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How does everyone get information on seminars, conferences and stuff regarding MDS and care planning? Obviously, we must not know the right people as we knew nothing about the teleconference about 3.0. We never get anything about Care plan updates o...

just because your facility is bad doesn't mean all of them are. i've worked in two ltc snfs and let me tell you....i've expierenced the bad and the good. as far as your patient load, forced break and getting in trouble for leaving holes in the ma...

Anytime they tell you another place is worse than the one your at remember this.....THEY ARE PROBABLY LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH

Run, Eldragon, Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Showing personality is one thing, (I wear seasonal tops and funny socks), but pants so tight they can't breath or move and tops that show stuff only a boyfriend would want to see is completely over the top. As for dying your hair, as long as it isn't...

AMEN TO THAT. What about the jeans so tight they must have been spray painted on. I think they got dropped on their heads as children.

Amen sister

I agree, ask for more CNAs but 1 nurse for 48 patients is standard.

WOW....I thought I had a hard job. I do the MDS, RAPs and Care plans for 153 residents...long term and managed care...I run the care plan meetings twice weekly, take call one week out of five, work the floor when needed, keep track of the call list, ...

I have a question about care planning certain medications. In my facility, we care plan Coumadin and Heparin because they are monitored with lab tests. Does anyone care plan other related medications, (i.e. Lovenox, ASA, Plavix, etc) and, if so, what...

If a patient was admitted to the hospital, had the required 3 day stay, went to a Skilled SNF for 26 days, went home for 20 days and then was admitted to a different Skilled SNF, is he qualified for Medicare coverage? For some reason my fellow coordi...

First...is resident currently in a facility under Medicare skilled? If so, Medicare should pay for enough supplies to change wafer daily because part A Medicare is all inclusive. We're not sure about the coverage in the community.

My question is this....We have a patient who has chronic pressure ulcers due to being under weight and bed bound. She recently went to the hospital for a pathological fracture of the femur and returned Medicare. She is not appropriate for Physical ...

I recently went to a seminar where the speaker told us the best way to get CNAs to code ADLS correctly was to use the actual G section of the MDS.

I agree. Our medicare coordinator gives the therapist the ARD date and then the therapist then gives her the minutes and lets her know if grace days are needed. By doing it this way, the assessments are done in a timely manner.

if things come up or occur after the rb2, if you've set it for the last possible date available between assessments, then you will not be able to include them. if you go past the 92 days between assessments to capture it you will be late with your a...

This is from my Medicare MDS coordinator who has read some replies relating to grace days. To those of you who wrote in about ALWAYS using grace day for PPS and never having a problem. Have you heard of RAC (Recovery Audit Contractors)? Florida, New ...

quarterly assessments can only have 89-92 days between them. for example...if you do a quarterly 1 in december with an ard of 12/18 and an rb2 of 12/21 your quarterly 2 must have an ard of no later than 3/18 and an rb2 of no later than 3/21. if yo...

i understand what this is saying but, as it says in the area i highlighted in blue, the grace days are used for the patient and when he or she is unable to participate or tolerate therapy to acheive a high rug. nowhere in the above do i see somethi...

If your resident did not go out to the hospital, you have to base your ARD date on the day of admission no matter what. If you go over 14 days from day of admission you are out of compliance and will be tagged by state.

That's the program we use. It should have a reports tab which will give you a MDS schedule choice to click on. Choose it and it will give you a shcedule for assessment due dates.

Replying to GerinurseTara (continuation from above reply. hit wrong reply button so had to improvise.) The ARD date is determined by date of admission or previous assessment. For example. New Admission: Observation= day 1-7 RB2= day 10 VB2= day 14 ...

The ARD date is determined by date of admission or previous assessment.

You poor thing. I hate taking call but atleast I'm not expected to do all that even if I'm not paid for it. I think I'd be looking for a new job.

While I agree that one should not let titles go to the head, I do believe that there is a big difference in what an MDS nurse does and what someone in who works the floor does. Having worked in both capacities, I understand the responsibilities of bo...