MDS Coordinator

Gogebic Medical Care Facility•Wakefield, MI

10d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves directing, evaluating, and supervising all resident care, ensuring the appropriate implementation of physician's plans of care. The MDS Coordinator is responsible for preparing and submitting MDS documents for reimbursement purposes, tracking their completion, and ensuring timely submission. This position also involves assisting in resident admissions, transfers, and discharges, including documentation. The role requires making recommendations for nursing record documentation, assisting the Director of Nursing in investigations of suspected abuse or neglect, and supporting employee counseling. The MDS Coordinator will handle resident, family, or physician complaints, assist with the hiring process, and conduct resident care plan team conferences. They will also gather information for MDS assessments, including change of conditions, quarterly, and annual reviews, and ensure proper signatures. The position involves reviewing reports on the timely completion of MDS assessments and care plans, scheduling MDS assessments and team conferences according to guidelines, and entering nursing-related problems into the computer for care plans. The MDS Coordinator will gather information for MDS, enter it into the computer by the due date, and complete the corresponding CAA analysis with triggers. They are responsible for accurate and timely completion of reports and assignments, rendering immediate assistance for resident welfare, identifying and correcting safety hazards, and working cooperatively with various stakeholders. The role includes observing, interpreting, and implementing facility policies and procedures for nursing staff, supervising and evaluating their conformance, and assisting the Director of Nursing in updating procedures. The MDS Coordinator will observe, follow, supervise, and evaluate the implementation of resident rights and facility safety rules. They will assess resident equipment and supply needs, participate in educational programs, and provide recommendations regarding educational needs for nursing assistants. The position also involves assisting with the infection control program and interviewing/counseling nursing staff, recommending personnel or disciplinary actions.

Requirements

Communicate effectively in person, on the telephone, and in writing.
Possess current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
Comply with all Facility policies and procedures.
Comply with all policies and procedures as may be established by your supervisor.
Comply with all safety, universal precautions and infection control policies and procedures.
Be responsible and supervise the safety of residents in the Facility.
Present a friendly, calm, cooperative, positive manner.
Arrive to work as scheduled and consistently demonstrate dependability and punctuality.
Obtain continuing education relating to the care of the geriatric resident and nursing education.
Maintain licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
Assume a position on Nursing Management On-Call Schedule Rotation.
On occasion may need to lift up to 40 lbs.

Nice To Haves

Experience in performing the assessment process
Experience in computers
Minimum of one-year experience in geriatrics
Minimum of one-year experience in a supervisory capacity
Experience in MDS

Responsibilities

Direct, evaluate, and supervise all resident care and initiate corrective action as necessary.
Review residents admitted and compare physician orders with each resident’s plan of care to assure appropriate implementation of the physician’s plan of care.
Assist in the admission, transfer, and discharge of residents and to complete admission, transfer, and discharge documentation.
Prepare MDS required for reimbursement purposes to include tracking, completion, and timely submission of these documents.
Make recommendation on documentation in the nursing record of residents, as necessary.
Assist the Director of Nursing in the investigation process for suspected abuse or neglect.
Assist/support the Director of Nursing with the counseling of employees.
Listen to resident, family, or physician complaints and initiate corrective and/or report special problems to the Director of Nursing.
Assist with the hiring process as requested.
Conduct and participate in resident care plan Team Conference. Conduct Team Conferences weekly.
Gather all information contained in Team Conference summaries and ensure data is documented.
Support the Quality Assessment and Assurance Committee with the data collection and reports.
Serve as a member of the QAPI.
Gather data for initial MDS as well as, change of conditions, quarterly, and annual reviews on all residents, and obtain signatures.
Review reports of timely completion of residents’ MDS assessments and care plans with follow-up action as necessary.
Schedule all resident MDS’s and Team Conferences in accordance with state and federal guidelines.
Enter nursing related problems onto computer for care plans.
Gather information for MDS, enter into computer on due date, then complete corresponding CAA analysis with Triggers and Potential Triggers.
Complete reports and assignments accurately and adhere to established time schedules.
Render immediate assistance for all residents’ welfare as necessary.
Identify and observe safety hazards and initiate corrective action as necessary.
Work cooperatively with administration, all nursing service personnel, physicians, community agencies, residents, families, and consultants.
Establish open lines of communication between all nursing personnel and take follow-up action as necessary.
Observe, interpret, and implement established Facility policies, procedures, and regulations to RN’s, LPN’s, and CNA’s.
Supervise and evaluate LPN’s, RN’s, and CNA’s conformance to Facility policies, procedures, and regulations.
Assist the Director of Nursing to update or revise procedures as needed, offer input and recommendations in the formation of new nursing procedures.
Observe, follow, supervise, and evaluate the implementation of resident rights at all times.
Observe the Facility safety rules to nursing staff.
Assess resident equipment and supply needs and make recommendations to the Director of Nursing.
Participate in Facility educational programs including, but not limited to, in-service for Facility personnel.
Evaluate resident and staff needs and provide the Administrator and the Director of Nursing with comprehensive recommendations concerning the educational needs of nursing assistants.
Assist with the infection control program as requested.
Interview, counsel nursing staff and recommend personnel or disciplinary action to the Director of Nursing as necessary.