Expertise
Medical 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…
Read More5 Grammatical Mistakes in LNC Reports
After proofreading thousands of LNC reports, I prepared this list of 5 grammatical mistakes in LNC reports. This is a list of common offenders. Do you want to present yourself a well-qualified communicator, one who understands how attorneys scrutinize every word in a report? Here is what NOT to do. 1. Don’t confuse possessive and…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consulting Reports: Are you Being Redundant?
Like the twins in this picture, redundancy can be eye catching. You don’t want your client to stumble over cliched, redundant phrases in your legal nurse consulting reports. Don’t pair nouns, verbs or adjectives that express the same concept in your legal nurse consulting reports Don’t include redundant ideas: Few and far between Conclusive proof…
Read More7 Tips for Top Notch LNC Reports
You labor over your legal nurse consulting report because you want to do the best job possible for your attorney client. You want to produce a top notch LNC report. I understand. I’ve written or proofread thousands of reports. Here are commonly occurring errors I find when proofreading LNC reports. Don’t get tripped up by…
Read MoreExpert Witness Advice: How Do I Get Out of a Case? Part 2
Withdrawal of an Expert Witness In Part 1, I wrote about the expert witness’s surprise when finding out a case is not going to settle and the expert has to go to court to testify. This is additional expert witness advice: What factors allow an expert witness to withdraw from a case? There are a…
Read MoreExpert Witness Advice: How Do I Get Out of a Case? Part 1
“The attorney told me I would never have to testify. Now I found out it is going to trial! I don’t want to go.” Have you ever heard this complaint from an expert? Ever made that statement yourself as an expert? Responsibilities of an Expert Witness An expert enters into an agreement with an attorney…
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