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Does Your Facility Have a Legal "Safety Net" For Wound Care Documentation?

June 18, 2015
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC Substandard documentation tops the list of mistakes for long-term care facilities. It involves "all hands in the chart" so to speak. This enco...

F-Tag 314 Compliance: An Example of Unavoidable Pressure Ulcer Documentation

April 7, 2016
By Terri Kolenich, RN, CWCA, AAPWCA It has been a long week. The CMS state survey team entered your facility Sunday afternoon at 2pm. Thursday is finally here and the state survey exit meeting is o...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care – Is That Ulcer Unavoidable or Not?

January 31, 2019
by Heidi H. Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON "If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed sore, it is generally the fault not...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care: Risk Factors for Unavoidable Ulcers

April 9, 2019
by Heidi H. Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than 17,000 lawsuits related to pressure ulcers (PUs) are filed annually in the United Sta...

The Hidden Challenges of Wound Care in Long-Term Care Facilities

December 10, 2015
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC In my role as a consultant and educator, I thought it would be interesting to acquire a handful of perspectives from wound care providers who ...

What Wound Care Physicians Need to Know About Working in Long-Term Care

December 11, 2014
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC As a traveling wound care educator for physicians, I am observing many changes within the state survey process for long-term care. Wound care ...
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