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1)
Which elements are inherent in the professional role of a legal nurse consultant?
Desire to be an advocate for the underserved
Nursing skills, knowledge, and expertise
Desire to change profession
Imagination and the willingness to accept a challenge
2)
The most significant service that the legal nurse consultant provides is:
Serving as a liaison between attorneys.
Interpreting the medical record.
Drafting legal documents.
Interviewing potential paralegals for the attorney’s practice.
3)
Common practices in the roles of both the RN and the legal nurse consultant are:
Encouraging a patient and family to discuss their concerns and seek legal advice
Remaining clinically active and managing staffing patterns.
Researching current literature, critiquing care, and making decisions independently.
Coordinating the discharge plan of care.
4)
As a legal nurse consultant, what is the most important skill you bring to law firms, insurance companies, utilization review firms, government agencies, and private corporations?
Communication skills with physicians
Knowledge of nursing and the inner processes of the health care system
Technical skills for working in a specialty nursing unit
Knowledge of how to create an electronic medical record
5)
Which is true regarding the importance of translating and interpreting the medical record?
The legal nurse consultant can read between the lines and determine what information is missing.
The legal nurse consultant provides medical and nursing opinions based only on their personal nursing experience.
Day to day the RN has about the same amount of interaction with the medical record as the physician does.
The physician’s handwriting is usually legible to everyone but the nurse.
6)
Which phrase best describes the legal nurse consultant’s role as educator to the attorney?
Identifies and interviews key witnesses best suited for the case.
Identifies the amount of damages to be awarded in a case.
Increases the attorney’s understanding of the record in order to support the case effectively.
Assists the attorney with deciding the number of cases to take that month.
7)
Which service provided by the legal nurse consultant offers a bottom-line opinion to the attorney about a case in question?
Defining the standard of care
Organizing the medical record
Interviewing a witness
Screening the case for merit
8)
Which is the most important factor related to screening a case for merit?
The legal nurse consultant is a protector of healthcare providers.
The legal nurse consultant impacts the economics involved in a case.
The legal nurse consultant gives the attorney a preliminary legal opinion.
The legal nurse consultant acts as a vigilante for injured people.
9)
As a legal nurse consultant, your primary role is to:
Represent nursing standards and uphold the standards of the nursing profession.
Organize and paginate the medical record.
Represent all healthcare providers involved in the case.
Help identify areas of the nursing profession that need to change.
10)
Which of the following makes a legal nurse consultant most valuable to an attorney when an expert witness is needed?
Ability to act and dress professionally for trial
Ability to locate the highest paid expert witness
Possession of a contact list of physicians and nurses appropriately regarded as experts
Possession of years of experience working in the healthcare arena
11)
Which statement is true regarding the legal nurse consultant’s role in interviewing clients and key witnesses?
The client and key witnesses are usually more comfortable talking to the attorney.
Nurses lack strong interviewing skills.
Attorneys’ legal skills make them able to interview the client better than nurses.
Nurses are a natural at interviewing because they talk to patients and their families everyday.
12)
On what kinds of cases do attorneys benefit from the services of a legal nurse consultant?
Any case involving health, illness, or injury issues
Any case defining the standard of care for nursing, medicine, and other healthcare providers
Cases involving medical malpractice only
Criminal, breach of contract, and property damage cases
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