Legal Nurse Consulting


What is a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant?

        "The legal nurse consultant is a licensed registered nurse who performs a critical analysis of healthcare facts and issues and their outcomes for the legal profession, healthcare professions, and others as appropriate. With a strong educational and experiential background, the legal nurse consultant is qualified to assess adherence to standards of healthcare practice as it applies to the nursing and healthcare professions."
                                                                           .... American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC)

We offer free initial telephone consultations focused on your medically-related case, with a specific plan of action to meet your particular needs. Our legal nurse consultants are Registered Nurses who, by virtue of specialization and expertise, provides our clients with qualified opinions based on standards of care, interpretation of medical records, research, and experience in healthcare on medical-legal issues.

Initial screening and critical analysis of cases for merit
Review and identify relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures and other essential documents to help you recognize non-meritorious cases early and help save you time and money

Define Standards of Care, and identify the adherence and deviations from the applicable Standards of Care. Organize, tab, and paginate medical records to provide you with a clear overview of the case. Screen medical and nursing related cases for merit. Assess damages or injuries to identify causation of the damages to strengthen your position in case presentation. Screen cases to help identify and recommend potential defendants and witnesses for your case

Expert Witness Search
Identify types of expert witnesses needed to provide informed opinions for your case. Locate and interview expert witnesses to help prepare the expert for deposition and trial, thereby bolstering your position

Report Writing

• Develop written reports for use as study tool to enhance your understanding of the medical aspects of the case. Summarize, translate, and interpret medical records to provide you with clear and concise understanding of the case with all medical terminology explained

• Prepare questions for interrogatories or depositions. Develop timelines or chronologies surrounding the case

Identify and recommend Potential Defendants

• Analyze and compare expert witness reports and other work products for strong case presentation

• Assist with mediation and arbitration

• Develop and defend Life Care Plans

• Assist with discovery issues and help formulate questions for deposition and interrogatories

Literature Search

• Conduct in-depth literature searches to provide theoretical foundation for case development

• Integrate literature and standard guidelines into case analysis to provide accurate interpretation of the case

• Analyze the validity and reliability of research studies for use by plaintiffs and defendants

Cases on which Legal Nurse Consultants are qualified to consult:

• Negligence

• Product Liability

• Workers’ compensation and Workplace Injury

• Toxic Torts

• Criminal

• Medical Malpractice (consulting expert only)

• Nursing Malpractice

• Expert Testimony
   

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