Legal Nurse Consulting
Air Embolism – Deadly Result of Patient Abandonment
This is a case of an air embolism. Twenty-three year old Natalie B. was born physically and mentally handicapped. One afternoon, an employee of defendant MedLink of Ohio, a home healthcare company, took Natalie to the defendant Uni¬versity Hospitals of Cleveland for dialysis treatment. The employee then left while Natalie had the treatment. During the…
Read MoreExpert Witness Discredited
An expert witness’ secret had a devastating effect on a case; the result – a discredited expert witness. Sally Signal was a retired head nurse of an operating room. She was used to being in charge and had a headstrong personality. She went into the hospital for signs of a possible stroke. She had a…
Read MoreMentors – 7 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Coach or Mentor
Most successful people have at some point in time, had someone to help them navigate their path. A mentor, a coach, a personal trainer, a teacher – someone walked beside and ahead of them, helping them make their way. Perhaps you know you are ready to invest in a mentor or coach to move your…
Read MoreComputer Provider Order Entry: Saving Lives and Money Part 1
Legal nurse consultants increasingly receive electronic health records (EHRs) for analysis. How do EHRs save money and lives? What specifically are the advantages of computer provider order entry? 1. Computer provider order entry saves money Having a provider (physician, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant use a computer to enter medication orders saves money. Drug-related errors…
Read MoreWrong Wound Care Treatment: Liability
Wrong wound care treatment liability issues affect many medical malpractice cases. Many wound care clinicians remember the “good old days” when wound dressing product selection simply involved choosing between a handful of products that were essentially variations on the same theme. There was gauze, impregnated gauze and filled gauze pads. In the earlier 20th century,…
Read MoreHow to Use “Social Proof” to Promote Your Legal Nurse Consultant Business Part 1
Are you comfortable using social proof to promote your legal nurse consultant business? Writing advertising copy can be one of the most difficult tasks for anyone trying to promote their consulting services, especially those who are not trained in writing, marketing, or persuasive rhetoric. It’s pretty common to spend hours writing a blog post, email,…
Read MoreNew Years Resolutions: Is There Hidden Garbage in Your Life?
The setting was perfect – crystal white sand, a calm blue green Gulf of Mexico, deep blue beach umbrellas dotting the sand, and some puffy clouds. My friend and I had walked along a boardwalk through mangroves to reach the restaurant that perched on the edge of the land (seen in this photo as the…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultants: Are You Writing in Geek?
Are you writing in geek? What do I mean? Imagine you are an attorney who has hired a legal nurse consultant to summarize and analyze complex obstetrical medical records. You don’t understand medical terminology and you know that the information in the record is crucial to understanding the case. You give the records to the…
Read MoreLong Term Care Primer – Specialty Documents
Long term care is a highly litigated area of health care. As a legal nurse consultant (LNC) without a clinical background in long term care, I had to educate myself on this specialty. The nursing tasks were familiar but the chart was not. As I worked on more of these cases, I came to rely…
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…
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