Expertise
Expert Witness Qualifications video
What does it take to do well as a nursing expert witness? Does the expert really have the right qualifications in the form of education, training and experience? Sometimes an attorney asks nursing expert witnesses in a very confrontational way during a deposition, “What makes you think you’re an expert?” The expert has to be…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultant Quick Tips for Success
Read these quick tips for legal nurse consultant success. • Most law offices are not like the ones depicted on shows like Boston Legal, Harry’s Law, or Ally McBeal. • Most attorneys are not going to look or act like William Shatner, Calista Flockhart or Kathy Bates. • Do not assume; always verify the facts.…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultant Reports: How to be Persuasive
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…
Read MoreLegal 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…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultant Reports: 6 Video Tips
Discover how to polish your legal nurse consultant reports with the tips in this quick video by Pat Iyer MSN RN LNCC.
Read MoreMedical records and LNC subcontractors
A legal nurse consultant recently asked if she should allow one of her clients to send medical records directly to her subcontractor. Does your client know your subcontractor? The request of the attorney to send records to the subcontractor is tricky. If this person is an expert, the attorney would know the identity of the…
Read MoreWhat does the LNC do in a Failure to Rescue Case?
Your role as a legal nurse consultant in helping an attorney with a failure to rescue case might involve explaining the function of a rapid response team. The concept of a rapid response team originated with a critical care nurse from New Zealand who recognized the need to bring resources to the bedside of a…
Read MoreThe LNC’s Analysis of a Failure to Rescue Case
Failure to rescue is a devastating clinical event and a devastating accusation against a nurse. A nurse walks into a patient’s room and recognizes the patient is not breathing and has no pulse. The nurse starts CPR and alerts the cardiac resuscitation team. After trying medications and shock, the team is unable to restore the…
Read MoreHow to Know When You’ve Become an LNC
As I revised the Path to Legal Nurse Consulting for its second edition, I asked LNCs to describe when they knew they had become an LNC. Here is a sampling of what they had to say. You lie awake at night writing your next day’s report and putting all the pieces together. Your spouse informs…
Read MoreYou Know You are an LNC When…
As I revised the Path to Legal Nurse Consulting for its second edition, I asked LNCs to describe when they knew they had transitioned from nurse to legal nurse consultant. Here is a sampling of what they had to say. Quitting your day job no longer seems impossible. You are asked what you do at…
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