froglady

If you want a life, don't take the MDS position, it interferes with your life in more ways than one. I was on the floor more than in the office and got behind because all the nurses would call in one time or the other and I ended up on the floor.

I was MDS coordinator for a year and a half. Unless you have all disciplines working together, it will take days. The team I worked with would change things on their own if they didn't like what I had put. THE DON didn't help matters, when I she didn't know the anything about the residents. Just so happens in January she had to take over the Medicare MDS position and then at the February of this year, according to our Medicare Consultant she lost the facity over 2,000 dollars. So as I say, unless all disciplines work together and forget about how much money the facility can make, get to know your residents' in order to do the MDS correctly. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!