RiskManager

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    Attorney contacted me about lawsuit

    RiskManager replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

    Is this the attorney representing the patient (plaintiff counsel) or the attorney representing the hospital (defense counsel)? It is your choice as to if you want a voluntary meeting, but as a fact...
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    Caregiver sibling abusive to bed-ridden grandfather

    RiskManager replied to millmick30's topic in General Nursing

    If one of my clients called me with this story, using the same language as the OP, I would direct them to immediately call your state equivalent of Adult Protective Services. The OP is I assume a...
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    Any NPs partners/part-owners w/ physician?

    RiskManager replied to GoodNP's topic in Advanced Practice

    There are a number of states with similar laws. These laws are generally described as 'corporate practice of medicine':...
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    Do you text your patients?

    RiskManager replied to automotiveRN67's topic in Advanced Practice

    From a risk management and compliance perspective, I am generally not a fan of making or receiving patient texts containing clinical information. Texting them about appointment reminders or the like...
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    Family with access to hospital/clinic EMR

    RiskManager replied to Princess Bubblegum's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You should file an event/incident report. This is the best way to ensure that the Compliance/Privacy people are notified. Speaking as the person who has to follow up on these reports, the first thing...
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    LVN on probation needing malpractice insurance.

    RiskManager replied to kgutierrez1183's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I posted a reply in your other thread on the
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    LVN on probation needing malpractice insurance.

    RiskManager replied to kgutierrez1183's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I am afraid you might be out of luck. NSO is the insurance agent for CNA, and current licensure sanctions generally are grounds for the CNA underwriters to decline the application. ProLiability is...
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    Malpractice insurance gray area

    RiskManager replied to peacelillie's topic in General Nursing

    CNA, who writes the insurance sold by NSO, is more interested in your scope of practice. In your case, since you are not working or practicing as a NP, I would put in for the standard nursing...
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    Pursue NP or PA for ER?

    RiskManager replied to Smwright19's topic in General Students

    In the context of my risk management consulting practice, I do some ER and EMS work, primarily on the West Coast. It is my impression that PA providers are far more common in West Coast emergency...
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    Sexual Comment from Boss???

    RiskManager replied to headtotoewounds's topic in General Nursing

    As a middle-aged white male healthcare executive who has gone to all the harassment seminars and who works in a predominantly female environment, I did not take this as a sexual comment, nor did my...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    My linked article goes into the concept of 'respondeat superior' and how the employer is legally liable for the acts of current and former employees. Speaking as a claims manager who does hospital...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    You are referring to the difference between the two major types of malpractice policies: claims-made vs. occurrence. The nursing malpractice insurance policies are occurrence: any claims that occur...
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    Pros and cons of nursing insurance

    RiskManager replied to dragonfire123's topic in General Nursing

    You need to realize that as long as you were an employee of the hospital/healthcare facility the day that the adverse event occurred, you are covered by the hospital/healthcare facility's insurance,...
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    Pros and cons of nursing insurance

    RiskManager replied to dragonfire123's topic in General Nursing

    As noted in my article linked above, it won't be done by your nursing malpractice insurance company, either. Any licensure defense coverage in your policy is generally only triggered by the BON filing...
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    Pros and cons of nursing insurance

    RiskManager replied to dragonfire123's topic in General Nursing

    In my article linked above, see my comments regarding litigation being a search for deep pockets, and how having an insurance policy can make one a deep pocket through being named in the lawsuit as a...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    Susie2310, I have gone to some of the seminars put on by the asset protection attorneys, who advertise shielding your assets by offshoring, incorporating, blind trusting, etc., and telling the...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    In the typical scenario you describe, the nurse would not be liable for any defense or indemnity costs. I have cases all the time in which a nurse did not follow protocol or policy and procedure but...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    In the liability world, we call people with no insurance, no liquid assets, and no appreciable future income stream to seize or attach 'judgement proof'. There is no financial recovery and therefore...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    Speaking as someone with a disability (bilateral hearing loss), I don't believe the presence of a disability in and of itself would be reason to purchase higher limits of malpractice insurance. If the...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^Let me put in a plug for asking your facility risk manager for advice and counsel on these sort of risk management issues. This is why they are paid the medium-sized bucks: to help and assist the...
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    One Healthcare Risk Manager's View Of Individual Nursing Malpractice Insurance

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry for the delayed response; we have been moving these last several days and I have been away from the computer. The only way one would find out if a nurse has insurance would be to ask. The...
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    Scope of Practice Question

    RiskManager replied to bon_bon's topic in General Nursing

    I like the answer above and I would only add this to it: I would intervene directly with the person immediately if I thought patient safety was being
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    Do you have Malpractice Ins?

    RiskManager replied to smoup's topic in Psychiatric

    See my article on the coverage limitations of nursing malpractice insurance. Some of the comments here are consistent with the confusion over what an individual policy covers and when you get an...
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    OSHA Safety Officer

    RiskManager replied to Kemba236's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I have done risk management consulting in the CHC environment. In terms of additional training, the CSP credential (Workplace Safety and Certification | Board of Certified Safety Professionals) and...
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    Urgent Csection

    RiskManager replied to Tink1987's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As the risk manager, it gives me all sorts of warm fuzzies that you stopped the line and called for imaging to rule in/rule out an incorrect count prior to closure. This is exactly what I want my...