I would like to ask for your opinion regarding a med issue at an ALF.
What is the better thing to do?
To admit that your facility ran out of a narcotic painkiller for a resident, and you used the pills of another resident (who became allergic and whose pills were waiting to be destroyed), or to admit that you ran out, document that the narc wasn't given, use the PRN ES Tylenol in the meantime, and get a script for the narc and get it in, even if it takes days to get an MD to come in and write it for you? The first option clearly shows, that you borrowed narcotics, the second would give your facility a deficiency, because the med wasn't available.
