angelrose

I've worked in LTC for 13 years and have worked am and night shift as the charge nuse with no one to fall back on and have trained several nurses it sounds like your nurses need retrained on what they do before calling you. You might try telling them what to do ie get manual vitals and assesment ask for them then proceed coaching your nurse thru the process they be lazy or unsure but this way you know the pt ok and the nurses are doing the work and learning to think

I wish half the time I do my MDS work(20hrs) the floor 20hrs a weak and help the DON we don't have a ADON 40 pts plus 50 assisted living res that we help with. In western Kansas first year as mds 13yrs in facility wage didn't change with mds certified $16.00hr benifits are pretty good.

Thanks for the info I've only done mds for 6mo and still try to figure out the best way to figure out the info and what to concentrate on I'm certified but that doesn't help much