By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, NWCC, FAND Obesity presents challenges to wound healing, but with knowledge and appropriate care interventions, we can provide optimal conditions to support the best possible outcome for every patient, no matter what size. The US obesity epidemic reached a new all-time high in 2016, according to newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Dr. Collins Answers Your Questions My Mother Has A Pressure Injury By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, NWCC, FAND Note: In the past, pressure injuries were sometimes called pressure ulcers, bed sores, or decubitus ulcers. My mother lives in a nursing home and has a pressure injury. Was this caused by poor medical care? Maybe. However, some individuals are more ...
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By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, NWCC, FAND Nutrition is frequently conjoined to wound care lawsuits because patients often lose weight so it is important to thoroughly document nutrition interventions and education. Most pressure injury lawsuits begin as just that – a lawsuit initiated due to an acquired pressure injury. Usually the wound in question never healed to closure, became ...
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By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, FAPWCA, FAND The battle between optimal medical care and patient rights is one to fight with empathy and finesse to keep it out of the courtroom. I recently reviewed a lawsuit filed by the family of a patient* with a spinal cord injury. The patient was involved in a car accident and sustained multiple ...
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By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, NWCC, FAND The new year is quickly approaching, and most of us are reflecting and setting goals for 2017. Here’s a simple plan for 2017 that outlines what you must do to minimize the risks of practice. As wound care practitioners, our main goal is to heal wounds as quickly and painlessly as possible. ...
By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, NWCC, FAND Most lawsuits start not because of poor medical care but because families believe promises were made and broken and they are angry. If you speak to any health care attorney about the proliferation of lawsuits against hospitals, nursing homes, and health care providers (HCPs) over the last decade or so, you will ...
