Expertise
Legal Nurse Consulting: Part of a Fast Growing Sector (Ed-Med)
Legal nurse consulting is part of the largest sector of jobs in the U.S. economy and the fastest growing sector in the rest of the world: the Ed-Med sector. This means the jobs devoted to education or medicine/health care. We know that manufacturing is on the decline and the service industry is on the rise,…
Read MoreIdeas for Legal Nurse Consulting Newsletters
Many legal nurse consultants use a legal nurse consulting newsletter (paper or electronic) or a blog as a way to develop a relationship with the attorneys who they want to attract to their website or services. I will use the terms of newsletter or blog interchangeably in this blog post. Goals of creating a legal…
Read MoreWhy Medical Records can be Defective
Medical records can be defective. We know that as legal nurse consultants. The analysis of cases involving medical issues rests heavily on being able to extract meaningful information from medical records. Why are some electronic medical records inherently defective? Medical record software program defects One reason why medical records can be defective is an inadequate…
Read More“If you didn’t chart it, you didn’t do it” Part 3: The Nursing Home Defense Perspective
Do you subscribe to “If you didn’t chart it you didn’t do it”? Incomplete nursing records plague all types of settings and complicate nursing home defense strategies. Nursing homes are particularly vulnerable due to the low number of professional staff available to document. Nursing homes have many challenges, many of which directly affect the quality…
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…
Read More3 Faces of Bullying in Health Care
Bullying in health care shows up in many forms. Here are some examples. Bullying by a patient An angry young male is admitted to the hospital after he was shot by police during a drug deal. He becomes demanding and treats the nurses like they are his personal servants. One of the nurses finds a…
Read MoreHow the Legal Nurse Consultant Can Assist an Attorney with a Fall Case
The legal nurse consultant (LNC) assists the attorney by providing services to identify the liability, causation and damages associated with a fall case. These are some of the services. LNC Services for a Fall Case A chronology of medical care The LNC goes through the records of the plaintiff from before and after the fall.…
Read MoreWinning the Global Fight Against AIDs
Are we winning the global fight against AIDS? I remember first reading about AIDS in the early 1980s. Then AIDs was diagnosed in fewer than 20 patients in the U.S. Millions of Africans were infected, but there was no way to detect this. Dr. Michel Kazatchkine was one of the physicians involved in the early…
Read MoreHow to get information about a motor vehicle accident
Have you ever wondered how you can get hidden sources of information about a motor vehicle accident, particularly when there is a question of when it happened? Here’s a proven fact: you can and should work with the attorney to determine timing of the event. Secret sources of information about a motor vehicle accident 1.…
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