I have been an RN for over 13 years and applied to work at a rehab hospital. I asked what the nurse to pt ratio is on days and was told on the avg 7-8 pts, could be as high as 10-11. Is that normal...
I do for most part, there are times though the visit is cut short and I want to be able to remember if I document some at home and figured a cheat sheet for those things would be of great help....
Ive searched all over for a cheat sheet or checklist to go from patients home to my home to use on laptop to complete documentation at home. New home care admission nurse. Cant find any please
First HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE! I just started doing the MDS/PPS for medicare residents at our facility which just became medicare certified and still am not sure on 1 thing (1 of alot!) but my...
I am a brand new medicare and medicare MDS nurse, I will be doing all the assessments (among) a thousand other things for the MED A residents. We have another nurse who does the MDS for the other...
I work in LTC and we have just received out Medicare certification, so my question is if one of our current residents go to the hosp, and come back and meedt the qualifications for Med A, would they...
If a resident had a 3 day qualifying stay at an acute hosp but then sent over to the psych floor, has a dx of dementia with behaviors and was getting IV sedatives before going to psych and comes back...
:confused:If you have a resident that is on Medicare with a RUGS SE2 has a stage 3 ulcer, O2 and a few other things that qualify him for that Rug group and 35 days after admission he is put on Hospice...
Thanks to everyone! I haven't really started yet I am still doing wound care at this time. I did get my MDS certification but we are still waiting for our medicare approval. I am still reading and...
Hi, Does anyone have ideas or forms you already use to do the collection part (pre MDS) that you use for collecting the information you need to do your MDS? I am just starting and any forms anyone...