nla57

I am a MDS Coordinator in Florida and I am in the process of becoming certified through NRAI.net. I costs about 400.00 dollars and is very informative. The first half of the course is the Basic Comprehensive and the second half is Advanced Certification for PPS. I got both even though I just do the MDS and hopefully the PPS certification will help me in the future. Good luck.

You have to be the "leader" of the group and understanding and patient with their questions and requests..yet you have to firm and positive about keeping in timeframes and staying compliant. Good luck.

I'm an LPN and have been a nurse for 15 years and a MDS Coordinator for four years. I like my job and the challenges that it brings. I work as the MDS Coordinator and do everything in the building but PPS which gives me 100+ patients at any given time. Our PPS runs around 18-25. The transition to MDS 3.0 just happened to coincide with our transition to our new computer system.....UGGH....to say the least. The PPS Coordinator and I have been working closely with our team to make the transitions as smooth as possible. Not much help from the Corporate office......our team has been coming to us for all their questions and we are stronger for it. None of our transmissions have had validation yet....but we continue to submit...lots of problems with the CMS website. Hopefully MDS 3.0 will be a nightmare of past in a couple of months. Hang in there.

Our facility is using Sigmacare which is fairly user friendly. I think just the fact that we transitioned into MDS 3.0 and Sigmacare at almost the same time has just about "fried" the PPS Coordinator and my MDS brains!! We are putting in lots of overtime hours (I'm salary). We have found ourselves both about ready to throw in the towel on numerous occasions...we are trying to hang in there and hope that 3.0 will be just an awful memory in a few months.