kmiles

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1. ASHD vs CAD

   kmiles posted a topic in MDS

   Can Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) be coded by checking the Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease (ASHD) in section I? What is the difference?

2. IV Medication/Fluids Post OP

   kmiles posted a topic in MDS

   Good Morning All! The title should have read "IV Medication/Fluids Post OP". The RAI reads "Do not code services that were provided solely in conjuction with a surgical or diagnostic procedure and the immedicate post-operative or post-procedure reco...

3. Job Interview

   kmiles replied to rukiddingme's topic in MDS

   Wow, sure makes me think. My job is as you described your last one: only me for 109 beds, do everything and spend 40+ hours doing it; except that I am paid hourly and get overtime. I am burned out, and I have only been doing MDS for 5 months! Jus...

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

   kmiles replied to kmiles's topic in MDS

   Thanks for the encouragement. I have been the MDS Coordinator for a 109 bed facility for only four months now. I am not sure that this is my cup-o-tea, even though the management has been pleased with my RUG scores and care plans. It feels like I...

5. What do you wear?

   kmiles replied to catnip3's topic in MDS

   I wear scrubs because they are comfortable, easy to pick out in the morning, and because I often step in and assist the CNAs when I see help is needed. I am the only MDS coordinator in a 109 bed facility, which is bad because I am always trying to c...

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

   kmiles posted a topic in MDS

   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 Coordina...