2012 MDS Assessment Scheduling Calendar
PPS OMRA Scheduler CMS calendar for scheduling EOT and COT OMRA MDS assessments
The next CMS Skilled Nursing Facility Long Term Care Open Door Forum is scheduled for January 19 2pm-3pm. This Forum will not be a telephone conference, but will be in the new format of an audio only streaming web forum. Registration for audio only streaming web forum will open on January 13, 2012. ODF SNF
Many hospitalizations of long term care residents may be avoidable, says a recent report by the DHHS Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy. More than one fourth of long term care residents are hospitalized each year, 60 percent of which are most likely inappropriate.
The report focuses on the clinical categories of Preventable Conditions such as sepsis and UTIs, Potentially Manageable Conditions like pneumonia, and Futile Care that does not extend life or improve quality of life.
Recommended practices to decrease unnecessary hospitalizations are for facilities to increase RN staffing, increase the use of Nurse Practitioners, and provide more education and care tools to staff members.
$67,720 was the average wage for registered nurses in the United States last year according to the latest report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For a full time nurse that comes to $32 an hour.
What state you live in can greatly change that number. The annual mean wage for nurses in California was $87,480, or $42 an hour, and for nurses in Iowa, $51, 970, or $21 an hour. Of course the cost of living is higher in California than Iowa.
Bureau of Labor Statistic’s Occupational Handbook for Registered Nurses, 2020-2011 Edition
Training hours for nursing assistants should be increased to meet the increasing demand for qualified direct care workers, says Policy Works, a federal taskforce and alliance of agencies including the U.S. Department of Labor.
Their recent report says there will be a shortage of 4 million direct care workers by 2016, and states many workers shun direct care because of that occupation’s low wages, poor benefits, lack of room for advancement, and inadequate training and support.
They support following the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that the minimum training of certified nursing assistants and home health aides be increased to 120 hours and to include demonstration of competence in caring for the elderly.
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