MDS Alert
Ready To Earn 4.5 Contact Hours In Nursing Continuing Education?
Published on Wed Mar 28, 2007
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MDS Alert
- Medicare Payment:
Will Your Skilled Care Documentation Fly With The FI?
5 essential tips prevent payment recoupments or worse. Coding the MDS accurately so a resident [...] - ADL Assessment:
Get In The Payment Groove: Use These Bed Mobility Assessment, Coding Moves.
Short changing this late-loss ADL robs the care coffers. If your facility is like many, [...] - Coding Quizzer:
Turn This Conversation With A CNA Into Bed Mobility Coding.
Put your analytical skills to the test. How would you code a resident's bed mobility [...] - Coding Accuracy:
Failing To Do This Will Leave Your Bed Mobility Coding Ailing
2 quick double checks will save your facility thousands of dollars. Accurately coding bed mobility [...] - Resident Assessment:
Jumpstart Your Culture Change Revolution: Enlist The MDS As A QoL Tool
Don't be behind the bandwagon ... climb aboard with these key strategies. Culture change is [...] - Quality of Life:
Target Physical Losses That Have A Devastating Impact
Improving these 4 areas can make a major difference to a resident. To improve a [...] - Care Planning:
Address Falls (J4) As A Safety And Quality-Of-Life Issue
Solve 2 problems at once. If you see falls coded in Section J4, you know [...] - Medication Management:
Expand Your Efforts to Taper, Discontinue Meds Under F329
If you're only doing this for antipsychotics (O4a), watch out. To taper or not to [...] - MDS & Billing News
The MDS plays a lead role in the new Quality Indicator Survey process. The Centers [...] - Ready To Earn 4.5 Contact Hours In Nursing Continuing Education?
If you're interested in obtaining 4.5 continuing education contact hours in nursing for the last [...] - Clip and Save:
Use The RAP To Identify, Address Causes Of Incontinence
Incontinence is a care and quality of life issue. If the resident has urinary incontinence [...]
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