A Bakersfield Legal Nurse Consultant provides legal nurse consulting services to attorneys.
Services typically include:
- Serving as an experienced medical resource for attorneys and law firms claim staff.
- Attend mediations, arbitrations, pre-trial conferences, and depositions
- Evaluate medical treatment
- Chronology preparation
- Provide demonstrative evidence
- Accurate and timely preparation and presentation of oral and written reports
What Legal Nurse Consultants Do:
- testify at hearings, depositions, and arbitrations
- serve as a liaison between law firms, medical experts and other parties
- locate and interview medical experts
- testify at trials
- identify deviations from nursing standards of care
- Serve as an expert witness
- coordinate independent medical examinations
- research medical literature
- formulate medical-legal case theories
- prepare expert witness reports for use at trial
Legal Nurse Consultants are registered nurses who are licensed in the State they are working in, with at least five years experience in any nursing specialty.
Typical expertise of and professional certifications of a Legal Nurse Consultant in Bakersfield Ca:
Experience:
Experience as a Director of Nursing for long term care/subacute facilities
Experience as a Manager of Case Management in an acute care setting
Experience supervising Bakersfield CNA’s in many settings
Typical Professional Organizations:
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
National Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society
Case Management Society of America
Certifications often include:
CDON-LTC
Telemetry Nursing
EKG/Pacer
CPR/First Aid
Helpful to Be Proficient in:
Microsoft Word
Outlook
Excel
Power Point