ABC or 123

[Inquisitive one]

Are your resident/patient charts, MAR,TAR, and medication carts arranged by room number or in alphabetical order? Which way is more efficient and safest. Would your facility allow them to be one way on one unit/floor and another way on another unit or do things need to be consistent throughout the facility. Do MD's prefer charts by room number or in ABC order? If a change was being considered would the floor nurses have input? I'm addressing this to LTC/Subacute facilities. Thanks

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

We are mandated in this state, and I thought it was also a federal law, to have a BOUND BOOK with NUMBERED PAGES for our narcotic book. If the binding gets the least bit bet or an index gets a little rip, we get a new book. Better check the regs before you have a bunch of papers floating around.

[nightmare, RN]

We also have bound books with numbered pages and an index.It's the law here as well.

[flashpoint]

We are mandated in this state, and I thought it was also a federal law, to have a BOUND BOOK with NUMBERED PAGES for our narcotic book. If the binding gets the least bit bet or an index gets a little rip, we get a new book. Better check the regs before you have a bunch of papers floating around.

If we had to have anything other than what we have, I'd bet we would have been busted for it a LONG time ago.

:)