Can the state come into the nursing home and change a doctor's order's regarding prescriptions?

We have exact situation. We just found out after wondering if someone was stealing her meds. We are furious. Going to meet with the director and DON on Monday. Can't believe they can do this without informing us! One of us visits almost every day. When we placed her we stated that we wanted to be in on care plans and doctor visits. Not once in the 5 months have we been told of any changes in care plans.

I'm a social worker in a facility and I have seen our pharmacy try and reduce certain medications on our long term patients about every 6 months. Throws these poor confused old people on the crazy train for a few weeks until someone says... Oh they changed her whatever again. Ask her PCP to write an order to not reduce or change those medications for the pharmacy and see if it gets you anywhere. Talk to the administrator and DON and insist they not change it. Good luck.

I don’t believe anyone should change Mom’s prescription dosage but her physician, either the one in the facility or her primary care. And also, you should always be informed whenever there is any change in anything with your Mom, from behaviors to meds. I always was. I’d call a Care Conference meeting with the facility and find out why you weren’t notified. But first, I would call her doctor and let them know what happened.