LNP 276 The Vulnerable Elderly in Nursing Homes Donna Denert

By Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC | April 15, 2019

Donna Denert has been involved in healthcare since the age of 16. She’s a third-generation nurse and she’s worked in numerous nursing capacities, currently in long-term care for the last 17 years. She is a nurse consultant with the Middletown Connecticut Health Department and a board-certified legal nurse consultant. Donna is also interested and trained…

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LNP 275 Defending the Pressure Sore Case

By Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC | April 10, 2019

In Legal Nurse Podcast 274, Heidi Cross commented on the unavoidable pressure sore. In this podcast, I go a bit deeper into the concepts of how pressure sores cases are defended. I spent 20 years testifying as a medical surgical nursing expert. Some of those cases involved pressure sores. Listen in as Pat Iyer chats…

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LNP 274 The Unavoidable Pressure Sore Heidi Cross

By Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC | April 8, 2019

Heidi Cross is a board certified wound and ostomy nurse, and also a board-certified family nurse practitioner. She is working in Syracuse, New York. She also has her own independent practice and does expert witness work for both plaintiff and also defense attorneys Today we’re going to be talking about avoidable and unavoidable pressure sores,…

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LNP 273 Trouble Ahead for LNCs

By Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC | April 3, 2019

In this podcast, I cover 2 ways you as a legal nurse consultant could get into ethical issues. We’ll start with romance scams, which is what Debby described, and is also called catfishing. And I will cover common ethical issues attorneys face and how you can get pulled in. Your knowledge of how to spot…

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