Monthly Archives: December 2011

Legal Nurse Consultants: Tips for Improving Writing Skills

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Pat Iyer

Today, people are using very different writing styles, not just what you learned in school from your English teacher. Informal writing has changed. Text messaging, in particular, has caused us to think in terms of brevity of communication. But the … Continue reading →

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Cataract Surgery – the Easy Way

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Pat Iyer

Last month I had cataract surgery on my left eye. I returned to the hospital this month to have the other eye operated on. It was an entirely different experience. My husband and I got up at 4:30 AM to … Continue reading →

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Are You Writing in Geek?

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Pat Iyer

Imagine you are an attorney who has hired a legal nurse consultant to summarize and analyze complex obstetrical medical records. You don’t understand medical terminology and you know that the information in the record is crucial to understanding the case. … Continue reading →

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Why autopsies are on the decline

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Pat Iyer

Today I was wrapping Christmas gifts and thinking about autopsies. These two activities don’t seem to go together, do they? One reason I am thinking about death and autopsies at Christmas time because my father died on December 25, 1977. … Continue reading →

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Expert Witnesses: Supporting Your Nursing Opinion

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Pat Iyer

As an independent legal nurse consultant, with over a decade of experience who has reviewed dozens of expert cases and thousands of “behind the scenes” cases and provided deposition and trial testimony, I believe that one of the most important … Continue reading →

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Dying for a big butt

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Pat Iyer

No, I am not talking about people dying because they are obese and have big butts. I am talking about women who go to laypeople to get injections into their buttocks to make them look larger. A dangerous trend has … Continue reading →

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The Hospitalist and Nurse Practitioner Team

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Pat Iyer

Healthcare institutions are looking for ways to cut costs and improve quality. Can this be done? Are they incompatible goals? The financial survival of hospitals is dependent on how they prevent “never events” and those quality of care issues that … Continue reading →

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The Nurse Practitioner Role in the Physician Office

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Pat Iyer

The nurse practitioner is a masters or doctorally prepared nurse. Increasingly in the future, nurse practitioners will be educated at the doctoral level. In 2004, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners recommended a shift in the education of advanced practice … Continue reading →

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Is it Bladder Cancer?

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Pat Iyer

One of the questions I put on a test when I taught genitourinary nursing eons ago was, “You come home from nursing school and your father tells you, ‘On Wednesday my urine came out red.’ What do you tell him?” … Continue reading →

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