Expertise
LNP 103 – Nurse Practitioners' Expanding Liability and Role
Nurse practitioners’ expanding liability comes with an expanding role. New York became the 18th state to no longer require experienced nurse practitioners to have a written practice service agreement with a physician. Experienced nurse practitioners (who have more than 3,600 hours of practice) are even more independent. In this edition of Iyer’s Insights, Pat…
Read MoreLNP 102 – Analyzing Nurse Practitioner Liability: Uncovering the Risks – Carolyn Buppert
Carolyn Buppert is an attorney who focuses on legal issues affecting nurses, advanced practice clinicians and their employers. She studies nurse practitioner liability. Her clients include hospitals, health systems, insurers, physician and nurse practitioner practices, visiting nurse agencies, nursing homes, hospices, schools of nursing and a national certification organization. She is a frequent contributor to…
Read MoreLNP 100 – How Employee Engagement Affects Medical Errors – Julie Ann Sullivan
Julie Ann Sullivan works with organizations that want to create a workplace environment where people are productive, engaged and appreciated, and who doesn’t want that? Medical errors occur when employee engagement is missing. Listen in as Pat Iyer and Julie Ann Sullivan chat about these points related to LNC business success The meaning of workplace…
Read MoreLNP 93 – Medical Malpractice – When Bad things Happen to Good People
Medical malpractice can happen to anyone, even the mother of a nursing expert witness. Barbara Levin is a registered nurse and expert witness who is employed as an orthopedic clinical scholar providing care to patients as a staff nurse in a major hospital in Boston. Barbara is also an author and an editor of books…
Read MoreLNP 92 – Scared to Death- What LNCs Must Know About Patient Fears – Colleen Sweeney
Colleen Sweeney RN is a skilled communicator who instantly wins over her audiences. She concentrates on the patient experience and she conducted a three year study about patient fears. Having spent a lifetime in hospitals as a nursing student, nursing aide, nursing assistant, graduate nurse, registered nurse, educator, manager and director, Colleen knows health care…
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