I am from massachusetts and our facility is required to do those plus an elopement assessment,A.I.M's/DISCUS and a safe smoking assessment( only if they are applicable) We just had our state survey (they were here for 5 days) We got picked up on not noticing sig changes, and few accuracy issues on coding MDS. They also diddnt care for the PRE PRINTED careplans, thought "they wernt individulaized enough". So, much work to be done by staff development and myself.
BILL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Assessments I just read an article in one of the PPS magazines written by Stephen [I forget his last name]who works for a company from Massachusetts but he speaks at national forums.He is well versed in the MDS.He spoke about approx. 100 homes around the country who don't do all these extra assessments but use the MDS as their tool.I thought it was so interesting that he gave me the name of one of these homes.My DON will get in touch with them I hope.I have long thought that we are doing too much paper work.At our facility we do all these admission,and quarterly assessments, that are really a duplication of the MDS.Are you all doing multiple assessments in addition to the MDS.WE DO ON ADMIT AN ORAL,FALL,SKIN,DEHYDRATION,SIDERAIL,PAIN,BOWEL AND BLADDER.I think we could write our assessment policies based on answers in the MDS and a few other factors. /---------------------------------------------------------- The Case Mix Discussion Group is a free service of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators "Committed to the Assessment Professional" Be sure to visit the AANAC website. Accurate answers to your questions posted to NAC News and FAQs. For more info visit us at http://www.aanac.org -----------------------------------------------------------/ /---------------------------------------------------------- The Case Mix Discussion Group is a free service of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators "Committed to the Assessment Professional" Be sure to visit the AANAC website. Accurate answers to your questions posted to NAC News and FAQs. For more info visit us at http://www.aanac.org -----------------------------------------------------------/
