What will make your MDS job easier?

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Specializes in LTC, Magt, family practice, legal nsg.

What are things or processes or procedures, you would like to see offered, started to make your daily work easier as the MDS Coordinator?

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Specializes in Long term care.

All other disciplines entering their own data? And doing their own CAA's? And their own care plans? (but only if it was in a timely manner)

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Specializes in MDS/Office.

I would like CMS to "Come to their Senses" & get rid of the Discharge Assessments..... :rolleyes:

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Specializes in LTC, WCC, MDS Coordinator.

I'd just like to see all the documentation that I need to complete my MDS in the chart! Just give me what I need and I'd be happy!

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I found this new software to REALLY capture CNA documentation CORRECTLY!!! I wish we could get it. You guys gotta check it out and see what I mean. I guess it was written by a MDS Coordinator. How perfect! Someone who understands what we actually need. It is called S-cores.

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gbrentrn - I was unable to locate information on the S-cores, can you help me to find it? Thank you.

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Specializes in long term care - MDS.

i like the first two answers. since our company would never change software (they came up with their own and are always changing it) couldn't say about that. have used much, much better software.

our company micromanages. i can't open a transmitted and rejected assessment on my own. even my district supervisor can't. has to come directly from corporate. unreal expectations. we are to have our assessments completed and transmitted in 7 days. don't see it happening, ever. the need to send our completed assessments to an outside auditor for review and back again before transmission. that's not happening either. (other company i worked for had a review built into the software itself, as well as coordinating careplans)

two and half hour morning mtgs. set time limits for each speaker, don't just pick on the ones at the end because it is already over two hours. better communication when admissions and discharges come and go. and what their payor source is. these are just off the top of my head to start with. sps

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Specializes in Assessment coordinator.

Put basic information in the chart. Use software that tells you when you accidentally put in 2020 as the admission date. Use the auditing agency that actually gives you information about your MDS having a fatal error, instead of telling you that you have one when you don't, and ignoring the ones that you could easily correct if it was any good!

Have at least one nurse per day that assesses the skilled need of the patient.

Have a rehab department that communicates the end of therapy.

ETC.

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Specializes in Assessment coordinator.

Oh, and do your sections in a timely fashion.

And have software that doesn't lose everything every time it crashes. And have team members that realize I am not the one making the software crash. And understands that I can't magically retrieve your data entry if the computer has lost it.

ETC:yawn:

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Specializes in long term care - MDS.

Have our company allow us to use the suggested documentation sheets posted on the Myers and Stauffer website. If it's good enough for the company who audits us, who are we to disagree?

Maybe I'll bring it up after our audit next week, ya think?

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