Expertise
335 Tampering with Medical Records: Red Flags
What are the red flag warning signs that someone may have tampered with medical records? This is Pat Iyer with Iyer’s Insights, one of the twice weekly shows of Legal Nurse Podcast. I’ve spotted altered medical records and want to share some of the clues with you. What are the responsibilities of facilities for maintaining…
Read More334 Electronic Medical Records Pros and Cons Sharon McEwen
Sharon McEwen is a nurse with 30 years of experience in critical care, emergency department, trauma, transplant nursing. She received her Master’s Degree in Informatics, which puts her in a very small number of nurses in the United States who have that specialized level of knowledge. She is a real expert in the area of…
Read More333 Compassion Fatigue in Legal Nurse Consultants
Do you suffer from compassion fatigue? Just what is this? Dr. Charles Figley defines it as a state experienced by those helping people or animals in distress; it is an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for…
Read More329 Elder Abuse Cases
Attorneys involved in litigating elder abuse cases benefit from the help of a legal nurse consultant. Your ability to interpret medical records helps your clients investigate these types of elder abuse cases. Here is handy guide to elder abuse cases terms. Neglect is the foundation of elder abuse cases when an elder does not receive…
Read More328 Violence in the Nursing Home Gina D’Angelo
Gina D’Angelo has worked for more than 25 years in the geriatric setting in the capacity of product development, operations, and clinical roles both in the local community, as well as regional and corporate levels spanning several states across the United States. Today we’re going to be talking about an interesting topic that gives rise…
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