KingDom

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1. What do you wear?

   KingDom replied to catnip3's topic in MDS

   Business casual. Khaki pants or slacks, and a nice top. And clean, white comfortable sneakers, because you always have to be prepared to RUN!

2. Surveyor thinks I miscoded section E

   KingDom posted a topic in MDS

   We're having our annual survey. Surveyor is questioning me on why I coded a lady on anxiousness about health issues and insomnia (I coded less than daily on these 2 items). On the lady's first couple of days at our facility, she confided in the so...

3. Where do you keep your care plans?

   KingDom replied to BEDPAN76's topic in MDS

   We keep ours under a "care plan" tab in the resident's chart. Kind of a hassle when you need to update the care plan and someone else has the chart, but we've done that for 100 years and sometimes it's hard to change things! :icon_roll

4. tales from the "charts" side

   KingDom replied to achot chavi's topic in Geriatric

   We have an Indian doctor who dictates his assessment to be typed up later. Because of his heavy accent, words are often mispelled. On confused residents he often starts with "significant memory loss", but frequently gets transcribed as "significant...

5. tales from the "charts" side

   KingDom replied to achot chavi's topic in Geriatric

   We admitted a resident who was in relatively good health (for being in her late 90's). She was no longer safe to take care of herself at home due to weakness and debility. When we asked the physician for an admitting diagnosis when he came in for ro...