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Category: Legal Nurse Posted: November 13, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
Certified legal nurse consultants are registered nurses who also provide services as legal medical experts and liaisons between attorneys and medical sources. These nursing expert witnesses provide insight into medical issues in order to assist in legal matters.
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...
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.
C...
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) without rea...
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?â€
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 beco...
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...
Category: Personal Injury Posted: September 18, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
It is a summer day and the park is filled with all ages of participants to “Play Ballâ€. The pitch is thrown and the batter swings. All of a sudden you hear a blood curdling scream. It is the batter. He is slumped over the home plate grabbing his shoulder. His coach runs to his aide along with his parents. This is a 10 ye...
Category: Diabetes Posted: September 11, 2015 Author: Georgina Tyburski
A study published March 30 in JAMA Pediatrics links the use of glyburide in mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) to more infant complications including increased visits to the intensive care unit and respiratory distress. Glyburide (DiaBeta) is an oral tablet that patients prefer over injections of insulin to control...
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