Healthcare-Acquired Infections

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An attorney may come to you as an LNC with a concern about a healthcare-acquired infection, which you can identify in the patient’s medical record. A legal nurse consultant should look in the medical record for the presence or absence of rapid diagnostic tests, potential therapeutic failure of antibiotics, or death due to failure to…

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The LNC’s Role in Analyzing Injury Diagnosis in Car Accidents

Injury Diagnosis in Car Accidents

The LNC’s role in analyzing injury diagnosis in car accident documentation is critical to attorneys and their cases. In Chapter 2, Injury Diagnosis in Car Accidents: The Role of Imaging from my book, Medical Record Analysis: A Guide for Attorneys by Expert LNCs Volume 3, the Role of Imaging is covered in full. This is an excerpt from…

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Mechanisms of Injury in Motor Vehicle Collisions

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Mechanisms of Injury in Motor Vehicle Collisions Mechanisms of injury refers to how traumatic forces affect the human body, causing injury. How can LNCs help attorneys with motor vehicle crash cases? You will need an understanding of the various forces exerted upon the vehicles and occupants (humans riding in the vehicle) in multiple configurations of…

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Medical Record Analysis: A Guide for Attorneys by Expert LNCs

  Medical Record Analysis – What is it? How do you decipher the often complex issues associated with medical cases? How do you make sense of often indecipherable medical records? And how do you tease apart the liability of these cases? Have you felt frustrated by the sheer amount of medical details involved in litigation?…

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LNCs Criminal Cases: Homicide or Suicide?

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Are you an LNC interested in criminal cases? Not sure if it’s for you? This post will show you what to expect. Let me introduce you to Teresa Devitt-Lynch. Teresa has been a guest on my Podcast. She is also speaking at my upcoming virtual conferences called The Ultimate LNC Conference: Murder Mysteries Unraveled: The…

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Homicide or Suicide: The LNC’s Impact on Legal Battles

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Homicide or suicide: the LNC’s impact on legal battles is tremendous. Gunshot Wounds As healthcare providers and LNCs, we consider factors when examining the documentation available. Reports provided by the police, investigators, or medical professionals who examine a body. What are some of those factors that we should consider? Gunshot is one of the more…

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Technology Addiction: The Hidden Killer

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You’ve seen people sit in a restaurant not talking to each other. I have. Now technology addiction offers another socially acceptable way to fragment communication bonds. Picture this. I am eating outdoors at a restaurant in Florida. There is a family sitting next to me: parents and two small children under the age of 6.…

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5 Traps That Will Ruin Your Expert Witness Practice

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Do you want to avoid traps that will ruin your expert witness practice? Inexperienced experts may be completely oblivious to these traps. Be wary and learn the rules. Not Quickly Responding to a Case Inquiry “Would you like to review this case?” You receive a voice mail or email asking if you are interested in…

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Legal Nurse Consultant Reports: How to be Persuasive

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Your attorney client asked you to prepare a report to explain your opinions about a case. You could be screening a case for merit, writing an expert witness report, or offering consulting (behind the scenes) consulting services for a variety of cases. Follow these tips to write a persuasive legal nurse consultant report. 1. Everything…

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Legal Nurse Consultant Reports: What Attorneys Want video

Watch this short video to determine what attorneys want from legal nurse consultant reports. Tailor your reports to meet your client’s expectations.   Pat Iyer MSN RN LNCC is president of The Pat Iyer Group. She is the past president of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC). She has written or edited thousands…

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