Webinar: The Legal Aspects: Skin Integrity at the Brink of Death
Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT
Category: Webinar
The Legal Aspects: Skin Integrity at the Brink of Death Objectives
Presenter Sandra Higelin, MSN, RN, CWCN, CLNC, is the owner of N.I.A. LLC, Consulting Services. As a Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, a Certified Wound Care Nurse, and a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, she offers geriatric health care consultations, wound care consultations, patient advocacy services, and education programs in wound care and geriatric issues. She also works as an Expert Witness in Elder Abuse litigation. Sandra is an active member of the Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Association, has served on the WOCN education committee and was a past Education Coordinator for PCR. She is also active in the National Association of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, the Gerontological Nurses Association, and the Southern California Association for Health Care Risk Managers. As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Sandra provides expert witness services to both plaintiff and defense attorneys across the nation. She has vast experience in wound care prevention and management and is an experienced speaker, having done presentation on multiple wound care topics. She is also the author of the Nursing Diagnosis ‘Adult Failure to Thrive’, authored chapter 18, “ Pressure Ulcers, in the “Gerontological Nursing Competencies For Care 3rd Edition, 2014” and Co-authored chapter 23, “Evaluating Forensic Cases in the Legal Nurse Consulting Principles 3rd Edition, 2010”. |