VeryberryRN

VeryberryRN has 25 years experience and specializes in LTC.

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1. Still not sure on ending PPS with no rehab?

   VeryberryRN replied to jpav33's topic in MDS

   Happy Thanksgiving! Sounds like you haven't enjoyed your day much. Stop worrying about work and have a glass of wine. To answer your question - first of all, you really should not be covering residents coming back from a mental health stay under med ...

2. Do things fall apart when you take time off?

   VeryberryRN replied to noc4senuf's topic in MDS

   I don't envy you being the only RN over seeing the process. In NYS you have to be an RN to be an MDS coordinator. I would suggest you get your MDS nurses certified. That will help them understand the process so much better. You can take the AANAC ...

3. Do things fall apart when you take time off?

   VeryberryRN replied to noc4senuf's topic in MDS

   I appaude the way you handled the situation when you returned from vacation. Too many times these kiinds of things are allowed to slip by due to short staffing, and the staff get the misguided message that it is OK not to follow the rules. So pat you...

4. Pushing The Limit For $

   VeryberryRN replied to disney158's topic in MDS

   Sorry if I didn't answer your question. I don't think you can get into any trouble technically. Your administrator is the one that will have to take the heat with Medicare. I am having a similar problem, but it concerns Medicaid. Recently we have ...

5. Moving to Syracuse

   VeryberryRN replied to newgrad_syracuse's topic in New York

   Depending on where in the Syracuse area you want to land, there is alot to pick from. The big city Hospitals in Syracuse are University Hospital, ST.Jospephs, Communitiy General and Crouse. One of the other replys mentioned these. I live in Oswego...

6. Pushing The Limit For $

   VeryberryRN replied to disney158's topic in MDS

   You are really in a no win situation. You are absouutely correct to be concerned. Your administrator is making decisions for your entire team that can get the entire team into trouble. My concern would be if he is as unscrupulus as you say that he...

7. Is weight loss a skilled nsg need?

   VeryberryRN replied to MickRN07's topic in MDS

   you are 100% correct, all of these things are needed. however, it is almost impossible to get staff to document all of the above unless you have perfect staff. having said that, this would be a very difficult area to do an omra on. remember, it is ...

8. Turned in my Resignation

   VeryberryRN replied to rukiddingme's topic in MDS

   I am an MDS Coordinator in New York State. I have been doing my current job for three years, but have been doing MDS's since 1986. (Yea, I'm one of those old nurses) I have been an MDS coordinator in other facilities, and have managed a rehab unit b...

9. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   VeryberryRN replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   Isn't it a good thing that we have become older and wiser over the years! As much as some nurses would like to think that restraints are for the good of the resident, that hardly ever is the case. Tying people down is just not the answer.