Healthcare · Pharmacy · Instrument
Print this. Walk to the cabinet. Then try to answer a question about last Tuesday.
Part 1 takes ninety seconds and everything passes. Part 2 is where you learn something. It takes about twenty minutes, it stages nothing, and it names no one.
Nothing is stored. Nothing is sent. No email, no login — this sheet is yours.
Pharmacy · walk-and-look
Nine things to check and ask
Note the answer, not a score. A “don’t know” is itself a finding — it means the record has never been asked to line up.
Part 1 — the things that work
1. Walk to the main controlled-substance storage. Is it locked, and does the badge log?
It will. Move on — that’s the point.
2. Is there a camera on it?
There will be.
3. Walk to the busiest floor-level dispensing cabinet — the ED’s, if you have one. Same two questions.
Same two answers. Part 1 is over in ninety seconds.
Part 2 — the question the records have to answer
4. Who is watching that camera right now?
Not “is it recording.” Who is watching. A recording is fine — if it can be retrieved and lined up later.
5. Pick last Tuesday, 2am. Can you produce who opened that cabinet?
Probably yes. Keep going.
6. Can you produce, on the same timeline, what was dispensed, what was ordered, what was wasted, and who was on shift?
This is the whole page. If the systems don’t line up, you’ll find it standing there.
7. How long did that take?
If it took an hour, an investigator asking months from now has already lost.
8. Is the video for that minute still there?
Retention window versus how long a diversion investigation takes to even begin.
9. Ask who chairs your diversion committee. Then ask when security last sat at it.
A name and a date, or neither. Both are findings.
Nothing on this sheet asks you to evaluate a person or identify anyone. The record exists so a question can be answered — which protects the innocent as much as it resolves anything. It’s about whether the systems reconcile, checked on an ordinary day.