Teaches the use of nursing process with emphasis on nursing diagnosis. Utilizes pedagogical features, case examples and specific guidelines. New chapter on Legal/Ethical and 1990 Nursing Diagnosis.

Nursing Process and Nursing Diagnosis

Patricia W. Iyer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

W.B.Saunders Co.

NURSING DOCUMENTATION: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH clearly and concisely provides guidelines for appropriate and careful documentation of care. Accurate documentation shows managed care companies that patients receive adequate care and that health care providers are controlling costs and resources. In addition, it plays a large role in how third party payors make payment or denial decisions. This new edition includes the latest changes and trends in nursing documentation as related to the newly restructured healthcare environment. Special attention focuses on the latest documentation issues specific to specialty settings, such as acute care, home care, and long-term care, and a variety of clinical specialties, such as obstetrics, pediatrics, and critical care. * Applies principles of documentation using practical examples, scenarios, and case studies. * Organizes documentation concerns based on the five-step nursing process. * Incorporates the most current JCAHO standards and NANDA taxonomy as they relate to documenting care. * Includes Home Care Documentation section, which provides information about unique considerations in documentation of home care, such as proper documentation for reimbursement, computerized patient records, and continuity of services. * Contains Long-Term Care Documentation chapter, which focuses on specific documentation information for long-term care, including proper documentation for Medicare, Resident Assessment Protocols, and interdisciplinary care planning. * Written in a clear and concise manner.

Nursing Documentation: A Nursing Process Approach

Medical Books

Nursing

Mosby-Year Book

Designed to meet the needs of both novice and advanced practitioners, the first edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice established standards and defined the core curriculum of legal nurse consulting. It also guided the development of the certification examination administered by the American Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Board. The extensive revisions and additions in Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition make this bestselling reference even more indispensable. The most significant change is the inclusion of 15 new chapters, each of which highlights an important aspect of legal nurse consulting practice: Entry into the Specialty Certification Nursing Theory: Applications to Legal Nurse Consulting Elements of Triage for Medical Malpractice Evaluating Nursing Home Cases Principles of Evaluating Personal Injury Cases Common Mechanisms of Injury in Personal Injury Cases ERISA and HMO Litigation The LNC as Case Manager Report Preparation Locating and Working with Expert Witnesses The Role of the LNC in Preparation of Technical Demonstrative Evidence Marketing Growing a Business Business Ethics Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition presents up-to-date, practical information on consulting in a variety of practice environments and legal areas. Whether you are an in-house LNC or you work independently, this book is your definitive guide to legal nurse consulting.

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, Second Edition

Amer Asso Of Legal Nurse Consultants

Exercise & Fitness

CRC-Press

Falls are a widespread public health problem, affecting many age groups from children through older adults, from public to patient settings. In the healthcare setting, all persons involved in the delivery of healthcare – from administration through hands-on healthcare providers and professionals – have a responsibility for providing patient safety in preventing falls. This shared goal and responsibility for providing patient safety and in preventing falls. This shared goal and responsibility for fall prevention (and management) is echoed in the Joint Commission Standards – affecting all participating hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, ambulatory care settings or any place where patient falls can occur. Learn how to prevent or manage falls with current information and case studies. Learn how to analyze liability associated with falls.

Falls Handbook: Clinical and Medical-Legal Perspectives of Falls Across the Lifespan

Gray-Miceli DNSc, Deanna

Capezuti PhD, R, Elizabeth

Lawson III, J, William

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Written for the healthcare professional, claims adjuster and trial attorney, this book provides detailed information on how to analyze pain and suffering cases. You will read chapters written by legal nurse consultants, physicians and attorneys and see how pain and suffering patients and cases are viewed and treated on all sides. Each section of this valuable text is designed to fully explain each aspect of this hot topic in health care. The by explaining to you how to understand medical records and commonly used pain assessment tools. You will then focus on high-risk populations, pain and suffering in children and cancer pain. The last section is dedicated to your presentation of pain and suffering cases in the courtroom. By combining the clinical information in the first two sections with the legal strategies in the last section, this book becomes a must read for any attorney litigating medical, nursing, or nursing home negligence cases.

Medical-Legal Aspects of Pain and Suffering

Rules & Procedures

Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc.

Medical Legal Aspects of Medical Records, Second Edition is the reference of choice for cases involving medical records and their use. The book has been divided into two volumes for ease of finding the information you need. Both volumes have been updated to give you the latest information, as recent changes in legislation and technology have changed the medical records process. The authors have designed this work to give extensive information on the HIPPA policies, standards initiatives, legal use of records, billing and coding, and computerization of records and record keeping systems and how they apply in forensic situations.Use Volume I to get a comprehensive overview of the medical records process. In any health care situation, records are made, and each situation presents its own unique aspects and challenges. This book explores the many aspects of medical records that apply across all specialties. It is specially designed to complement Volume II.Use Volume II for in-depth information on many clinical specialties. This book informs you of the specific nature of clinical specialty records and hospital areas of specialty are covered, including chapters on dental, chiropractic, nursing home, pediatrics, medication, and home care. It is specially designed to complement Volume I. Used jointly, these two Volumes are a powerful tool for your practice and are exceptionally valuable to all those in the legal profession or in law enforcement who deal with medical records on a regular basis.

Medical Legal Aspects of Medical Records, Second Edition

Barbara J. Levin

Specialties

An outstanding reference for the attorney, legal nurse consultant, insurance claim adjuster, healthcare risk manager, or healthcare facility leader involved in a nursing malpractice claim, the fourth edition of Nursing Malpractice brings you a wealth of information and resources for your case. This extensively revised and updated edition of a classic covers the spectrum of the nursing process from patient admittance to lawsuit. Packed with tips and techniques this volume reveals typical ways in which nurses try to cover up their mistakes, shows how nurses are caught in a difficult position between the insurance company lawyers and hospital procedures, and gives a comprehensive overview of nursing responsibilities. Volume I (Foundations of Nursing Malpractice Claims) of Nursing Malpractice, Fourth Edition covers broad range topics such as patient safety, nursing practice, damages, and litigation of nursing malpractice claims. Included are new chapters on the view of the actuary and e-discovery. A unique blend of attorneys, nurse attorneys, nurse expert witnesses, legal nurse consultants, physicians, pharmacists, toxicologists, jury consultants, actuaries and legal photographers contributed chapters for this book. This text remains the only one on the market written for attorneys on nursing malpractice using such a broad base of expert authors. In short, this comprehensive book is an excellent and important addition to your nursing malpractice library.

Nursing Malpractice: Foundations of Nursing Malpractice Claims

Victoria Powell

Kathleen C. Ashton

Legal Theory & Systems

Lawyers & Judges Publishing

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