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1. Welcome to the new Learning Disability Nursing forum

   jkw replied to Brian's topic in Disabilities

   I am a registered nurse who works in geriatrics. I have a 9 year old 185lb son with autism, MR, OCD and Epilepsy. I am grateful for the forum. It helps to see the nurses perspective. I work in geriatrics-obviously I am my sons own dev. disability nur...

2. What do you think about CMS publishing LTC facility QI's to the general public?

   jkw posted a topic in Quality Improvement

   I have some issues with it being open to the public. As most of you know the MDS is very detailed w/ multiple questions to paint a full picture of the resident for that period of time. The QI reports only show a 6 month shot of the most recent assess...

3. Any LTC Quality Assurance Coordinators out there?

   jkw replied to RhondaRNConsult's topic in Quality Improvement

   rhonda, Haven't posted in a few months! Got Married! Well so what do you think about what CMS is doing about displaying our QI's to the public? Jenna

4. New F tags

   jkw replied to tex's topic in Geriatric

   I am proud- I knew what an F-tag was!

5. Any LTC Quality Assurance Coordinators out there?

   jkw replied to RhondaRNConsult's topic in Quality Improvement

   I work in a private owned facility -Actually it is owned by the Community of Christ/RLDS. Which is very large in the Independence Missouri area-actually World headquarters. I am not of their religion but it is the best facility I have ever worked. Ch...

6. Any LTC Quality Assurance Coordinators out there?

   jkw replied to RhondaRNConsult's topic in Quality Improvement

   Hello Rhonda. I am also a QA Coordinator in LTC.Ihave worked 4years in a 300 bed facility. I also function as one of the MDS coordinators on one of our floors. (we have 3 floors, each with 100 residents) Counting myself, we have 3 MDS coordinato...

7. Jobs as a Learning Disability Nurse

   jkw replied to Karat's topic in Disabilities

   Hi, I am a Registered Nurse with an 8 year old son whom is Autistic. I have found the only "nurse jobs" in which your dealing with developmentally disabled children are those preschools or child care centers that utilize school nurses. They do numero...

8. Bowel Protocol

   jkw replied to Kimmyjc's topic in Geriatric

   In our facility, Our evening med nurse is responsible for checking the bm list. If a resident has not had a bm in the last 3 days, the prn is implemented (mom,ducoolox etc) We also have a fecal impaction prevention program. Fortunately we have a QA n...

9. Should I stay at this facility???!!

   jkw replied to wendyd's topic in Geriatric

   I agree, I think you need to go with your gut. If it were me, I would contact a local hospital that maybe your doing your clinicals -and see if they have an internship program or even some time in which you can just observe some time- a teaching hos...

10. minimum fluid needs

    jkw replied to catskillrn's topic in Geriatric

    This has been a concern for me as well. Our facility Dietitian says that 1200cc of actual fluid is adequate. As you get fluid from food as well- HCFA put out specifics-how much you should have coming from fluids/food etc. Also if you are concerned a...

11. resident abuse

    jkw replied to pooh's topic in Geriatric

    First you did correct in notifying your DON. Our protocol, is to to contact immediate supervisor (house supervisor, DON) they should investigate the matter-self report to division of aging. If nothing gets done -report to division of aging yourself-a...

12. MDS - SURVEY DEFICIENCY

    jkw replied to km rn's topic in Geriatric

    I am a RAI Coordinator in Missouri. I think the best thing for MDS Coordinators are to have developed mini QA programs within the sections of MDS. Our facility has 300 residents. At this time we do not have Medicare residents (PPS). We have 3 RAI co...

13. Bowel & Bladder Retraining/Maintenance

    jkw replied to LizGaff's topic in Geriatric

    Hi, Just finished developing a Bowel and Bladder Program in my facility. I am also an RAI coordinator as well as infection control, wound nurse, and Quality Improvement Coordinator (and anything else that the facility wants me to be!) Anyway, I don'...