COME ONE, COME ALL!! Nurses, paralegals, attorneys.....and anyone else interested in learning about legal nurse consulting. We will have a dynamic speaker, Diana Fletcher, coming to talk about stress in the healthcare field. There will be a great dinner with an open bar. Diana is bringing her books to sell. This is set to be a great night of networking with new and experienced legal nurse consultants. Please feel free to bring a guest. Register at www.aalncpittsburgh.org. 20th Anniversary Dinner Bucca di Beppo, Station Square Wednesday, August 10th 6p-9p Call 412-939-3424 right away to register! ...read more
By Camdan Consulting, LLC August 06, 2011
Wrong-site surgeries risk reduced during pilot project Oversights, including sloppy scheduling and the choice of marker, can result in tragic mistakes. ByKevin B. O'Reilly,amednews staff.Posted July 18, 2011. PRINT| E-MAIL| RESPOND| REPRINTS| SHARE The Joint Commission in June cited early progress on a pilot project designed to identify and prevent the problems that can lead to wrong-site and wrong-patient surgeries.The organizations participating in the project, including La Veta Surgical Center in Orange, Calif., and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia, were able to reduce the proportion of surgical cases in which there was a process-related defect that could result in a wrong procedure. That proportion was reduced from a baseline of 52% to 19%.LinksSeerelated contentBecause wrong procedures are so rare, the pilot project is using these intermediate process metrics to gauge how well hospitals and surgical centers are doing at preventing surgery mix-ups. That means that the organizations taking part in the project reduced their risk of having a wrong-site and wrong-patient surgery.In 2004, the Joint Commission mandated a three-step "universal protocol" requiring physicians and other health professionals to perform a pre-surgery verification process, mark the correct site for the procedure and conduct a "timeout" discussion as a final check before the procedure begins. "It turns out that this is a much more complicated problem than it might seem to be at first," said Mark R. Chassin, MD, president of the Joint Commission. "There isn't a simple way to prevent wrong-site surgery. It takes a comprehensive approach."To read the full article go tohttp://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/07/18/prsb0718.htm ...read more
By Camdan Consulting, LLC July 18, 2011
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By Camdan Consulting, LLC June 28, 2011
Physical violence has major effects on children; whether it directly involves the children or not. Violence on parents or other children also impacts a child. Often parents feel that the child is unaware of what is going on; however, that is generally not the case. Children hear and see much more than... ...read more
Aside from the physical and emotional abuse they have endured, battered women are also faced with many other challenges. Assessing the social risks of battered women is an important step in determining the resources that they are lacking and what is needed to live independently. ...read more