Oh yes, my DON didn't want me to complete significant changes because they would cause QI's to increase the numbers on the reports and then wouldn't come off for 6 months. > Have any of you had the experience of having your D.O.N. "suggest" that your > coding is incorrect because we don't want that on the QI report? How did > you handle it? I always think of the correct answer and hour after the > conversation is over. > > > /---------------------------------------------------------- > I always say it is the job of the charge nurses and the clinical care > managers to change what is wrong on the floor and then I do not have to code > things that do not look good on the MDS- such as dehydration or fecal > impactions. I say I am much like a reporter-I do not make the "news" I > merely report it. Send out those hydration carts. Pass those snacks. Get > that bowel program going and give laxatives if no BM recorded. If the "bad" > stuff does not happen it does not have to be coded. Becky > > > /---------------------------------------------------------- > The Case Mix Discussion Group is a free service of the > American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators
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