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