meghan61

meghan61

LTC QI MDS

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About meghan61

meghan61 has 28 years experience and specializes in LTC QI MDS.


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  1. What does your username mean?

    Meghan is the name I wish I had been given along with my birth year. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to all. Give the gift of Presence this year! Presents with a C and not a T. Spend some time with...
  2. MDS courses through AANAC

    I would take the RAC-3.0 through AANAC. I just finished my tests online last month. I took the course locally and it wasn't the best so if I had to do over again I would take the course online and...
  3. CAT & CAA's...help!!!

    The AANAC website has the CAAs in Word or PDF format. It looks like a checklist for the
  4. If it is what you want to do, apply for it. Keep in mind you will have to learn as you go and you will be required to put out a volume of accurate MDS. We have all been new at one time though. It...
  5. New RNAC

    I forgot the most important thing...SAVE ALL YOUR EMAILS!!! Since we now communticate via emails, save them, forever. Create folders by department and move them to the folders. You can print them as...
  6. New RNAC

    ]Write down everything that you do for each day of the week. ]It sounds crazy but after doing this for many years, I found that writing down my routine for each day helps me streamline the process...
  7. I work in a New York facility and have been completing MDS since the inception. It is a 300 bed RHCF.The woman that does the actual submission is a secretary who was trained by the former Medical...
  8. MDS Tools

    We are using a "Med A tracker form" and meeting twice per week to flex our ARDs. I don't know who created the Med a tracker form, though. I cannot attach it here , it is an .XLS file. Send me your...
  9. Turned in my Resignation

    To VeryberryRN- in 1986 NYS was still using RUGs II, or PRIs. I have been licensed in NY since 1982 and have worked in SNFs all my career. I started UR in 1988, we trialed the MDS in the fall of 1989...
  10. timing nebulizer treatments

    Thank you so much! You're the
  11. ICD-9 codes

    I use an online website. Just search for ICD-9 codes and several sites will pop
  12. case mix question

    We are in Upstate NY and just brought our Medicaid rate up to 0.92 from 0.86. I found that we were missing a significant number of Dr visits/order changes, so we corrected that during our last...
  13. Medicare chart requirements

    Does anyone know when NY will be required to convert to an electroni medical
  14. We have used Caretracker for the last 7 years. It is a great tool but we still have issues with incorrect coding levels especially for ADL's. As far as the reports that can be generated it is...
  15. timing nebulizer treatments

    I just attended a seminar and asked the AANAC MDS 3.0 Nurse guru how she would recommend meeting the criteria for capturing nebulizer treatments on the MDS. To meet the "trained nurse component" she...