RE: Skill or not

[Brenda Chance]

See, you can if you set your ARD right.  The lookback period for IV meds  is 14 days so if you set the 14 day ARD right at times you can capture iv meds received in the hospital.  Example, if a resident received IV med on 1/11/04, was admitted to your facility on 1/13/04.  You can set your 14 day ARD for day 11 (1/23/04) or day 12 (1/24/04) and still capture the IV meds.    Brenda W. Chance, RN, RAC-C MDS Coordinator     CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 7:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Skill or not   In a message dated 1/16/2004 11:25:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can't skill on an IV alone for more than the first 14 days. Janice Martin, RN MDS Coordinator The resident was not in our facility on 01/11/04 therefore I cannot do a OMRA since therapy was never started in our facility.  She was admitted on 01/13/04 and was no therapy for 3 weeks.  My question being can I skill her for those 3 weeks based on her getting this IV on 01/11/04? Lisa       In a message dated 1/16/2004 6:48:02 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the resident just had an IV on 1-11,I would do an omra and keep on med A alittle while.Would look at it weekly and would do a sig change when rehab can come back.I feel a sig change is necessary when weightbearing increases as there usually is an improvement in amb and toileting.