State Findings:
**NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY**
Based on medical record review, observation, and interview, the facility failed to ensure physician ordered pain medication was available for 1 Resident (#103) of 1 resident on Patient Controlled [MEDICATION NAME] (PCA) pump (method of allowing a person in pain to administer their own pain medication) of 12 residents reviewed for pain. The facility’s failure to ensure the pain medication was available on 2 occasions between 5/4/18 and 5/7/18 resulted in an increase in pain and harm to Resident #103.
Interview with Resident #103 on 5/9/18 at 10:43 AM, in the resident’s room, confirmed when the PCA pump ran out the first time the pain was worse and stated .Yeah it probably was . Further interview confirmed the pain was worse the second time the PCA ran out stating .it got bad . Continued interview confirmed the resident stated .it needs to be on hand at all times . The resident further stated he was very upset, and if it had happened once, it should not have happened again.
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