In a message dated 2/8/2004 3:56:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
I do all the same things but have been able to avoid staffing the floor which I have never really oriented to. It's a hard job. Don't expect to really have it down pat for another year or so. Be patient with yourself.
Janice Martin, RN
MDS Coordinator
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