I am in a 180 bed facility. 90 sub acute and 90 LTC. We have
1 LPN for the LTC and 3 RNs for the Sub Acute. I am the "coordinator"
for the whole MDS team (us plus 5 other departments). When we get in a
tight spot the risk manager does some assessments as does the Education
RN. We have on average 5 - 10 admissions to the sub acute side every
day. It's busy, but we all work together. We are now in the
process of training the CNAs to document the ADLs on all three shifts instead
of the nurses and we are finally going to start using the MPAF this
month. Hopefully both will be a timesaver. Now if we can just get
billing to understand the midnight rule....and that not everyone admitted in a
month must be completed and submitted by the 7th of the next month.
Suzanne
"Holly Sox, RN, RAC-C"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Dawn,
And welcome to cmdg. Your email addy is new
to me.
This was discussed earlier this week, and I think
the answers ranged from about 1 RNAC/40 residents (Dreamland, in my
opinion. I wanna move there) to 1/100+. I have been the only
RNAC for 118 beds, dually certified with about 15-20 Medicare on
average. Also do all the preadmission screenings, coordinate admission
process. We have 2 separate buildings, so it is quite a
challenge.
I have an assistant who started Monday. She will be
handling the 21-bed satellite SNF unit in our CCRC down the
street.
Again, welcome to the group. It's a wonderful
source of info and support.
