How A Legal Nurse Consultant Will Help Turn The Tables
Legal Nurse Consultants are nurses proficient in assessing injury or illness, reviewing and interpreting medical records, and assessing the quality of patient care, in the setting of civil or criminal proceedings.
Legal Nurse Consultants benefit both plaintiff and defendant attorneys during cases:
- Case analysis to determine merit
- Assess the alleged damages and/or injuries
- Attend independent medical examinations (IMEs)
- Identify factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages and/or injuries
- Define deviations from, and adherences to, the applicable standards of care
- Detect relevant records, policies and procedures, essential documents and tangible items
- Summarize, translate and interpret medical records
- Display significant issues along a time line of events
- Medical records review to identify deviations from or adherence to Standards of Care
- Identify issues of tampering with the medical records
- Identify and recommend potential defendants
- Recognizing key components of the records, Utilizing them for demonstrative evidence
- Applying policy and procedure or standards of care data as demonstrative evidence
- Employing appropriate authoritative text material for demonstrative evidence
- Producing visuals for information specific to the case
- Prepare testifying experts
- Compose direct interrogatories and cross examination interrogatories
- Appraise opposing counsel depositions, Formulate rebuttals
- Prepare chronologies for key source records based on each expert’s testimony
Legal Nurse Consultants have expertise to assemble details with objective medical understandings of an event and interpret them utilizing a prompt, systematic and cost-effective method.
For those unfamiliar with the industry, understanding terminology in records can be impossible.
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The Legal Nurse Consultant will highlight what is missing from records based on experience and training. Non-medically trained staff will miss this.
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