What
is a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant? A Certified Legal Nurse
Consultant (CLNC) is a Registered Nurse who has taken advanced training
in legal
nurse consulting and has passed the certification exam.
Why do I need
to hire a legal nurse consultant? Many of today’s
legal cases involve complex and voluminous medical information that
must be analyzed and interpreted. Burton Legal Nurse Consulting can
provide you with nursing and medical opinions as the experts on causality,
Standards of Care, propriety of care, etc. A CLNC can bring years
of medical experience to your case. She can see things in the medical
records that might otherwise be overlooked.
Types of Services Provided:
- Screening of cases for merit
- Organization and summarization of medical records
- Identify causation and contributing factors of injuries
- Identification of prior medical conditions
- Development of questions for Interrogatories and Depositions
- Identify missing records and tampering issues
- Define Standards of Care/deviations from SOC
- Schedule/Attend Independent Medical Exams
Who could benefit from
the services of a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant? Attorneys
for defense and plaintiff, insurance companies,
corporations
and industries. Can’t paralegals do the same work for
less pay? Most paralegals lack the necessary medical expertise
to properly review a case with
the accuracy and attention to medical details that ultimately will
deliver the best outcome for your case.
Why should we use a CLNC
when a doctor will eventually need to give an expert opinion? A
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant can
do the
initial review for less money than a physician. If the case needs
to go to
a physician, the CLNC’s summary of the case will assist the
physician in understanding all of the pertinent details contained
in the records.
The CLNC can also suggest experts who can build the strongest possible
case.
The CLNC is a highly-skilled professional who can assist you
in any environment in which the delivery of healthcare is in question:
- Products Liability
- Medical and Nursing Malpractice
- Defense or Plaintiff
- Toxic/Tort/Environmental Issues
- Personal Injury
- Criminal Law where health/injury is a factor
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