Portable nursing center

A portable nursing center comprising:

• a) a housing having a base and a plurality of wheels attached to the base;
• b) a plurality of patient drawers carried by the housing, each of said drawers being movable between a given position and a closed position each drawer sized and configured for holding pharmaceutical items which have been prescribed for a specific patient;
• c) patient identification means affixed to each patient drawer;
• d) at least one on demand drawer carried by the housing, movable between an open position and a closed position and being sized and configured to hold pharmaceutical and other nursing items used on an as needed basis;
• e) a control unit for selectively locking said patient drawers and at least one on demand medication drawer to prevent access thereto, said control unit including data entry means for entry of predetermined access data and other data, lock means for selectively locking and unlocking said patient drawers and on demand medication drawers and a processing unit with an associated memory for unlocking selected drawers in response to entry of access data while maintaining other drawers in a locked condition and recording at least a portion of the access data;
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• f) a transmitter connected to the central unit for transmitting selected access data and other data from the medication dispensing center to a remote receiver, the nursing center being sized and constructed so that when filled with pharmaceuticals and other nursing items, the nursing center can be moved through a nursing area by a single nurse.