Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, FAPWCA, FAND
Some healthcare providers are working in underperforming facilities, and they need to discuss how to improve outcomes before it becomes a matter of legal record.
“I didn’t have any special training in wounds. No one else wanted to do it, so I said okay.”
“The weekends were really bad. We only had a few people working weekends.”
“I know some of the patients didn’t get turned all day.”
“We always were running out of supplies, so I improvised.”
All of these confessions, or truths, are from real life depositions of nurses who were working in facilities that patients were suing because they developed wounds. These nurses were not trying to hurt their facility in any way or stymie the defense team, but were simply telling the truth in their opinion.
