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hi all, my facility also has "baylor" weeekends. we have nurses that work only those 2 twelve hour shifts, and still can't seem to make it to work when scheduled! i am on call every 5th week(including the weekend). have worked more weekends now, than when i rotated every other, as a floor nurse!! no extra pay, as salaried also. using the words of rodney dangerfield...we get no respect!

oriented and orientated makes me crazy, also. even the "higher-ups" use this term.....how about "i am so smarter"?

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capecod...i beg to differ. i am an lpn and my position is an mds coordinator. i also have my racct! granted where i live, i don't make your type of money, but still am able to do the job, even as an lpn. yes, i have an rn signing my mds's, but i know he has confidence in my work, never questions my work, and values me as his equal.

hi. i joined aanac several years ago. have taken the mds cert. program online at the aanac website, and completed it at my own pace... in no time. thorough and helpful.

chlori, i am also in ohio doing mds's for 130 bed facility. not full at this time, but close. i wear multiple hats, plus take call every 5th week. no extra pay (which i feel is not fair ) nothing for sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. also, if i do get called in whether during the week or weekend, i only get straight time, as it is considered working a different dept. mds co. is considered medical records, and working the floor if on call, is in nursing dept. my mds position is considered salaried, so no o.t. for extra hours just doing my job.

where i live, doing mds's for as long as i have, still don't make your kind of money. area pay rate study shows... i am over-worked and under paid. still, i love the job i do, am good at it, am able to capture all the same stuff as mentioned above. our case mix has gone up for the end of this quarter, also. all i can say is... re-educate your staff on the importance of adl scoring, part b therapy, restorative programs marked properly, document, document document!

how about..." could you be more pacific?"

hello. i have been doing mds's for 15 years. i love this job. i think i am very good at finding information, i have good attention to the details, am familiar with my residents and their families. the mds is the "money-maker" for our facility. we spend endless hours re-educating the floor staff with our computer system, so they can capture behaviors, bowel and bladder habits, adl's, eating trends, etc. there are many factors that influence the information in any mds. if a resident is getting therapy, if they are skilled, or on part b therapy, do they have restorative programs (minimum of 2 with part b's), did they have enough days and minutes in therapy, dr. visits and orders are another factor. find someone with an mds book, just to look through. familiarize yourself with some aspects of the process. i have around 60 residents i do mds's on every quarter. i stay very busy. i also meet with families during care conferences, write care plans, make the care conference schedule, it is in 6 week intervals. we make changes to the schedule as they occur, with new admissions, discharges, out to hospital and their return, etc. my schedule is usually a visual nightmare, but as long as i know what is going on with it, i am good. hope some of this helps, and doesn't scare you away from the job. like i read in another post, you either love it, or hate it. i am one of the lucky ones that loves my job!! good luck!