LNP 291 Spinal Cord Injuries: Nursing Liability

By Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC | May 29, 2019

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Spinal cord injuries cause devastating injuries. Lawsuits may result with the injuries occurred as the result of someone’s negligence: falls on someone’s icy sidewalk or in a healthcare facility, or injury from motor vehicle crashes, for example.

Paralysis from a spinal cord injury causes major emotional, physical, and also financial damages.

Despite improvements in early recognition and treatment, spinal cord injury remains a devastating event, which can also produce a severe and permanent disability. Be sure to listen to Charles Fleisher’s podcast, which was 254, about how he ended up paralyzed after a car accident and how his life was forever changed.

Listen in as Pat Iyer chats about these points

  • The three distinct factors of rapid response preparedness
  • What are the first things nurses must do is to assess the patient?
  • Some of the devastating cauda equina symptoms
  • The tragic case I worked on of a young man whose blood was drawn in a clinic.
  • Tips about our role helping attorneys with a case of a patient dropped during transfer

Related Product: The book is called Safeguard Your Ambulatory Care Practice

When I had an opportunity to teach a program on legal issues for the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, I realized there are a lot of practice issues that affect nurses in clinics, same day surgery units, office practices, and also urgent care centers. I put together a book that will help you analyze cases in these settings.

The book is called Safeguard Your Ambulatory Care Practice. This text highlights the legal risks of nurses who work in a wide variety of ambulatory care settings: clinics, medical offices or telephone triage and also other settings. It focuses on one of the high-risk aspects of medical care: ambulatory care risk management. 

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Pat Iyer has been a legal nurse consultant since 1987.  She also built a successful LNC business that was filled with loyal attorney clients who returned over and over with cases.

 

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