Narcotic medication out from the pyxis

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As you are walking into the medication pyxis area, you notice your nurse manager taking a narcotic medication out from the pyxis and swallowing the medication. You are unsure what the medication was. You are at odds about how to approach the situation. What do you do?

- Who is the most appropriate person you would go to, to report what you saw?

- How do you react to the act you saw?

- Would you confront your nurse manager directly? - Would just culture come into play if you reported what you saw?

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