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;)I am a new RNAC the facility is training me, the RNac I am replacing is moving into the DON position and the DON is moving into the Administrator position a lot of movement going on at my work place, it is a Long term care facility. Anyway since I don't have experience they are starting me at 23.00/hr then after 6 months 24.50/hr and then at the end of my first year to 26.00/hr. I am okay with that for now. But I am planning on getting so dam good at this job that I can jack that pay up in the next couple of years. I live in PA I am not sure what other RNAC's in PA are making

Hello, I am trying to read the MDS 2.0 User's Manual, it is soooo long:o But I really want to learn everything I can so I can do a good job. The person training me had me do the Quarterly's last week, and next week I will do some annuals, the manual makes more sense to me since I am doing the MDS's I tried to read it before hand and it didn't make any connection to anything so it did n't make much sense to me. I read a good tip on this site about condensing some of the careplan problems so they do not become to long, :idea:very good idea I am going to use that. If anyone has any other tips please share them. They hired me and really took a chance on me because I do not have MDS experience so I want to make sure they do not regret the decision to hire me. I really want to do well. Tina:lol2:

Great tip, I have been looking over the careplans and they are very long and not easy to read, at this time they are writing them all by hand, I have been given the go ahead to start using our computer program to do them once I take over, the otgoing RNAC is now training me, she is moving into the DON position. I started last week and we had UMR in the facility for inspection this week, I learned a lot from the inspectors they are very eager to teach, after it was all over we ended up with a 6% error rate, which they say is not bad.

I also just accepted a positon as an MDS Nurse, but at my Facility the title I have is RNAC ( RN Assessment Cooridinator) I have quite a few responsibilities; Careplans, MDS's, all of them the 14 day, Quarterly, Comprehensive and so on. Also recerts Case management and careplan meetings for families. I have an assistant she is a LPN and her title is LPNAC. the Facility we work in is a 115 bed LTC Home. I just went to my administrator last week ad ask for a second LPNAC. The amount of work is unbelievable, I just started the job last week I think I am going to like it, the MDS is similar to the Oasis forms I had to fill out when I was a Hospice Nurse. I have a lot to learn I came to this site looking for any and all tips I can find.