Each facility shall establish and implement written policies and procedures for medication control that include:

1. (1) A requirement that each resident's prescribing physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner provide to the facility electronic or written signed orders for:

   1. (a) Any medications taken by the resident;
   2. (b) Authorization for medications kept on the person or in the room of the resident; and
   3. (c) Release of medications;

2. (2) Provisions for proper storage of prescribed medications so that the medications are inaccessible to residents and visitors, with requirements for:

   1. (a) Separate storage of poisons, topical medications, and oral medications;
   2. (b) Each resident's medication to be stored in the container in which it was originally received and not transferred to another container; and
   3. (c) A medication prescribed for one resident not to be administered to any other resident;

3. (3) A requirement that a designated personnel of the facility supervise any self-administration of medications by a resident, to include:

   1. (a) A description of the responsibilities of the resident, the resident's family members, and the facility personnel; and
   2. (b) The provision of written educational material explaining to the resident and the resident's family the resident's rights and responsibilities associated with self-administration; and

4. (4) The proper disposition of medicines due to:

   1. (a) Resident discharge;
   2. (b) Resident death;
   3. (c) Outdated medication; or
   4. (d) The prescription being discontinued by the physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner.

Source: 38 SDR 115, effective January 9, 2012 ; 46 SDR 65, effective November 26, 2019 ; 50 SDR 19, effective August 30, 2023 .

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13 (9).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13 .

Prior versions effective: 2019-11-26, 2012-01-09.