Re: NAC hours

[Sgibbsrn]

Hi All,      Our facility has 200 beds, dual certified.  We have 37 Medicare skilled at present.  I have one other RN full time and one LPN full time for now.  The other RN is a recent hire and when she is up to full speed our LPN will go back to half time again.  Need less to say, this is the most Medicare skilled we have ever had.  The acuity level of our admissions is much higher than just a year ago.  I have no concept of being "caught up" anymore......LOL.  However, I am grateful that we are not pulled to the floor to work when short staffed, nor do we have to be on call.  Our Vice President of Clinical Services does realize the importance of the MDS.....thank God.   Susan Gibbs, RN MDS Coordinator Presbyterian Homes of TN