Before I ventured out of bedside and into legal nurse consulting, my last role was an MDS Coordinator. And if you don’t know what that is, don’t worry, most of my colleagues at the time didn’t know either. Though, to be fair, when I applied for the position, I also had no idea what I was signing up for, or how important it was.   Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a standardized, federally mandated clinical assessment tool used in Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes to evaluate