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Narcotic Accountability in Long-term Care: A DON's Worst Nightmare is Drug Diversion

Listen boo — if there’s one thing that will make any Director of Nursing’s stomach drop, it’s drug diversion. Especially the moment you go to count, and something is off. Call it what you want. Question it how you want. But if the narcotic count isn’t matching the log? Consider it missing until it is proven otherwise. And you already know my favorite line: "It’s not about what you know. It’s about what you can prove. "That mindset is EXACTLY how you protect your patients, y

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