MDS Alert
READER QUESTION:
How Do Mandatory Patient Lifting Requirements Affect ADL Coding?
Published on Sun Feb 15, 2009 
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Always code the MDS based on what actually occurred. Thus, if two people provided assistance,then that is what you should capture on the MDS.One note of caution:
If one person is actually providing the assistance, and a second person is standing by, you should only capture the hands-on assistance. There is not a coding category that captures handson physical assistance and supervision/oversight in the same transfer for either column A or column B.Expert advice provided by
Rena Shephard, MHA, RN, RAC-MT, C-NE, president and CEO of RRS Healthcare Consulting Services in San Diego, and founding chair and executive editor of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators.Other Articles in this issue of
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