Posts Tagged ‘falls’
465 Preventing Falls in the Nursing Home – Sharon Banks Tarr
For a long time, falls in nursing homes and assisted living facilities have caused countless injuries. Sharon Banks Tarr, has a Master’s in Nursing, is an LNCC, and has worked as a surveyor for healthcare facilities. She shares her wealth of experience about what causes falls, how to determine whether they’re preventable, and how to…
Read MoreThe Best 2019 Legal Nurse Podcasts
This is our most listened to podcast of 2019. #1: 325 Falls: Evaluation of Liability If you are a legal nurse consultant getting cases, chances are you have or will review a fall case. Falls can occur in homes, workplaces, outside, and in healthcare facilities – anywhere people walk, right? In this podcast I focus…
Read More325 Falls Evaluation of Liability
This is our most listened to podcast of 2019. If you are a legal nurse consultant getting cases, chances are you have or will review a fall case. Falls can occur in homes, workplaces, outside, and in healthcare facilities – anywhere people walk, right? In this podcast I focus on healthcare falls. Injurious healthcare falls…
Read MoreLNP 171 Nursing Home Litigation: What Caused the Fall?
This is a story of a fascinating nursing home case. This case reported in March 2018 struck me for several reasons. It involved a sixty-one-year-old man who was a long-term resident of a nursing home because he had right-sided paralysis due to a stroke. His left leg was also amputated. On February 4, 2014, he…
Read MoreLNP 151 The LNC’s Role in a Head Injury Fall Case
An attorney asks you to review a case involving a 40-year-old man who fell on a sidewalk and sustained a traumatic brain injury. His CT Scan showed a small right- sided subdural hematoma. He was taken to the ICU and given supportive care including serial neurologic exams. You are asked to perform an analysis of…
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