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“If you didn’t chart it, you didn’t do it” Part 2: The Nursing Home Defense Perspective
Nursing homes are affected by many challenges, many of which directly affect the quality of care and allegations of nursing home negligence. Nursing home defense may center around the documentation. The challenges were highlighted by speakers at Preventing and Defending Long Term Care Litigation at The Conrad in Miami. Pat Iyer moderated a panel of…
Read More8 ways to use electronic monitoring to track nurses and patients
How many ways can we use electronic monitoring to track nurses through technology? Attorneys and legal nurse consultants can tap a number of ways to determine who was doing what at what time. Nurses’ activities can be tracked with the advent of scanned badges, Pmnicell/Pyxis medication machines, telemetry and electronic medical records. Technology can provide…
Read MoreElectronic Medical Records: How Useful Are They?
Click on the image to enlarge. If you can tell me what it says, I will pat you on the back. Electronic medical records can confuse the analysis of a case. Scenario: Mrs. Smith sustained multiple trauma including a severe brain injury after a fall. She was minimally responsive and had severe contractures of all…
Read MoreEntrepreneurs, Elephants and Business Success
Business success preoccupies brilliant, wonderful, beautiful entrepreneurs with dreams to make a big footprint on the world. But making a big footprint isn’t what you have in common with an elephant. In fact, without changes, the elephant is far better equipped to make that big mark than most entrepreneurs will ever be. Why? Because of…
Read More“If you didn’t chart it you didn’t do it.” Part 1
In the medical legal world, “if you didn’t chart it, you didn’t do it” engenders more fear in nurses than almost any other phrase as it is used to reiterate the importance of documentation. The phrase is also used to accuse nurses whose documentation is not complete. Incomplete documentation can dramatically affect a malpractice case.…
Read More7 Musts for Your Email Signature File
Is your email signature line working for you? My good friend David Newman made me rethink and redo ours after reading what he had to say. Consider these dos and donts when you write your legal nurse consultant email signature line. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ My marketing coaching client was redoing his website. (Can you FEEL his exhilaration?)…
Read MoreThe Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Using WordPress
Why should you be using WordPress for your LNC website? 1. WordPress is Easy to Use Every LNC business needs to have a website today; that is a known fact. An important part of having a website is being able to easily add, change, and delete content that is on the site. WordPress allows all…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultants: Ask for the Case the Right Way
Ask for the case the right way! You are talking to an attorney who has a case that needs to be reviewed. You want the work. There are three key components to remember. The first key comes directly from Radical Leadership and is the most powerful concept that I have ever learned and employed in…
Read MoreExpert Witness Evaluation of Liability for Healthcare Fall
Injurious healthcare falls are one of the most common reasons why providers are sued. Spinal cord injuries, head injuries, and fractures make these serious cases for attorneys and nursing expert witnesses. Many states have regulations that govern who is qualified to act as a liability expert. These factors make a strong expert witness: a combination…
Read MoreAnalyzing liability for a healthcare fall
You’re a legal nurse consultant asked to be involved in analyzing liability for a healthcare fall. When injurious falls occur in a healthcare facility, a lawsuit may result. Here are some of the common deviations from the standard of care that may lead to a fall. The plaintiff’s expert witness may allege any of these…
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