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The Certified Legal Nurse Consultant: Arguably The Most Influential Member Of Your Legal Team
Category: Legal Nurse Posted: November 6, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
Certified legal nurse consultants apply their medical knowledge to legal cases regarding malpractice or other medical legal claims. Legal nurse consulting requires critical analysis of medical literature, health records, and relevant legal documents pertinent to the resolution of these cases. Consultants serve as researchers, educators, analysts...
3 Crucial Times To Seek The Help Of A Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
Category: Legal Nurse Posted: October 30, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
Attorneys assume an extensive list of responsibilities upon accepting a case, and researching specific components of the law is chief among them. However, it can be quite difficult -- if not impossible -- to gain a full understanding of complex medical issues that play a central role in your client's case.
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FAQ: What Is A Certified Legal Nurse Consultant?
Category: Legal Nurse Posted: October 23, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
A legal nurse consultant helps bridge the gaps for lawyers in medical malpractice and personal injury matters. While the lawyer is an expert on legal issues, the LNC is an expert on how the health care system operates using certain procedures. In fact, you've probably witnessed a legal nurse consultant at work (albeit, on television) withou...
Category: Uncategorized Posted: October 16, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
The formation of rapid response teams (RRT’s) at hospital was founded on the concept of failure to rescue. Failure to rescue refers to health care providers lacking to recognize early signs and symptoms of deterioration in a patient’s condition, or acting too late to prevent a cardiac arrest.
What is a rapid...
Category: Personal Health Posted: October 9, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
The flu season is here and many people are faced with the same question, “Do I Get the Flu Shot?”
The flu vaccination has been encouraged by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for all persons 6 months and older and also the population that is high risk for severe complications should they become i...
Therapeutic Hypothermia Treatment Following Cardiac Arrest
Category: Stroke Posted: October 2, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
19 year old male found unresponsive on the basketball court. EMS called, cardiac resuscitation initiated by his friends and resumed by emergency medical professionals upon arrival. He was taken to the local hospital where he lay comatose, intubated and sedated with occasional purposeful movement noted. The emergency room work up ...
Category: Personal Injury Posted: September 25, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
Advances in wound care have been significant over the past 20 years. However inaccurate wound care documentation continues to be prevalent in acute care facilities, long term care facilities and home care agencies throughout the healthcare continuum.
Standards for wound care practice are derived from several...
That Heavy Snorer Next To You May Be Killing Brain Cells
Category: Personal Health Posted: August 28, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
From the The Washington Post
The dangers associated with night-time breathing disturbances, such as obstructive sleep apnea, are well known: increas...
Making A World Without Alzheimer’s A Reality
Category: Alzheimer's Posted: August 7, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
From huffingtonpost.com
The Alzheimer's Association's newly-released report on Alzheimer's Disease is a call-to-action for Americans to redouble our efforts to prevent and fight this progressive, and ultimately fatal, brain disease.
The report cites some alarmin...
Know Warning Signs Of A Stroke
Category: Stroke Posted: July 31, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
From greenvilleonline.com
Heart disease is the No. 2 killer in South Carolina. Strokes are the No. 4 killer. The state’s high rankings in those categories has placed it part of an 11-state region known as the Stroke Belt.
Those are alarming rankings, but there is another stati...
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