MDS Coordinator salaries

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I know I have asked this before, but people change so fast on here I thought I would see what the response was like in 2006.

So, if you don't mind

1. How much to you make as MDS Co (or if you're a DON/ADON - how much is your MDS person paid). I make $21/Hr and thinking that is not enough!

2. What part of the country do you live in. I live in Indiana.

3. How much experience do you have w/ MDS. I have 6+ years.

Thank You

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
As an RN in any position in any state, if you are making less than 26.00 per hour as a new grad or less than 28.00 with experience, you are being played. There is a nursing shortage and you need to act like it.
Half of all the U.S. states have average RN wages less than $26.00 per hour with experience.
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Specializes in Registered Nurse.

I realize this is an OLD question here....LOL....but answering anyway....I think the $$$ depends on what part of the country and the specific facility. All RN's make approx. the same at my facility....and it's usually a lot more than $21/hr in NY.

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I live in Missouri. our MDS coordinator is an LPN. makes the same as a staff nurse, about $15.00 HR.

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I am an LPN with 25+ years experience. I have worked in hosp, home health and last 5 years in LTC (3 as a charge nurse and 2 as patient care coord). I recently took a position as MDS on a temp basis and am making $20/hr. I love the hours and the benefits are not too bad.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Hi,

Just started this week as MDS Coordinator (newbie). Make $25.00/hr. Live in West Texas. Found a nice facility willing to train me at a salary I was earning at a previous facility as a Floor Charge Nurse. Looking forward to the change of pace.

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I work in Maryland and I had worked as an LPN MDS Coordinator making $27 an hour, I graduated with my RN in June and got a raise to $32 an hour for the same job, just a different title.

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We I work we have been having trouble with nursing staff, not enough! We have calls offs almost everyday, and just the other day there were only 2 nurses in the facility for 105 residents. There should have been 5, but we had call offs, and could not get coverage. We have 2 MDS nurses who never work the floor when there is a shortage, I find this highly unfair..they work all daylight, 40 hours a week. All the other nurses are working overtime. Shouldn't they have to work the floor if were short, after all they are nurses too.

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Specializes in Long term care.

If there was that big of need, then definately everyone available should have chipped in or been assigned to work the floor. I have been in LTC for 10 years from being a CNA, LPN, and almost an RN. I have seen alot with holding different positions under these titles. Kind of like when I was a CNA my thoughts were "them nurses never do anything alot of the day but pass medicine and chart" then as a nurse I realized that nurses are extremely busy and passing meds and charting could very well take up 7 hrs of your day, and that it wasn't due to just laziness, etc. Then as an LPN on the floor, I would say things like them management people, (and MDS nurses) never ever come out of their office and they just all have it made, etc. but now as an MDS nurse, I see just how much manaement nurses go through, expecially DONs! Kind of off the topic, but I think that everyone has a specific job to do, and the comment of MDS nurses work 40 hrs all daylight, well that is what comes with the job territory, and if other people don't like it, then they too can find a different position. Anyways, in my facility we report to the Administrator, and our job is strictly financial, and we were just recently taken off of the on call schedule for that reason to concentrate solely on reimbursement, and if you are constantly working the floor, you can't do a good job with that. Where I work, the unit managers are on call when needed, but at any rate if times are hard, I have no problem chipping in.

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
If there was that big of need, then definately everyone available should have chipped in or been assigned to work the floor. I have been in LTC for 10 years from being a CNA, LPN, and almost an RN. I have seen alot with holding different positions under these titles. Kind of like when I was a CNA my thoughts were "them nurses never do anything alot of the day but pass medicine and chart" then as a nurse I realized that nurses are extremely busy and passing meds and charting could very well take up 7 hrs of your day, and that it wasn't due to just laziness, etc. Then as an LPN on the floor, I would say things like them management people, (and MDS nurses) never ever come out of their office and they just all have it made, etc. but now as an MDS nurse, I see just how much manaement nurses go through, expecially DONs! Kind of off the topic, but I think that everyone has a specific job to do, and the comment of MDS nurses work 40 hrs all daylight, well that is what comes with the job territory, and if other people don't like it, then they too can find a different position. Anyways, in my facility we report to the Administrator, and our job is strictly financial, and we were just recently taken off of the on call schedule for that reason to concentrate solely on reimbursement, and if you are constantly working the floor, you can't do a good job with that. Where I work, the unit managers are on call when needed, but at any rate if times are hard, I have no problem chipping in.

Very true! You have to travel a mile in someone else's shoes, I think the saying goes. :)

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I live in Indiana also- I make 20.22 an hour as an MDS Coordinator.

It is a big responsibility.

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Two yrs. ago I when I worked as an MDS corrd. I made $55,000 a year. This also including taking turns being on call every 3 or 4th weekend and working the floor when someone called in sick. I was responsible for completing the MDS for 90 skilled care pts. and running two careplan meetings/week. I live in central VA.

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Specializes in Gerontology, Med surg, Home Health.
Two yrs. ago I when I worked as an MDS corrd. I made $55,000 a year. This also including taking turns being on call every 3 or 4th weekend and working the floor when someone called in sick. I was responsible for completing the MDS for 90 skilled care pts. and running two careplan meetings/week. I live in central VA.

You had 90 skilled (as in Med A) residents and only one MDS person??? I've never heard of such a thing. That's more than 3 times the number of skilled patients any MDS person does around here.

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