MDS Coordinator salaries

If there was that big of need, then definately everyone available should have chipped in or been assigned to work the floor. I have been in LTC for 10 years from being a CNA, LPN, and almost an RN. I have seen alot with holding different positions under these titles. Kind of like when I was a CNA my thoughts were "them nurses never do anything alot of the day but pass medicine and chart" then as a nurse I realized that nurses are extremely busy and passing meds and charting could very well take up 7 hrs of your day, and that it wasn't due to just laziness, etc. Then as an LPN on the floor, I would say things like them management people, (and MDS nurses) never ever come out of their office and they just all have it made, etc. but now as an MDS nurse, I see just how much manaement nurses go through, expecially DONs! Kind of off the topic, but I think that everyone has a specific job to do, and the comment of MDS nurses work 40 hrs all daylight, well that is what comes with the job territory, and if other people don't like it, then they too can find a different position. Anyways, in my facility we report to the Administrator, and our job is strictly financial, and we were just recently taken off of the on call schedule for that reason to concentrate solely on reimbursement, and if you are constantly working the floor, you can't do a good job with that. Where I work, the unit managers are on call when needed, but at any rate if times are hard, I have no problem chipping in.

Two yrs. ago I when I worked as an MDS corrd. I made $55,000 a year. This also including taking turns being on call every 3 or 4th weekend and working the floor when someone called in sick. I was responsible for completing the MDS for 90 skilled care pts. and running two careplan meetings/week. I live in central VA.