Legal nurse consultant

One of the major types of nurse entrepreneur is legal nurse consultant (LNC). LNC refers to registered nurse that applies acquired knowledge from nursing education, training and extensive clinical experience to function as a healthcare provider which attains the capability to evaluate the standard of care, identify problems and develop solutions through specialized training that focuses on the consultation related to medical-legal claims. LNCs are trained to solve complicated situations,…

Expert Nurse Consultants and Testimony At Litigation Legal Insight, or Litili, we partner with nurses and doctors who are available for expert testimony, consultations, and a variety of other legal matters. Our nurse consultants are able to provide support services concerning a variety of litigation resulting from medical negligence, patient rehabilitation, medical record investigation, and emergency care management. When hiring a nurse consultant, they should be able to give an expert opinion…

A forensic nurse is a nurse that provides specialized care for patients who have been victimized and/ or perpetrators of trauma both intentional and unintentional, also known as forensic and a nurse combined. According to forensicnurses.org the role goes far beyond medical care. Forensic nurses collect evidence, provide medical testimony for court and consults with legal authorities. The career of a forensic nurse will be reviewed based on job responsibilities, the work environment, types of…

Forensic clinical nurse specialists hold a master’s or doctoral forensic nursing degree and use their advanced training to serve as expert clinicians, teachers, researchers, consultants and administrators in different forensic settings. They may work in emergency rooms, sexual assault examination programs, psychiatric forensic treatment units or death investigation teams. More often, forensic nurses work within medical facilities assisting patients who come into clinics and hospitals.…

She points out that thousands suffer from kidney disease that has no known cure leaving patients to suffer the only treatment; costly dialysis for years and years, in which they will have to endure, until a kidney transplant becomes available. Cadaverous kidney transplants are usually from the old and the sick and do not last nearly as long as a live kidney donation. Accidents are another major source for a live donation. Most countries have laws forbidding organ sales, which make the odds of…

day. June Crown and W.D.M. Paton state that "Further, one should realize that different cannabis smokers select different levels of intoxication". In addition, both alcohol and cigarettes have been proven to be chemically addictive and yet they are legal. As of late 1990, there were about twelve people who had permission to smoke marijuana for its medical value. Are these the only people who can benefit from marijuana? Not according to Harvard researchers who surveyed 2,430 oncologists; of the…

Prosecutor’s Misconduct VS the Wrongly Convicted Since 1989, “The National Registry of Exonerations”, founded in 2012 provides detailed information detailing all known unjustly convicted persons in the United States. “They announced that the release of the unjustly convicted hit a record high of 127 inmates being released from prison for crimes that they did not commit”. (USA Today) Today, the total of known exonerees is 1555. It goes without saying that the greatest miscarriage of justice is…

Organ donation, and the ethical issues surrounding it, has become a topic of discussion in recent years. Most ethical issues involve patients and family, but it can also affect nurses and physicians. The article Organ Donation after Circulatory Death, the authors highlight the ethical dilemmas of organ donation due to “non-heart beating” death. In such cases the patient must die within 60 minutes after being removed from life support to be eligible for organ donation. With the shortage of…

The Role of Co-Parenting In Families of Divorce Elliot Schwartz #2725190 The University of Kansas 11/19/2015 Author Note: Elliot Schwartz, PSYC 333, The University of Kansas, Submitted as partial requirement of PSYC 333 Development In marage two people are drawn together to create an alliance and declare the reasons why they are with each other. In many of these alliances the two people decide to bring a child into the world. However, the reasons that brought these two together do…

used by the prosecutor” (Goffman 2014, p. 264). During this, a lawyer must also be able to protect the legal rights of the client. Furthermore, the lawyer must insure that the accused receives the fairest trial and or is able to help the accused be dismissed from all charges on them. At first the lawyers use casual language that all people in the courtroom understand, however as soon as they use legal terms it is difficult for the other non-professionals to understand making the ambiance more…