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  1. Why are most nurses hoarders?

    DebRN, I was thinking 5-7 also for incident reports as well. I think they are treated more like a part of the record, even though not filed there. More so than our QA type documents.
  2. siderail regulation in nursing home

    We have a kit that mesures side rail safety for entrapment. It has several components, and found that only 1 of my side rails was "safe". The worst side rails I found were ones being used with an air mattress. I couldn't get any airmattresses to pas...
  3. Need a plan

    I'm afraid in even the most ideal of circumstances you may still feel pulled and scattered! It's the nature of LTC management! What I've done recently for a new ADON I hired is assign each day a focus. Put it on a calendar. If it's not a focus day fo...
  4. MED A DOCUMENTATION

    I work for one of the largest LTC providersin the nation, so we actually have a specific skilled note form. However, I think it comes from Briggs. You could check it out. It has a portion that is checking boxes, which saves your butt on reinbursement...
  5. Why are most nurses hoarders?

    Ive never been asked to produce the individual pharmacy recommendation letters, they usually want the entire consult report. The consolidated version which includes all the data that won't be placed on the chart. Ie med pass validation, or med time c...
  6. MED A DOCUMENTATION

    Explain to the how much money is lost bc they didn't do their job. Usually upward of 10k a month on a partA. Get real numbers, have your MDS nurse explain what happens without the documentation. Usually people will do tasks when they understand the r...
  7. DON passing trays in dining room

    Nursing is YOUR department, and your MDS nurse and ADON are yours to manage. I agree you need to be in the dining room, but not IN PLACE OF your charge nurses. You should have a nurse there whether you are there or not, and on the days you are there ...
  8. Why are most nurses hoarders?

    Well, the only thoughts I have are, every time I have surveyors in my building they ask for pharmacy reports for the past 6 months, so I do save those. And the incident reports, we also have to think of litigation, which usually doesn't occur within ...