You will do fine. In 1995, I graduated with my BSN, passed my boards, and went to work in a LTC facility. This was also my first healthcare job so I had no previous experience. I worked a combination...
Skills charting is charting towards what Medicare patients have been admitted to the facility for such as CHF, hip fracture, ... whatever the skilled nursing is for. Charting should document daily...
I must love doing MDS's since I did them for a few years, went to doing dialysis for 5 years, went back to LTC for a couple years, and now have been doing MDS's for about 10 months again. It is...
Just passed my last AANAC test last night and can' wait to get my certificate. My company paid for the 3 day course, too, and I took the tests online. I think this was well worth their money. It's...
Therapy is looking at the resident at his best for documentation. MDSs are coding them at their worst. If a resident is coded during the day as a 2/2 but on nights they are a 3/2 for 4 days during the...
I don't know about Illinois, but in Kansas, we do not have Section F on our quarterly assessments. But when I'm doing the interviews, I do Section F for all MDSs only because it lets me keep up with...
But you are still getting information only as good as the CNA. Ours do ADL sheets daily but it seems that the first person to code anything sets the stage. Everyone else just seems to copy what was...
Here is a good link for wounds: http://www.woundconsultant.com/files/Wound_Documentation_Tips_6.07.pdf This is from Wound Care Education Institute - which has a great Wound Care Certification
I fill out the AIMS, Braden, elopement, fall risk, pain, and side rails for every quarterly and add a 3 day bowel and bladder for annuals. The nurses doing the admits do all these and I use that info...
Our facility recently wrote a policy addressing it. It's one thing to talk with friends on the phone. It's another to spread your feelings worldwide. There is always that old saying "Be sure to make...
Just started as MDS Coordinator again a couple weeks ago after being out of it for about 8 years. I remember the changeover to MDS 2.0 from the "Blue Bible". Guess I'll just "go with the flow" and...
kdhnursern replied to jjnmrsmom's topic in Geriatric, LTC
Started in LTC, tried Occupational Health 3 years, decided to go back to LTC because I missed the real nursing I had done there. Then I worked as a dialysis nurse for 5 years and have gone back...