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 […]
The 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 […]
325 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 […]
LNP 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 […]
LNP 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 […]