Adult Care Articles

Hospital beds are designed and constructed to provide safety, comfort, and mobility for a broad range of patients with varying conditions and treatment plans. While the adaptability and versatility of hospital beds and related safety devices allow caregivers to meet the diverse needs of their patients; care must be taken to ensure necessary user training, inspection protocols, and routine maintenance and safety checks are followed.

Falls are the most common type of incident associated with hospital beds, however pressure injuries and entrapments are also notable safety concerns. In this article, Christian Mongrain, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Durable Medical Equipment Expert, provides an overview of hospital bed injuries and proper safety.

In this article, the supervision, healthcare, and education experts at Robson Forensic provide an overview on the standard of care for providing food and fluid to individuals with dietary restrictions.

In this article, healthcare expert, Stacy Donnelly discusses nursing home neglect. The purpose of this article is to define neglect and its key components, explain the responsibility for a facility to investigate neglect once it has been reported, and to provide insight on how these investigations are approached from a forensic standpoint.

In this article, Registered Nurse and Healthcare Expert, Stacy Donnelly, RN, BSN discusses the process by which adverse medical events are evaluated by medical professionals and forensic experts. The article describes the concept of an adverse event and provides two models that are used to evaluate the quality of care and preventability of a specific incident.

The experts at Robson Forensic are frequently retained to investigate adverse events within healthcare and other managed care settings. Our experts approach these investigations from the perspectives of nurses, physical therapists, and other direct care professionals. We also have experts who specialize in the operations and administration of nursing homes, hospitals, and managed care facilities.

In this article, supervised care expert, Dr. Lisa Thorsen broadly discusses Plans of Care as they apply across a range of supervised care environments. The experts at Robson Forensic are regularly retained to evaluate the quality of care provided to individuals within educational, healthcare, and group living environments.

In this article, forensic document examiner, Mark Songer discusses the role of document analysis in elder care disputes. He provides relevant data on the scope of the problem and outlines his involvement in two such cases.

In this article, supervised care expert, Lisa A. Thorsen, Ed.D., C.R.C., C.P.S.I., introduces the framework by which organizations establish the policies and procedures to stem sexual abuse.