Expertise
LNP 305 Head Injury Care Analysis
As a legal nurse consultant, you may be asked to work on cases involving patients with head injuries. These can occur in all kinds of settings, both within and outside healthcare facilities. Let’s head into the emergency department. Head injuries are responsible for almost a half million visits to the emergency departments (ED) in the…
Read MoreLNP 304 Pediatric Brain Injury Dr. Brenda Eagan Johnson
Dr. Brenda Eagan Johnson has over 20 years’ experience in pediatric brain injury. She is the state program coordinator for Pennsylvania’s nationally recognized BrainSTEPS brain injury school consulting program. She holds a doctorate in Mind, Brain, and Teaching from Johns Hopkins and is a legal forensic and educational consultant. Listen in as Kelly Campbell and…
Read MoreLNP 303 What Kayaking Taught Me about Legal Nurse Consulting
I kayaked for the first time after I turned 65. The first time I went kayaking I discovered a Florida that you cannot see from cars. In the process of learning how to kayak, I saw parallels to growing a legal nurse consulting business. In December 2015, a man from my church taught me how…
Read MoreLNP 299 Systems Errors and Medication Tragedies
The term “system errors” describes errors in the medication administration process that support error-prone practices rather than practices which cannot lead to or do not support errors. Lucian Leape and co-authors described 13 system errors which were identified as “Proximal Causes” of medication errors. These are the system errors they pinpointed. Listen in as Pat…
Read MoreLNP 298 Toxicology Expert Witnessing: More than Numbers Dr. Allison Muller
Dr. Allison Muller is a board-certified toxicologist and registered pharmacist with over 20 years’ experience in the field of clinical toxicology. After a nearly 20-year career leading the poison control center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which included consulting on toxicology cases from 21 counties in Pennsylvania and Delaware, Dr. Muller is presently an…
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