Test Your Knowledge

Test Your Knowledge Questions:

1) Scenario: Death in facility occurred before midnight. The patient expired at 10:30 PM on 9/20/24. The mortuary removed the remains the next day, 9/21/24, after midnight 00:30 am. The MDS nurse codes the death in facility as the date the death occurred 9/20/2024. The Medical Records person closed the chart on 9/21/24 the "discharge". What should the MDS nurse do?

2) The CDC guideline states the vaccine must show it is 2024-2025 dosing to be up-to-date. If someone received a vaccine in January 2024 (which would still be in the year 2024 but last season's vaccine) would this count as up-to-date?

3) If a resident was offered the new COVID-19 2024 vaccine and refused, how would that be coded? 

4) The resident was offered the pneumonia vaccine and requested to receive the vaccine; however, the vaccine was not given by the ARD. How would the MDS be coded?