RiskManager

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    Career Change

    RiskManager replied to vpollic1's topic in General Nursing

    Mrs. RiskManager, the elementary school teacher with 25 years experience, endorses the comments of Pixierose and AliNajaCat above. Having said that however, she loves her career and working with the...
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    Nursing Students Looked at my EMR... HIPAA?

    RiskManager replied to femnursingstudent's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Under the HIPAA regs, you can request a list of disclosures of your medical records: other parties outside of the facility to whom your PHI has been provided to. However, this situation does not fall...
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    Can I lose license over f word?

    RiskManager replied to Angieadore's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    With all of my experience working with various BONs, I can tell you that if the BON took action on a complaint about swearing (A) they would have no time for any other cases; and (B) 97.2 % (this...
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    Things LTC Nurses wish EMTs and Paramedics would understand.

    RiskManager replied to downsouthlaff's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^I wonder how many true paramedics are making $ 15/hour. Here in the greater Seattle area, an actual paramedic (EMT-P) working for a fire service is averaging $ 60,000 and if you work for Seattle,...
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    Independent contractor advice

    RiskManager replied to Quedeezy's topic in Advanced Practice

    I would double-check on that: is the physician paying for a separate policy for you, or are you going to be covered as his employee? If you are being covered as an employee, I would think that would...
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    Independent contractor advice

    RiskManager replied to Quedeezy's topic in Advanced Practice

    From my perspective as a risk manager, make sure that you have your own malpractice policy that provides primary coverage for your work as an independent contractor. Since you won't be an employee of...
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    Take a pay cut to go to office

    RiskManager replied to AJ1980's topic in General Nursing

    Be sure to run the numbers first on health insurance: covering two adults and two children is probably going to run into the hundreds of dollars per
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    Things LTC Nurses wish EMTs and Paramedics would understand.

    RiskManager replied to downsouthlaff's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^You are spot on: we are told this is a corporate requirement to call 911. We are trying to work with the corporate office but with little success so
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    Foreign-trained physicans have lower patient mortality

    RiskManager posted a topic in General Nursing

    Medscape: Medscape Access Forbes Welcome Just after we finished mulling over if female physicians had lower patient mortality than male physicians, comes this study looking at US trained vs. non-US...
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    Foreign-trained physicans have lower patient mortality

    RiskManager replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    Being an evidence-based kind of guy, my path forward is clear: I need to find a female internist trained in
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    Things LTC Nurses wish EMTs and Paramedics would understand.

    RiskManager replied to downsouthlaff's topic in General Nursing

    I do risk management consulting for our County EMS division, and the big issue up here now is LTC calling 911 to pick up a patient who has fallen. This is not necessarily due to any injuries...
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    Malpractice/Liabilty Insurance

    RiskManager replied to dreamer42's topic in General Nursing

    https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/one-healthcare-risk-999441.html ^^^I generally recommend the CNA policy most commonly sold by NSO. The Liberty Mutual policy sold by ProLiability is...
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    How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    RiskManager replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    As they taught me in business school, and as I subsequently saw in the budget process, about 66-70% of typical business operating costs are personnel costs: wages and
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    Nursing Students Looked at my EMR... HIPAA?

    RiskManager replied to femnursingstudent's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You can contact the facility compliance, privacy or risk officer or any member of senior leadership. As noted above, there is likely a phone hotline you can call or file an anonymous incident report...
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    How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    RiskManager replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    Mr. RiskManager works in a profession dominated by women, and my salary no doubt reflects that. Given the relatively few jobs in my profession, the ability to negotiate pay is somewhat
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    AN.com's Soap Opera, "Generic Hospital"

    RiskManager replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    The resemblance is
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    AN.com's Soap Opera, "Generic Hospital"

    RiskManager replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    I want to be the Ted Buckland character. Not much of a
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    Participating in Protests?

    RiskManager replied to wanna_be's topic in General Nursing

    If one of my nursing staff asked me this, I would give the following advice: 1. Please do not wear your work ID or any clothing that identifies you as an employee of XYZ 2. If you are interviewed by...
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    Good wrist-watch w/ second hand?

    RiskManager replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    Amazon.com: Casio Men's
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    Lawyer Advice

    RiskManager replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    From my perspective as a risk manager, you should hire one, especially if you are in front of the BON for substance
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    How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    RiskManager replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    Mrs. RiskManager, the elementary school teacher, says these kind of debates go on in the teaching profession as
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    Best Insurance? Or Don't bother at all?

    RiskManager replied to NattyLPNLMT's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    ^^^I generally recommend the CNA policy most commonly sold by NSO. The Liberty Mutual policy sold by ProLiability is also an option, but CNA has the largest market share by far. Just make an informed...
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    Liability insurance

    RiskManager replied to NewbieFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And yet, at the end of the day, your employer's insurance covered you for the liability and patient injury caused by you or the other employees. Generally speaking, the insurance company would not...
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    2% of physicians account for half of the malpractice payments

    RiskManager posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    2% of Physicians Involved in Half of Malpractice Settlements | Medpage Today The Detection, Analysis, and Significance of Physician Clust... : Journal of Patient Safety A very interesting study. A...
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    BON investigaton

    RiskManager replied to dialysisrnmom's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In regards to the bolded sentence and your malpractice insurance company, they are not going to be doing any of this. Writing threatening letters is not something that is a covered exposure under your...