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Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care – Is Your Policy Up to Snuff?

June 28, 2022
I have been there, done that. Sitting in the fact witness chair in front of a plaintiff attorney who is wildly waving a copy of my facility’s wound care policy and procedure, demanding to know why cer...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care – Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed. That Is the Question!

April 8, 2022
As detailed in my last few blogs, nutrition plays a huge role in risk for skin breakdown as well as healing of wounds. Just about ALL wound litigation involves nutrition in one way or another, be it d...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care – Wound Care From a “30,000-Foot” View

April 1, 2021
By Heidi Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON Since the advent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), I haven’t done much flying, but I love travel and I love flying. One of my favorite experiences is a w...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care: Adjusting Expectations

January 23, 2020
By Heidi Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." – Charles Dicken When Charles Dickens wrote this introduction to his Victorian-era novel, A Tale of T...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care: Nutrition Assessment, Support, and Documentation, Part 1

August 5, 2020
Pressure injury risk and development are multifactorial, individualized processes. Each patient presents with a unique set of circumstances and needs. In looking at charts for attorneys to determine w...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care: Nutrition Assessment, Support, and Documentation, Part 3

September 24, 2020
By Heidi Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON "Defendants failed to provide adequate nutrition to prevent plaintiff from suffering severe malnutrition and weight loss. This allowed the development of a sev...

Litigation Basics: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know

August 11, 2022
The United States is one of the most litigious nations in the world, with the result that numerous medical malpractice lawsuits are initiated against hospitals and other health care facilities, as wel...

Medical Malpractice Litigation: Standards of Care

August 19, 2022
In medical malpractice litigation, a thorough review of the medical chart is done to determine whether the facility or health care provider “met the standards of care” related to the medical issues at...

Nurse Paralegal: The Process in Practice

February 17, 2023
A client walks into the law firm and states that a family member has suffered from unfair treatment and, as a result, acquired a pressure injury while in the hospital. The firm gathers the information...

Off Label Drug Use in Wound Care

July 15, 2016
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC Providers may view off label drug use (OLDU) for wounds as the "new wave". However, if there is little or no scientific evidence supporting th...
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