lisaRN37

lisaRN37

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About lisaRN37

lisaRN37 has 13 years experience and specializes in GERIATRIC.


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  1. care plan invites

    I have both a mail out letter and an in house letter for those patients that do not have family to invite. If you'll give me your email I will send them to
  2. ARD for annual

    Are you doing a Sig Change every time a MCD patient has a 3 day hospital stay and comes back Medicare? If you are, why? You only do a sig change if the decline is permanent. If your doing it...
  3. ARD for annual

    You can't have an observation period for someone who was in the hospital and 3.0 no longer allows 14day look back to the hospital. The patient is being admitted to hospice which means a Sig Change is...
  4. I'm I in for a rude awakening?

    Run, run while you can unless you like to be tortured on a regular basis trying to figure out the new regs, filling out full assessments on people who have been d/c'd two days after admission or being...
  5. Physician Orders

    I count everything that is not a standing house order at admission. Might be wrong but no one has told me it is yet
  6. Having hard time coding Section G

    We have ADL sheets for the CNAs to fill out that match the MDS exactly. Our nurses use them to chart and we gather our information to fill out section G from
  7. MDS Coordinators Working From Home

    I have one that works pretty well for us. I also have a Med A schedule form if you'd like that as
  8. Turned in my Resignation

    Does it happen all of the time or just occasionally? If it's only once in a while then I would stay. They do the same thing to me but I like starting IVs because it keeps my skills
  9. ARD's, care plan dates & information

    In our office, the Medicare, Managed care and Long term care all do their own MDS schedule and then I type up a care plan schedule. Except for Medicare 5 days, we give our departments 7-10 days to...
  10. Is MSD nursing stressful?

    Oh, I'm gonna have to STRONGLY disagree with that statement. In MDS, you not only have to know the patients, you have to know the federal and state regulations, you have to know guidlines for how to...
  11. Is MSD nursing stressful?

    MDS is stressful, probably more so than floor nursing because you are responsible for making sure your assessments are in on time and transmitted on time, otherwise your facility does not get paid,...
  12. First batch submission for 3.0

    Any validation reports you've received are no good because there is a glitch in CMS processing program. You can keep transmitting to register your work but don't submit for a validation report on...
  13. Once a person has been skilled the entire 100 days for a feeding tube they cannot be skilled again unless the feeding tube has been removed and stayed out for more than 6 months, (not sure if that's...