Nursing Home Litigation: Investigation and Case Preparation, Second Edition - Softcover

9781933264004: Nursing Home Litigation: Investigation and Case Preparation, Second Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933264004 ISBN 13: 9781933264004

Publisher: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc., 2006

Each chapter in this highly praised book has been revised and updated while new chapters have been added to expand upon even more issues in nursing home litigation. It was written as a reference for attorneys representing either plaintiffs or defendants, with perspectives from experienced attorneys, physicians, nursing consultants, a pharmacist, and nursing home specialists.

The book is composed of four specialized sections: Part One discusses legal strategies you can utilize during the investigation and pretrial of a nursing home case. Part Two explains the liability issues that may arise in a nursing home setting and among its staff. Part Three describes common allegations that occur in a nursing home case such as falls, skin trauma, infections and more. Part Four provides tips for the defense with information on defense strategies and what nursing homes can do to prevent injuries. This comprehensive text is a legal and medical reference that no attorney or expert involved in a nursing home case can be without.

Nursing home liability and consequences

Topics Include:

Tampering with medical records
Medical defense
Defense attorney
Claims adjuster
Infections
Skin trauma
Falls

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About the Author:

Patricia W. Iyer, RN, M.S.N, is a medical surgical nurse expert witness and president of a legal nurse consulting firm, Med League Support Services in Flemington, NJ. Her firm provides assistance to attorneys who handle medical and nursing malpractice cases, personal injury, products liability and other types of cases. It also screens nursing home cases for merit.

She received her diploma in nursing from Muhlenberg Hospital School of Nursing in Plainfield, NJ, and her B.S.N and M.S.N from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She was certified as a legal nurse consultant by the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. Active in the Philadelphia and New Jersey chapters of AALNC, Ms. Iyer was elected to the board of directors of AALNC in 1998. She served a term as secretary and director at large, and will complete a three-year term as president elect, president and past president for AALNC for the years 2001to 2004.

Ms. Iyer's experience includes working as a staff nurse, an educator in a school of nursing, a director of nursing education in a hospital, and a nursing quality assurance coordinator. She is a noted national and international speaker on nursing documentation and liability issues, and has presented seminars to attorneys and paralegals. She has testified as an expert and fact witness.

Ms. Iyer has coauthored six nursing textbooks including a book on nursing documentation, Iyer and Camp, Nursing Documentation: A Nursing Process Approach, which was in its third edition in 1999. She was an associate editor of the Principles and Practices of Legal Nurse Consulting, 1997.

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