golflinda2214

this is an outstanding tribute to a special person. How lucky for this soldier and his family to have had you as his nurse.

you must do a 5 day pps assessment on or before day 8, and you may also make that your adm.a ssessment for obra. then you do a 14 day assessment. no, you may not push the first assessment out to day 10. go to your rai manual for complete instructio...

Call the doc who wrote the order. These MD's are taking too many liberties wth acronyms.

I have an endorsement to my homeowner's policy through State Farm

another case of "nurses eating their young" When will it ever stop?

can someone point me in the right direction for learning dialysis? I have always had an interest in renal but just never was in the right place at the right time...but I am now. thank you!

the first one, IF you are guaranteed to be finished at theend of 12 hrs. In any setting, there is the chance that you have a crisis or something that keeps you late. Think about safety on that long drive home after a very long shift.

I put out MDS 3.0 hardcopies to all the "neighborhoods" and also sent along a "suggestion" list of things to chart to for the MDS (pick and choose) for each shift to be charting during the reference period. All staff has access to the hardcopy and a...

Your facility should have the means to be paying for your membership to AANAC AND sending you through the certification program. It has paid for itself over and over and the information they provide to keep up with the CMS revisions, etc. has been ...

In this position, you know better than anyone when you have the ability to take time off and not interrupt the MDS schedule. I have a lot of autonomy, able to take off some weekdays in exchange for w/e when I know I need to do interviews, etc or when...

it is not on a place that I can share it. If you know anything aobut Excel, you simply format the sheet with columns for your dates. If you do not know Excel, your business office people could help you set up the sheet.

if it were me, I would find me a Medicare Bootcamp and insist on being sent. You can Google that and find the schedules of some trainers.

I would say set up a spreadsheet on Excel that lists the ARDs, when the interviews are needed, assessments to be done, submission due date, date to have re-certs done, etc. I am a visual person, I like to see things at a glance and this really is he...

I do, in Illinois and in Wisconsin. Some states all you do is write to the Dept. of Licensing and send in the money. Hang on to you old state though. You can go "inactive" while you decide where to put down roots.

Did you get a decent orientation? Were you followed on the floor (before expected to be alone) by a preceptor or someone who should have explained to you where the meds were kept? And, truly, have you never suctioned a patient or just hadn't suctio...

Sorry, no. the questions MUST be asked verbatim. Not what I would want but somebody smarter than I am oredered this.

I was broken-hearted just a few days ago while interviewing a dementia resident for the BIMS. She is not so far along in dementia so she KNOWS that she is losing cogntion and ended up crying because she could not answer "sock,blue, bed" after also n...

If you believe this happened in the nursing home before his ambulance ride, I would ocntact the ombundsman for assistance if you are getting nowhere iwth the admistration in obtaining records. Yes, do call the State public helath and they will inves...

I feel you're not yet ready for that baby. Your line about you and your partner would be "fine financially for a few months" really has me worried. In this economy, and being a new grad, jobs are difficult to find. A few months of financial stabili...

In our home, we flag the spine of the chart with a sticker that gives the dates of the 7 day look-back period. Staff then knows that they must give better attention to charting such things as pain, ADL's, cognition, etc. and we also have the rehab s...

yes, we are also told section F must be on all MDS, even quarterlies, for Illinois. Why that is, no one seems to know!

Has anyone received a new "patch" or updated software that actually lets their 3.0 run faster, and that also fixed major software problems? We are supposed to be getting something this week from our vendor, I won't mention the name, and I'm hopeful ...

I agree that this is a short span in which to have all information gathered. CMS had a reason to give you 14 days to complete the MDS from the ARD, and another week to care plan. I believe you should use it to your advantage.

It doesn't trigger because with a BIMS so low, they assume she is not rehab/restorative potential.

OMG! Where is the survey process in giving deficiencies for poor upkeep of the physical building? there should be some fines given at the very least and these places put into code. Nursing Staff is there to care for the person, not to fix the buil...