The Quagmire of Social Determinants of Health for the Legal Nursing Consultant: Evaluating Failure to Thrive.

When healthcare expires all potential diagnoses for Failure to Thrive (FTT), they often enter the realm of "neglect." A reportable crime, child neglect, involves parents and guardians, families, medical personnel, child protection services, and legal professionals. The medical record documents harm,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 15 - 26
Autores principales: McPeters, Steadman Lee, Bryant, Pamela Harris, Speck, Patricia M.
Formato: case study CEU pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants Fall2021
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Sumario:When healthcare expires all potential diagnoses for Failure to Thrive (FTT), they often enter the realm of "neglect." A reportable crime, child neglect, involves parents and guardians, families, medical personnel, child protection services, and legal professionals. The medical record documents harm, and a quagmire occurs between multiple medical diagnoses associated with the process of starvation, systemic and provider bias about obvious Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). When "neglect" is a medical diagnosis of elimination and SDoH influences provider-systemic bias, Legal Nurse Consultants employ strategies for separating the quagmire necessary to help establish the actual cause(s) of harm.