MDS Charting Emphasis for Staff

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Hi there:

I am new to the MDS Title and really need some help with organizing charting for Nursing Staff. I got a great flow sheet from the AANAC for CNA's and would love to share this if anyone wants it. The flowchart is on Adobe Acrobat and I think I can download it for anyone here if you would like.

I am hoping to get some help with assisting staff with charting savy We all need help with support documentation for residents tht matches MDS and Staff/Nurse Charting.

Any and all help is appreciated.

:balloons: :Melody:

Hi there:

I am new to the MDS Title and really need some help with organizing charting for Nursing Staff. I got a great flow sheet from the AANAC for CNA's and would love to share this if anyone wants it. The flowchart is on Adobe Acrobat and I think I can download it for anyone here if you would like.

I am hoping to get some help with assisting staff with charting savy We all need help with support documentation for residents tht matches MDS and Staff/Nurse Charting.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Hi!

I am new to the position as well, actually did MDS years ago but not since PPS came into play. I would be very interested in seeing the documentation form for CNA's. I am in a very unique situation here as our building was wiped out by hurricanes and we are re-opening soon. No residents yet so still have time to revise forms.

Thanks!

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Oh Can I too have a copy? We have been developing our own form, and have had one that was use friendly but not comprehensive enough, one that is comprehensive but not user friendly, SO... If you could I sure would appreciate to be able to combine the three for a userfriendly, comprehensive, accurate.......

thanks ever so much.

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OOPs I did not see my post when I looked so I did another one.

Love the EDIT button!!! :rolleyes:

Have a great day!!

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I would like a copy of the form also! We have one but I don't really like it. I will PM you my fax number. Thanks.:p

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Hi there:

I am new to the MDS Title and really need some help with organizing charting for Nursing Staff. I got a great flow sheet from the AANAC for CNA's and would love to share this if anyone wants it. The flowchart is on Adobe Acrobat and I think I can download it for anyone here if you would like.

I am hoping to get some help with assisting staff with charting savy We all need help with support documentation for residents tht matches MDS and Staff/Nurse Charting.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Wow! This is such an interesting thread! Although I worked predominantly in the hospitals, I spent my last 4 clinical years in LTC. I am now studying Health Information Management and the MDS is right up our alley. Somewhere, I have a package of papers that was given to us on what to address in charting on skilled Medicare patients. They are broken down into body systems. The home where I worked pulled the current narrative nurses notes for any patient requiring that extra charting (pt. on antibiotic, pt. had a fall or other incident) and placed them in a 3-ring notebook at the nurses station. A specific charting guideline was placed next to each patient's notes so that when you opened to that patients notes, the charting guideline was on the left side and the page of nurses notes on the right. The charting guideline, of course, reflected what was on the care plan. Every charge nurse was to chart on these patients every shift. We had a supervisor and sometimes the MDS nurse who checked those notebooks every day to make sure the patients were being charted on and for the right things. I would love to pass these guidelines on to you all, but I don't know where I've got them stashed at the moment. The facility I worked for got the skilled nursing/Medicare guidelines from a MDS consulting firm and the ones for cold, flu, infections, and falls were developed by our MDS/Care plan nurse specifically for our facility.

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We developed a PPS charting form. It is two sided and has room for documentation for all three shifts. It has blanks to fill in for vital signs, objective data, subjective data, new MD orders, meal and fluid consumption, elimination, therapies and progress in therapy, etc. It also has blanks for filling in diagnosis at the top and then a space to comment on assessments/symptoms related to diagnosis. This seems the best way to get all the info we need! After it is filled out it is placed in the resident record and substitutes for the nurses note. Fattens up the charts quickly, but gets us the info!

I would like to have a copy of the form. Would you please email me a copy?

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Hi there:

I am new to the MDS Title and really need some help with organizing charting for Nursing Staff. I got a great flow sheet from the AANAC for CNA's and would love to share this if anyone wants it. The flowchart is on Adobe Acrobat and I think I can download it for anyone here if you would like.

I am hoping to get some help with assisting staff with charting savy We all need help with support documentation for residents tht matches MDS and Staff/Nurse Charting.

Any and all help is appreciated.

I would love a copy of the CNA flowsheet!! Please email to [email protected]

Thanks

Dana :balloons:

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hi, this form could help me a lot, and our facility as well... to the originator, can i pls request for a copy, can it be emailed??? if you do so permit, my email address is [email protected]

thanks a lot in advance...

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Hi there:

I am new to the MDS Title and really need some help with organizing charting for Nursing Staff. I got a great flow sheet from the AANAC for CNA's and would love to share this if anyone wants it. The flowchart is on Adobe Acrobat and I think I can download it for anyone here if you would like.

I am hoping to get some help with assisting staff with charting savy We all need help with support documentation for residents tht matches MDS and Staff/Nurse Charting.

Any and all help is appreciated.

i would like a copy of that form as well.. please PM me

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I to would like a copy

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We developed a PPS charting form. It is two sided and has room for documentation for all three shifts. It has blanks to fill in for vital signs, objective data, subjective data, new MD orders, meal and fluid consumption, elimination, therapies and progress in therapy, etc. It also has blanks for filling in diagnosis at the top and then a space to comment on assessments/symptoms related to diagnosis. This seems the best way to get all the info we need! After it is filled out it is placed in the resident record and substitutes for the nurses note. Fattens up the charts quickly, but gets us the info!

I would like a copy of this form. My email is in the thread. Tks.

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I would love a copy of the form too.

Thank you very much in advance!

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