Nursing Home News — Page 619

The resident, identified in inspection records only as R1, was admitted to Thrive of Lisle with moderate dementia.

A normal blood sugar runs between roughly 70 and 140.

The deficiency was tagged at a level indicating minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting a small number of residents.

The facility's own policy, revised in 2016, lays out the sequence clearly.

The doctor's documentation uploaded automatically to a miscellaneous tab inside each resident's electronic chart.

The right lower leg had four separate skin tears, each roughly 2 centimeters long, sealed with Dermabond, a medical-grade skin adhesive.

LPN-B cleansed the wound with a skin prep wipe, applied bacitracin ointment, and put on a new foam dressing.

The medication at the center of it, lorazepam, is a schedule IV controlled substance.

The resident, identified in inspection records only as R1, was transported to the hospital.

When a surveyor walked through the rooms with the Assistant Director of Nursing on the morning of November 20, both containers were visibly overfilled.

The resident, identified in inspection records only as R3, told inspectors he used the cream when his arm ached and the drops when his eyes felt scratchy.

The shower records helped explain why.