DISPOSITION OF MEDICATIONS

Subpart 1. Discharged or transferred residents. If authorized by the attending physician or the physician in charge, medications belonging to residents shall be given to them when discharged or transferred. This shall be recorded on the resident's personal care record. Subp. 2. Destroying unused prescription drugs. Unused portions of prescription drugs remaining in the boarding care home after the death or discharge of the resident for whom they were prescribed or any prescriptions discontinued permanently, shall be destroyed by the person in charge in the boarding care home by flushing them into the sewer system and removing and destroying the labels from the containers. Subp. 3. Recording of disposition. A notation of such destruction giving date, quantity, name of medication, and prescription number shall by recorded on the resident's personal care record. Such destruction shall be witnessed and the notation signed by both persons.