A method of tracking medications to be administered includes assigning, in a computing device, a medication to a slot in a cart insert for a medication cart. Medication tracking data is recorded in a database for the location of that medication and the identity of an individual to whom the medication is to be administered. The cart insert with the medications packed therein is loaded into a medication cart. A computing device retrieves the medication tracking data from the database, and upon selection in a computing device of the individual and medication to be administered, the computing device identifies the location of the medication in the cart by illuminating lights on the front of the drawer of the cart at which the medication is located, and lights adjacent a row and a column of slots at the intersection of which is found the slot containing the selected medication.