MDS - Keeping up skills so you can return to "real nursing"

Hi! Sorry about the insult that MDSing is not "real nursing", but sometimes I feel that I am losing all those clinical skills that I worked so hard to aquire during school and will never be able to go back on the floor again.

I became an MDS Coordinator after being an RN for only one month by "accident". The accident was that I gave a medication by the wrong route. I was subsequently asked to leave the ER and return to Med/Surg where I had worked as an LPN for over a year. Not wishing to be back under the Med/Surg manager I knew was a tyrant, I chose to leave the hospital. I was hired by a SNF to do "Medicare forms" not knowing anything about MDS. I don't see myself doing this for the rest of my career.

So, how do I keep up my skills, or better yet, how do I apply for a job as a clinical RN after having had close to no previous clinical experience as an RN? Would a hospital even hire me into a new grad program? Kim