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32 Services You Can Provide as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, you can apply your knowledge and understanding of medical, nursing and health-related issues to make the attorney's job easier, more efficient and more effective.
You are a medical insider who knows the inner workings of our complicated healthcare system firsthand. Your professional expertise as an RN and a legal nurse consultant qualifies you to provide the following services:
Assessing Medical Records and Analyzing the Case
- Identify, locate, review and interpret relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures, other documents and tangible items.
- Organize, tab and paginate medical records for easy reference.
- Prepare chronologies of the medical events involved in a case.
- Summarize, translate and interpret medical records.
- Identify issues of tampering with the medical records.
- Screen medical malpractice cases for merit.
- Identify, locate, summarize and interpret applicable standards of care.
- Identify adherences to and deviations from these standards.
- Identify causation issues, assess damages/injuries and identify contributing factors.
- Identify and recommend potential defendants.
- Develop written reports for the attorney's use as study tools.
Supporting the Attorney's Case
- Search and summarize medical and nursing literature and integrate results of your search into case analysis.
- Analyze the validity of research studies relied on by all parties.
- Coordinate and attend independent medical examinations.
- Help in developing life care plans.
- Expand the attorney's medical library.
Serving as the Attorney's Liaison
- Interview plaintiff and defense clients, key witnesses and experts.
- Consult with healthcare providers.
- Meet with other consultants and service providers on the attorney's behalf.
Working with Experts and Other Witnesses
- Identify types of testifying experts needed for the case.
- Find and communicate with appropriate expert witnesses for deposition and trial.
- Analyze potential experts' reports and other work product.
- Help prepare witnesses and experts for deposition and trial.
- Serve as an expert witness and testify to the nursing standard of care.
Assisting with Discovery and Preparing for Court
- Prepare questions for deposition or trial examination (direct or cross).
- Prepare interrogatories and requests for production.
- Review and draft responses to various legal documents and correspondence for the attorney's signature.
- Analyze and summarize depositions and past testimony.
- Assist with exhibit preparation and other demonstrative evidence.
- Attend courtroom proceedings when relevant.
- Coordinate and assist with facilitating focus groups and mock trials.
- Assist in resolution of cases through alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation.
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As a professional your job is to educate your attorney-client about what you can do for her. For more on defining your role as a CLNC® read this article by Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD
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