pixie120

pixie120

Member

  • Content

    256

  • Visitors

    5,271

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    0

All Content by pixie120

  1. RN aphabet letters for MDS completion

    pixie120 posted a topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Can someone give me the quick answer on this question? Our RN MDS nurses do entire MDS except for SW, Activites sections, RN does the cognition/mini-mental portion of the SW section, RN...

  2. How many COT's?

    pixie120 posted a topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Ok, here is my question. please check my math here" In looking at all of this, for PPS/Med A, potentially there are ONLY 4 COT's that could possibly trigger? In a perfect world: 5 day: if a COT...

  3. Careplans and Quarterlies

    pixie120 replied to txdon's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    I understand the floor nurses are busy, when they get a new dx/treatment, all they have to do is turn to the careplan, handwrite somewhere a new C/P: UTI goal: Resolve UTI Interventions: ABO...

  4. RN aphabet letters for MDS completion

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Thanks for the information. We review all MDS data, as an IDT, every morning and do the quaterly/comprehensive assessments (Braden, AIM etc) and write an IDT note per each MDS due. We double checked,...

  5. RN aphabet letters for MDS completion

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    FYI, in this building we have 3 RN MDS/RCM's, is probably why they do the "extra" work that some don't? Max patients per MDS/RCM is 20, Medicare mixed thru out all

  6. RN aphabet letters for MDS completion

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Thanks for the information. Perhaps I asked the question wrong. In our building the SW does D,E, Q Activities does F and RN/MDS does the rest....so (including CAA's) so my question is this: RN signs...

  7. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I am wondering if any other DNS/DON's have run across this before. SO....I have MDS experience, a lot, very skilled at it actually. It helped me get the DON position. In a new facility, talking the...

  8. How many COT's?

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Ok,good to know. Next question, the PPS folks that were "grandfathered in", they do NOT have to be looked at continously every seven days? (The folks that admitted and had their 5 day, 14 day...

  9. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Umm...exactly. and when other's won't participate, give that information, it becomes quite a quandry doesn't it? Another great thing we just had implemented, MDS nurses now have direct access to the...

  10. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Appreciate your post, somehow I didn't see it until today.You are so very right, I can't hide what I know....sad isn't it? I am interviewing for several jobs in the area in companies that seem to have...

  11. What kind of staffing do you have?

    pixie120 replied to TiredRN-momto4's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Would you mind if I asked what your PPD is? Must be about 3 or a little under/over? (For

  12. Q.I.S.

    pixie120 replied to Nascar nurse's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Yes, in a wierd way, it does seem much more detached, and as they don't do a verbal exit everyday, sometimes you can actually take a breath here and there. Days 1-3 are not too bad, it's when they go...

  13. How many COT's?

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    SO it would go like this: day one, then 5 day, 14 day, 21 day possible COT, day 28 (30 day would fit here), day 35 possible COT, day 42 possible COT.....thru day 100. I though I read that a COT has...

  14. Q.I.S.

    pixie120 replied to Nascar nurse's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Best words of advice I ever got were 1. Never let them see you sweat 2. Tell the truth 3 Continue the best practice care that you always give, as if it were just another

  15. MDS RN to resident ratio?

    pixie120 replied to crazyforthis's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Kudos for saying that last line, the other disciplines are kinda irritated with nursing, in our building, sort of an us vs them, "just because nursing has to do another assessment....". I think they...

  16. I've been gone for a year-obsolete?

    pixie120 replied to crissrn27's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Lots of updates on the CMS sites, and this is a great resource. Good luck (I think your MDS 2.0 experience serves you well, but you gotta frame it up better that you have been studying, on your own,...

  17. med error or flawed entry

    pixie120 replied to supervisorhatchet's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    WHen I worked Assisted Living, the pharmacy did our MAR's, and they were always written as per community prescription, ie Tylenol 2 325 mg tabs twice daily as needed. LTC: pharmacy will begin doing...

  18. Transition to LTC nursing

    pixie120 replied to CassB's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Every LTC facility that I have worked in has had many similiarities to Psych, so much of what we get is very similiar. Dementia with Behavioral Disturbances is all the psych issues rolled into one and...

  19. Careplans and Quarterlies

    pixie120 replied to txdon's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    The MDS nurses are looking for this: "Resident alert to self, STM. Inc B/B. Intact skin. Surgical incision healed. 2 person assist to shower chair. On person assist to bathroom. Usually continent...

  20. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Many,many people in LTC/SNF don't understand the MDS. Not newbies, but new to RN management, new team being formed, lots of reason's why. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill to figure out the MDS,...

  21. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Thanks very much, great advice. You are so right, I did document, and I asked for minutes in every meeting as did the MDS nurses,and then we asked,and asked. Higher ups got it all straightened out,and...

  22. Morning PPD/Medicare meeting

    pixie120 posted a topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Please give advice on how to improve this meeting, difficult therapy manager, does NOT comprehend the MDS nurse needs minutes, timely, in written form, not...later,...I think he/she had this many...

  23. Morning PPD/Medicare meeting

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Thanks everyone, great advice. Much

  24. RN aphabet letters for MDS completion

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    I have another MDS question, do you print out your MDS? We printed entire MDS and kept the 15 mos parts at the nursing stations. Other building prints out nothing,here a littel confusing, printing...

  25. RN aphabet letters for MDS completion

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Out of curiousity, did nursing do the first half of F? I have helped with some of the MDS, and I was able to do all but D,E, and F, I entered the minutes for therapy, and did A (most auto populates)...