come on Tuesday. The local back up pharmacy is only open till noon on Saturday, and they seem to agree that people do not need meds on Sunday, so they don't open until 9ish on Monday morning. Now I refer back to the skilled resident who went home. Add that to the 10 other ones who left. (We do alot of rehab). Between all those dc'd residents' meds, I have all the meds I need for the new resident. But if I use those to give to the new resident it is illegal b/c I am dispensing meds????!!! So the resident is just supposed to do without? My boss said to call the doctor and get a substitute that we have in the ekit. Great idea, but there is just not much to substitute for lovenox (coumadin was ineffective), or 360 mg of lasix a day (the ekit only has 240 mg total), or SL morphine when someone has pain from bone cancer (a previous resident went home with hospice). Furthermore, my boss says that giving meds (untouched and undammaged) that had belonged to another person (meds just waiting to be destroyed) is dispensing meds b/c they were not specifically labeled for the new patient. But the meds from the ekit are not specifically labeled for the new patient either, so isn't that dispensing meds also?????

And the above comment about the Lord's day is not antireligious. Please don't think that. It is just hard for me when I need meds on Sunday and can't get them.