Legal Nurse Consulting Services
What a Legal Nurse Consultant can do for you
- Determination of the Nurse's Standard of Care
- Review cases to determine merit before a lawsuit begins
- Review cases that are already filed, for either plaintiff or defense, to provide useful chronologies of the records and concise reports on the medical and nursing issues
- Describe and/or summarize injuries and treatment
- Identify and review relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures and other essential documents
- Provide reports on research (literature search) to support the medical and nursing issues involved that may include:
- specific standards of care
- appropriate peer-reviewed journal articles
- authoritative text references
- Review medical records or other medical information for issues that have an impact on a legal matter
- Organize and analyze medical records and determine missing medical records
- Prepare reports, chronologies, time lines, medical fact reports, summaries, overviews regarding medical records and issues
- Identify standards of care that relate to the case, identify causation and damages
- Collaborate in developing strategies for medically related issues
- Aid in preparing demonstrative evidence and exhibits for deposition and trial
- Review medical files and provide informed support in workman's compensation or personal injury
- Provide support in medical depositions, including preparing questions
- Investigate issues and prepare reports regarding potential fraud related to health care providers
- Review medical bills to determine over-billing, mistaken billing, misrepresentation, etc.
- Investigate potential misconduct by health care personnel, requested by the licensing boards for healthcare professionals
- Investigate fraud and abuse of Medicare, Medicaid and other government funded agencies
- Assess potential risk management problem areas in acute care hospitals, clinics, surgery centers etc. and provide education and support
- Assume the role of expert witness to medical and nursing facts which are limited to areas of personal and professional expertise
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