Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC, Patricia Iyer Associates, Avoid Medical Errors, LLC and Med League Support Services, Inc.:"Patricia Iyer Associates provides legal nurse consultants with the critical information they need to succeed in their roles. Avoid Medical Errors teaches the public what they need to know to stay healthy and to be informed patients and not victims of medical errors. It provides a free magazine for the public, Avoid Medical Errors Magazine. Med League Support Services, Inc. assists attorneys with the medical issues of their cases. We specialize in medical malpractice and personal injury cases, and supply expert witnesses and medical analysis in the form of timelines, chronologies and medical summaries."
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Carol J. Rhodes RN, LNC, Medical-Legal Remedies Inc (MLR):"Medical-Legal Remedies Inc (MLR) provides medical-legal Litigation Support Services for Legal Professionals that include Legal Nurse Consulting, Paralegal Litigation Support, a Medical Information Service called Virtual Legal Nurse and Medical Expert Referral Service for Attorneys, Insurance Companies, Hospital Risk Managers, Government, and Claims Management. MLR MLR's Paralegal Staff and Legal Nurse work together as a team to assist our legal clients with comprehensive medical-legal litigation issues and are committed to serve clients by offering our extensive experience and expertise to provide specialized high quality medical-legal litigation support services. By utilizing Medical-Legal Remedies Inc Paralegal/Legal Nurse Team allows the litigator to control costs and increase revenues while securing the competitive advantage with superior work products. So whether your firm or company needs a Paralegal, a Legal Nurse, or both - MLR will assist your firm or company with any medical-legal litigation case project."
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Jacksonville, FL 32250
(904) 223-3969
Carol@JaxLegalNurse.com or Carol@VirtualLegalNurse.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-j-rhodes/30/81b/685
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Nursing Malpractice Case Studies:

June 20, 1999: Organ Donation Informed Consent, Is A Single Parent's Sufficient?
Organ donors are in high demand.  Frequently intended recipients can wait a lifetime for the critical matching organ.  In this case, two nurses obtained a consent from a child's mother.  When the father later expressed his disagreement, the child's corneas had been harvested and it was too late.
Andrews v. Alabama Eye Bank, 727 S. 2d 62 –AL (1999)
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/clinical.cases/062099.htm

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Be Informed: Questions To Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR, Rockville, MD.

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Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP):"The statement on informed consent, parental permission, and patient assent has a long and extraordinary history. The first draft of this document, prepared by William G. Bartholome, MD, was presented to the original American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Bioethics in 1985. Bill put his soul into the manuscript and has watched over it carefully ever since. Now, a decade later, those who have worked on its continued development and urged its adoption as Academy policy applaud its publication. No one is more gratified than its primary author and champion. Those who have had the privilege to know Dr Bartholome share his sense of accomplishment, but cannot help but experience a cruel sense of irony. Just as the work Bill considers his most important contribution has become available for public appreciation, Dr Bartholome suffers from a serious illness that threatens his life."
The American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Boulevard
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098 USA
847/434-4000 847/434-8000 (Fax)
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/pediatrics;95/2/314

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Tips on Informed Consent: Office for Protection from Research Risks:"The process of obtaining informed consent must comply with the requirements of 45 CFR 46.116. The documentation of informed consent must comply with 45 CFR 46.117. The following comments may help in the development of an approach and proposed language by investigators for obtaining consent and its approval by IRBs: Informed consent is a process, not just a form. Information must be presented to enable persons to voluntarily decide whether or not to participate as a research subject. It is a fundamental mechanism to ensure respect for persons through provision of thoughtful consent for a voluntary act. The procedures used in obtaining informed consent should be designed to educate the subject population in terms that they can understand. Therefore, informed consent language and its documentation (especially explanation of the study's purpose, duration, experimental procedures, alternatives, risks, and benefits) must be written in "lay language", (i.e. understandable to the people being asked to participate). The written presentation of information is used to document the basis for consent and for the subjects' future reference. The consent document should be revised when deficiencies are noted or when additional information will improve the consent process."
Office for Human Research Protections, Department of Health and Human Services
The Tower Building
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20852
OHRP E-Mail Address (301) 496-7005, ohrp@osophs.dhhs.gov
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/ictips.htm

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Informed Consent: A website by Eileen Marie Wayne, M.D.

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Oncology (Cancer):

Cancer Trials:"cancerTrials is a clinical trials information resource from the National Cancer Institute."
A Guide to Understanding Informed Consent:"A comprehensive guide to informed consent, including the history of informed consent and the system of protections as well as information on what to expect during the informed consent process."