KingDom64

KingDom64 has 20 years experience and specializes in long term care.

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1. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

   KingDom64 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   Had a nursing instructer (on the subject of oral health) refer to gums, procouncing it like "gooms". Never heard it pronounced like that before...

2. Describe your 10/10 pain. Piggybacking off of recent pain discussions.

   KingDom64 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a nursing home--many years ago, had a lady (probably in her 60s) who constantly sought narcotic pain relief. Her all-over pain was always calmly described by her as a "10". One time the CMA was in her room and she requested a PRN pain pil...

3. Cops and Nurses

   KingDom64 replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

   Last year I got a ticket from a park ranger at a lake for tinted windows. I had no idea the windows were too dark; totally unfair! I bought the car that way and the tint was only 9% above the legal limit. The next business day, went to the dealers...

4. First batch submission for 3.0

   KingDom64 replied to Ruas61's topic in MDS

   I've submitted and gotten validation reports back. One lady's MDS had a fatal error; it was because the date she was first admitted to the facility was entered in the MM/DD/YYYY format, and the validation report said it should've been entered in the...

5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   KingDom64 replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   I've worked in a nursing home for years and I've seen all kinds of demented little old people do the craziest stuff: A confused little old man opened up the charting station door, takes out a staff member's soda can, spits a big loogey in it, replace...

6. MDS 3.0 RUGIII to RUGIV Medicare PPS Transition

   KingDom64 replied to Talino's topic in MDS

   These spreadsheets with the 3 options......I'm thinking option 1 is the best?? What is everyone else going with? I've had very little training on this whole thing and I'm the only MDs coordinator with barely any time to look anything over! AARgh!

7. case load

   KingDom64 replied to 1lanarn's topic in MDS

   I'm the one and only MDS person at my building and our census is low (about 80 at the moment) and we run about 8-10 skilled Medicare at any given time. Sometimes I feel like I'm overwhelmed!