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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Nonhealing Pressure Sores
It is challenging to heal chronic wounds. Reasons for nonhealing wounds For patient wounds that do not have the ability to heal, the approach is different. These individuals with the inability to heal (nonhealable wound) may be due to inadequate … Continue reading
Posted in CMS never events, Damages, Pressure sores
Tagged decubitus ulcers, Dr. Diane Krasner, pressure sores, pressure ulcers
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Skin changes at end of life – preventable?
Skin changes at the end of life – appearance Also known as Kennedy Terminal Ulcers, these are a specific subgroup of pressure ulcers that some individuals develop as they are dying. They are usually shaped like a pear, butterfly, or … Continue reading
Pressure Sores and Damages
Pain Scales Use with Pressure Ulcers Pain from pressure sores can sometimes be measured. A variety of pain scales are used to measure that which is subjective. The universally accepted measurement techniques are the utilization of visual analog scales (10-cm … Continue reading
Posted in Damages, Dr. Diane Krasner, Pressure sores
Tagged decubitus ulcers, Dr. Diane Krasner, pressure sores, pressure ulcers
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Interruption Awareness and Medical Errors
This is a great explanation of how the overload that occurs in a nurse’s job can result in distraction and medical errors.
Healthcare fraud: shaking the foundations
Healthcare fraud is big business, which costs the US Government and Americans huge dollars. There are several federal statutes that tie into making fraud a crime. These criminal statues include Health care fraud Theft or embezzlement in connection to health … Continue reading
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Tagged cardiac stents fraud, False Claims ACt, healthcare fraud, nursing home fraud
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Breaking Down the Nursing Home Chart
Nurses without long term care experience may be very hesitant to review one of these cases due to their lack of knowledge of these industry specific records. Once you understand where important information is located within these medical records you … Continue reading
Are you writing dangling modifiers?
I’ve just finished writing The Manual for Writing for Fame and Fortune. Modifiers dangle if they do not seem to be related to anything in the sentence or if they are not placed near enough to the words they modify … Continue reading
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Legal nurse consultants: How to lose a client in one report
Want repeat business? Here are some report “don’ts”. 1. Striking the wrong key Relying on the computer to function as the only proof reader of your LNC report is sure to miss a few common typographical or grammatical errors. An … Continue reading
Psychiatrist Beaten By Patient at Hospital
Damages Violence by patients against hospital staff is a growing concern. In a Virginia case, a psychiatrist was beaten by a patient and suffered a
