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AALNC 2008 National Educational Conference

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401: Role of the Legal Nurse Consultant in Correctional Health Care Litigation

Track : LNC Nursing issues

Program Code: 401

Date: Friday, April 11, 2008

Time: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM EST

Location: Grand Salons A-E

SPEAKER :

Joseph Paris, PhD MD CCHP Fellow of the SCP

Joe Paris is a chemist from Argentina who obtained an MD from Boston University in 1975. After four years of residency in Internal Medicine in Boston and in Worcester, Massachusetts, he became a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1979. After a few years in private practice, Joe entered correctional medicine in the Florida DOC in 1985 and treated thousands of correctional patients in various Florida State prisons. He was the first Florida correctional physician to prescribe AZT to an inmate. In 1991 he became Medical Director of the Florida Prison Hospital in Lake Butler where he treated inpatients and outpatients from all of Florida prisons. In 1995, he came to the Georgia Department of Corrections in Atlanta and became Statewide Medical Director, a title he retained in 1997 when the Medical College of Georgia entered a partnership with the Georgia Department of Corrections for the delivery of correctional health care throughout the Georgia prisons. He retired from the DOC at the end of 2005 and began part-time Public Health work with HIV patients. Joe is a founding member and Past President of the Society of Correctional Physicians. He is also Past President of the Florida Chapter of the American Correctional Health Services Association and a Board Member of the Certified Correctional Healthcare Professionals. In 2002 he received the Armond Start Award, the highest commendation of the SCP. He is the author of dozens of specialized correctional publications and has presented his work in over a hundred national meetings. He is the author of several chapters in the textbook Clinical Care in Corrections, first published in 1998 and reedited in 2005. Joe is in demand as a correctional health care consultant, a lecturer, a surveyor of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and as an expert witness in correctional health care litigation.

Description

Learning Objectives:

1. Assess the difference between civil rights (deliberate indifference) and malpractice correctional health care suits.

2. Explain applicable NCCHC or ACA prison or jail correctional health care standards.

The LNC has much to offer in the field of correctional healthcare litigation. However, basic principles must be understood, such as the difference between civil rights (deliberate indifference) and malpractice suits, prison or jail, NCCHC or ACA standards and the unique documentation in use in correctional healthcare. Dr. Paris will share his field experience of over 75 correctional healthcare cases for either the plaintiff or the defense and will highlight the various litigation phases, including discovery, preparation of summaries, depositions and trial appearances.

Audio Synchronized to PowerPoint

(Code: 401)

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This session is a part of:

CON2: Main Conference Session Compilation Access

CON: Full Access to All Sessions
(52.16 Nursing Contact Hours Available*; 56 Case Manager Certified Contact Hours Available*)
Conference attendees may only earn and claim nursing contact hours for those sessions that were not attended onsite in Tampa."

LNC Nursing issues Track (Attendees - $70 - Non-Attendees $140)

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(Code: 401)

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