What you need to show them is that all disciplines have been assessing the resident for the appropriate observation period. Your ARD is the most important date, all of the assessment windows look back from there. So, you would need to do a head to toe skin assessment sometime in the 7 days prior to the ARD including determining if anything changed during those 7 days. The mood would be looking back 30 days from the ARD. If your disciplines give you worksheets or assessments, it needs to show that they were also assessing the same assessment period. Maybe placing the ARD on each of the assessment papers and showing which days you were looking at would help. My therapy department finds it much easier if I put the begining and end date of the observation window on the paper for them. That way they are sure which days we are assessing. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: RE: ASSESSMENTS
> I should ask what is the proper method for doing the MDS. My UMR team leader told me a few years ago that she wanted to see the dates of the assessments WITHIN the observation periods. Is this what most coordinators do? I have been doing this full time for 6 years at 2 different facilities, but each administrator wants it done differently. I just wanted to know if there really was an assigned menthod. > > /---------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -----------------------------------------------------------/
