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Litigating the Nursing Home Case, Second Edition
Litigating the Nursing Home Case, Second Edition
Our Price: $159.95

By James T. O'Reilly and Katharine Van Tassel

Brand new edition! Here’s the step-by-step guidance you need to successfully litigate a nursing home case. This book explains the nursing home environment – its organization and structure – and details the responsibilities and liability of management, nurses and physicians. It then provides detailed discussions of the various bases for nursing home claims: ulcers and infections; falls, wandering and escape, assault and abuse, improper patient restraints, drug errors, malnutrition and dehydration, improper expulsion for payment issues, and more.

Finally, the book gives you detailed instructions and advice on evaluating plaintiffs, assembling a complaint, motion practice, challenging arbitration provisions in contracts, piercing the LLC structure, witnesses, documentation, causes of action, damages, trial procedure, insurance coverage, and liens and offsets.

This book is a must for any lawyer who represents nursing home patients! One volume, softbound, 468 pages. Published in 2014. more info
Medical-Legal Aspects of Long-Term Care
Medical-Legal Aspects of Long-Term Care
Our Price: $95.00

Here’s a guide to nursing homes and the care they provide that will be an essential resource for any lawyer handing a case involving s nursing home injury.

The book provides a useful introduction to the nursing home industry, resident assessment practices, care planning, and the federal survey process. Then it provides detailed discussions of what can go wrong in nursing homes and why, including problems with understaffing, pain management, dementia, dysphagia, adverse drug events, nutrition and hydration, wound care, bedsores, psychopharmacology drugs, falls and fall-related injuries, bed safety and physical restraints, and physical abuse and neglect.

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One volume, casebound, 384 pages. more info