MDS Alert
MDS Tip:
Check Section AC To Reduce Incontinence
Published on Wed Nov 03, 2004 
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Paying attention to Section AC (customary routine) performed at admission can pay off by improving a resident's continence - and scoring in Section H.
Section AC asks whether the resident wakens to toilet at or most nights, notes Steven Littlehale , MS, APRN, BC, a consultant with LTCQ Inc. in Lexington, MA.
This information can give night-shift caregivers a "heads up" so they may be able to assist the resident to the toilet before he has an incontinent episode, says Littlehale.
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