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A 57-year-old nursing home resident with a history of dementia climbed out the open window in her room, falling 30feet to the ground below. The woman suffered severe injury as a result of the fall, and a jury awarded the plaintiff $276,164 in damages.
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The ideal time for a patient to learn about the potential need to deactivate the electrical shock feature of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is when the decision to implant the device is made, says Chuck Wellman, MD, FAAHPM, chief medical officer at Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, OH.
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This is the second of a two-part series examining some of the regulatory and financial changes faced by hospices during recent years.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. on April 30 ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps in use in the United States.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps.
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While there are certain scenarios regarding patient care when what is written in the law might seem to counter what is ethically appropriate, in general, the law and ethics complement each other in the health care arena, according to ethical experts interviewed by AHC Media, publisher of Hospice Management Advisor.
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Patient care is always the hospice nurse's first priority rather than documentation, but in today's legal and regulatory environment, documentation of all aspects of nursing care is critical.
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In a memorandum, President Obama has asked Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to develop guidance for hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid to ensure that patients' advance directives are respected.
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The patient was dying of lung cancer and planned to die at home with his family nearby. Instead, he was raced to the emergency department as he died because his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) kept firing an electrical impulse to restore his heart rhythm.
