Lafayette Group Home Case Study

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I arrived to work at Lafayette Group Home (LGH) on November 11, 2017, at approximately 6:50A.M, for my 7:00 A.M shift. I greeted my co-worker Glenda who was in the kitchen when I arrived and we talked briefly. Afterward, I went to the back bedroom’s to wake up the consumer’ for them to come out into the kitchen for them to take their medications. Glenda left shortly after I returned to the kitchen. At that Point, I got the keys from out of the kitchen cabinet for the medicine closet.
When I went to unlock the medicine closet with the key, I notice that the closet door was slightly closed. So, I pulled the door open and proceeded to take out the first consumer medication container. I then gave out the medicine to the first consumer. Then

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