Source: CMS 30-minute rule for drug administration needs revision 30-minute rule: "... requirement in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation Interpretive Guidelines to administer scheduled medications within 30 minutes before or after the scheduled time..." Nurses: requiring us to comply with this rule (i.e. give our patients their medications when they are due) will "compel" us to take short cuts, which might harm our patients...
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