Be smarter than the Covid-19 virus
It’s really pretty simple to be smarter than the COVID-19 virus.
Read more
Long Term Care Tele health visits – The new normal?
Older adults who live in nursing homes or long-term care (LTC) facilities are at the greatest direct risk of contracting the new coronavirus and having severe symptoms. To combat this threat, LTCs have enforced extreme social distancing measures, such as banning or limiting visitors and eliminating group recreational activities and congregate dining. With the onset…
Telehealth visits. The new normal?
The Internet has transformed modern life, even more so with the appearance of COVID-19 and reducing staff exposure to ill persons. Tele health is the use of digital information and communication technologies such as computers and mobile devices to access health care services remotely. With the onset of COVID-19, doctors have harnessed this technology to…
Some nursing homes try to grab stimulus checks from residents for ‘care costs’
Modern Healthcare reported today that some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks, a cash grab lawmakers want to halt. It has been reported that some facilities are trying to take the stimulus payments intended for their residents on Medicaid. Then they’re requiring those people to sign over…
Researchers find multiple strains of coronavirus
Researchers find patients with COVID-19 in Bay Area, Grand Princess cruise ship had multiple strains of coronavirus The San Francisco Chronicle (6/8, Said, 2.67M) reports patients with COVID-19 in the Bay Area as well as on the Grand Princess cruise ship “had strains of the coronavirus that originated in locations from China to Europe, underscoring the global…
No one knows how to say “hello” anymore.
Suddenly, because of the pandemic and Covid 19, no one knows how to casually say hello anymore. Especially if you’re going to be someone who travels frequently, meeting new people from new places, it feels important to offer some sort of physical gesture. Handshakes started as far back as 5th century B.C., thought likely a…
Preventing falls presents a challenge in nursing home settings
The incidence rate for falls in nursing home residents is two to three times greater than that in community-dwelling elderly (about 1.7 falls per bed annually). Ten to 25% of falls among institutionalized elderly result in a fracture, laceration, or need for hospital care. Preventing falls constitutes a significant challenge in nursing home settings and…
Don’t miss the signs of infection in the Elderly…
That confusion or changes in mentation is often a first sign of an infection in elderly patients? Often a family or care staff member will say their elder loved one has just “not been themselves” the past couple of days, and when they go to the hospital they are often “Septic” with some infection. A…
The importance of having the right Expert Nurse
Skin Care: Court Accepts Physician, Rejects Nurse as Expert on Cause of Patient’s Bedsores. After the patient’s passing, his wife sued the hospital for malpractice and wrongful death over six separate bedsores that started and progressed to deep tissue ulcers while the patient was in the hospital’s ICU being treated for pneumonia. The hospital asked…
Patient safety in Nursing homes
Arbitration: Case Did Not Involve Medical Malpractice “The accident was apparently caused by the front wheels getting hung up on the bed’s electrical power cord lying across the floor of her room. ” Patient safety should always be the top priority in care ~ This demonstrates how a devastating injury can occur from something that…
FALLS: Case Review
Falls can be problematic with the elderly in Nursing Homes—especially so after a hospitalization. Often the returning patient can be disoriented and at a heightened risk for falling and require additional interventions to keep them safe. Ongoing nursing assessments are crucial for keeping patients safe with appropriate safety interventions maintained. CASE REVIEW: Patient Fall: County…
What To Look For In Traumatic Brain Injury Cases
My interview with Tom Crosley at Crosley Law regarding what to look for in a Traumatic Brain Injury cases.
Would Your Documentation Hold Up In Court?
In this hurry up paced work environment most nurses find themselves in, it is easy to see how certain tasks may get shortchanged in an effort for efficiency. Everyone is pressed for time- yet there are specific tasks nurses must do each shift and do quickly. One area that should never be shortchanged is documentation.…
Sepsis—Why Every Hospitalized Patient Should be Monitored
Sepsis is a life-threatening, medical emergency affecting approximately one million persons annually in the United States (NIH, 2017). Patients hospitalized with sepsis are eight times more likely to die during hospitalization (Hall et al., 2011). Sepsis is defined as “a life-threatening complication of an infection”. Many doctors view sepsis as a three-stage syndrome, starting with…
Cost-Effective Litigation Help From Legal Nurse Consultants
Did you know….. That having a Legal Nurse Consultant review your medical malpractice or injury cases can save an attorney hundreds of dollars in unbillable time? Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (CLNC’s) are registered nurses who have expertise in the healthcare system and can analyze complex medical records involved in medical malpractice, personal injury, insurance defense…
We Can Help
That having a Legal Nurse Consultant review your medical malpractice or injury cases can save an attorney hundreds of dollars in unbillable time? Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (CLNC’s) are registered nurses who have expertise in the healthcare system and are able to analyze complex medical records involved in medical malpractice, personal injury, insurance defense or…
It Only Takes 2 Hours
Pressure wounds (also called bedsores) can develop in as quickly as 2 hours (“Bedsores,” 2015) and can take months to heal? Constant pressure against the skin causes a decreased blood supply to the area causing tissue injury and tissue death leading to a pressure wound. These wounds commonly happen to patients who are unable to change their…
Fall Risk
Every 20 minutes an older adult dies from a fall? Millions of older people, those 65 and older, fall— and falling once doubles your chances of falling again! (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016) Falls are also the most common cause of non-fatal injuries and of hospital admissions for trauma. Falls in a hospital…
Did You Know………
Stress can be a motivator or a destructor of your health? It’s all in how we channel it. Left unchecked and undealt with, chronic stress can and will wreak havoc on your health. When we have a chronic high stressed life, our bodies will become fatigued, we have difficulty concentrating, are irritable. Muscles are in…