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Sure hope they have an MDS person familiar with 3.0 when and if they make changes !

I just had a patient return from the hospital and did an entry and then she went back out 2 days later. My software would not let me do a short stay and discharge but I was able to combine a 5 day and discharge. What I can't understand is if your all...

I so agree with you ! I recently went to a seminar on 3.0 given by ACHA and most of the questions asked could not be answered by the speakers. So, my question is how can they give a cite in MDS 3.0 when they don't even know how it's done??? Go figur...

So very sad when residents are mad at their families for "putting them in a nursing home" and they pick out one person to blame. Unfortunately it is usually the nicest or prettiest or whatever positive thing they may see. Your lucky you employer has ...

My facility has given us enough help but the pay is way below what MDS coords are paid. I have been with same company as director of the dept for 11 years and my friend just started a new part time MDS job making exactly what Imake. Very disheartenin...

That is crazy, I bet if you give notice things will change. Hope they are paying you guys big bucks ! Impossible to keep that pace and remain in compliance with regs. Good luck !

Boy, talk about a way to get "cites" ! You poor thing ! If it wasn't broken, why fix it. No way would I work under those conditions. It's not fair to the patient nor the staff. I am sure with your experience you will be able to find another job. In m...

So true, with the managed care that leave before the 14 th day, you are actually doing a whole assessement with this new crazy, ridiculous discharge assessment. We have had as many as 10 discharges on a weekend and with the Med A your doing two asses...

We are a 173 bed facility and we have 3 full time RNs and 1 part time. We have part A, B managed care and medicaid. I do all the PPS with a low of about 12 up to a high of about 27. One full timer does all the medicaid and the other does the managed ...

If there is , Please let me know because I know my whole department will participate. There are 4 of us !

We copied the actual pages from the MDS for each department and they use it as part of their admission assessment . It is kept in the resident's chart and we put that info into our computer by the 10th day so that gives us time to get everything done...

The whole 3.0 thing is crazy ! The full assessment is fine but all the rest like the discharges is a waste of time. The surveyors better not pick apart what all of us are trying to keep up with because I would challenge them to try it for one day. I ...

I am an MDS Coordinator and I am responsible for all coding of every admission. I recently got the ICD 9 for 2011 and there are some changes that go along with 3.0. It is not as easy as one thinks as some Docs continually give "symptom diagnosis" whi...

My team is also having all sorts of problems with not only Rugs but dates etc. I think ours is a program related problem Good luck , know how you feel!

I don't know anyone that doesn't hate 3.0. I pray everyday that someone with really good insight will realize how ridiculous this extra paperwork is. The word nurse has been taken out of nursing and replaced with data entry. I have been doing MDS si...

Wow, That seems almost impossible! We our a 173 bed facility and we have 3 full time RN's and 1 part timer and we are just holding our own. You poor thing, I hope they are paying you a lot of money for all that work. Ask for help, you surely do nee...

You really should get some acute care experience before you jump into LTC. I have been a nurse for over 40 years and tried my hand in all areas. It paid off later on when I had small children and wanted to do agency work so I could pick my hours. E...

Trust me I have been doing this since day one(when things were much easier and more patient focused instead of paper focused) There will be plenty of jobs soon . The head hunters call all the time. Since 3.0 I have had 2 calls from 2 other facilities...

I guess I am one of the lucky ones, my team consists of 3 full time and 1 part time, all RN's. We all have very different personalities but when it comes to getting the job done it's a total team effort. As far as the other departments go, we made co...

The way I understand it is if the resident is admitted to the hospital not an observation you must do a reentry and a 5 day. If it is just an observation then no, you would just continue on.

I am an old timer, Take it from me, do some acute care nursing (ie: med/surg etc) before you decide on your field. If you don't get some hospital experience it may be hard for you to further your career. I tried everything and now in my near retireme...

The discharge MDS is the CRAZIEST thing anyone could have ever thought of . If the resident goes home, they have obviously met their goals. If the go to the hospital and come back you have do another return assessment and a 5 day if it is a MED A. If...

A group of us went to the 3.0 training and were informed that we should forget using grace days under 3.0. We understand the start of therapy but our new rehab director is using a grace for every new admission to cover Sundays when ther is no therapy...

This whole MDS thing has gone way to far. I think a full assessment upon admission is a good tool but does anyone really believe that the floor nurses have time to read or even will read all that repetative info?? The surveyors aren't even going to h...