Re: job responsibilities

[Corey Ali]

What you're speaking of is pretty common up here in the North & Midwest.  I'm in Michigan.  I'm in a 340 bed facilty with 3 MDS co-ordinators.  We all do our own schedules, RAP's & care plans.  I think, personally, the floor nurses should be doing care plans, but most management heads think that the floor staff is incapable of thought.  We do the care plan meetings with family and other staff.  We have to do the data entry for the other departments, and one lady (social worker) wouldn't type her own RAP's; she wrote them and then gave them to me to type in for her.  I stopped being a secretary, and she left.  We (each of the 3 MDS) do our own submissions, and we are also responsible for seeing that the staff follow the care plans.  We are responsible for doing "rounds" at least daily on our floor, checking on shaves, diaper changes, proper dress & nail care, etc.  We are all responsible to sit in on the QA meetings, the wound & skin meetings, and dept. head meetings.  We do some inservice, parlticularly to the licensed staff regarding charting, terminology and what needs to be noted for the particular Medicare skill needs.  ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 3:55 PM Subject: Re: job responsibilities I just found this board recently, and am new to my job since November,  but it seems that my routine is not the norm(I hope) as I seem to have an enormous number of job duties. They include:  scheduling for pps/obra, (and longterm admissions),  mds, raps, and careplan completion, locking/transmitting to the state, attending care plan meetings (which some days take alot of the day), following up with floor nurses on concerns;  I'm still very much in learning mode, still learning the best way to capture rug levels among other things.  The Social Worker helps with the longterm resident obra scheduling;  The Dietary dept., Activities dept., Social Worker and I are responsble for our own data entry including the mds, raps, and care planning,  and the 4 of us are the care plan team that meets with family.  I'm also responsible for getting all the signatures in the right places at the right times etcetcetc as well as printing & editing all the paperwork.  oh, I also give the rehab dept a daily patient by patient list of all Part A residents receiving skilled services.  a few other things also,  including  being on the U/R committee, the Risk Management committee,  (just time consuming and irriatating when I have so much other work)  oncall for one week a month as well.  I'm sure I'm forgetting some things right now.   I work in a 120 bed SNF in Florida and feel slightly less overwhelmed than I did since finding this tremendous resource in aanac, it has been a lifesaver!  (Did I mention that this has been a self-training position as the DON who hired me was dismissed one week later, I had one week of on the job training with the (disgruntled) previous coordinator.   But - I am enjoying the challege so far, have alot of autonomy and the backing of the new DON which helps alot.   thanks for this question, very interesting. paula   --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.574 / Virus Database: 364 - Release Date: 1/29/2004