Canadian nurses have discovered a new area of specialty-- legal nurse consulting. It can be the best of both worlds for an experienced RN. She can use her established knowledge and skills in a whole new way. She can explore employment options outside of shiftwork. She can remain an important member of a professional team that can make a difference.
Here is how a nurse works within the team:
*Strategizes with the legal professional for successful resolutions between parties involved in health care-related litigation or other medical-legal or health care-legal matters;
*Educate attorneys and/or others involved in the legal process regarding the healthcare facts and issues of a case or claim;
*Research and integrate healthcare and nursing literature as it relates to the healthcare facts and issues of a case or a claim:
*Review, summarize, and analyze medical records and other pertinent healthcare and legal documents and comparing and correlating them to the allegations;
*Assess issues of damages and causation relative to liability within the legal process;
*Identify, locate, evaluate, and confer with expert witnesses;
*Interview witnesses and parties pertinent to the healthcare issues in collaboration with legal professionals;
*Draft legal documents in medically related cases under the supervision of an attorney;
*Develop collaborative case strategies with those practicing within the legal system;
*Provide support during discovery, depositions, trial, and other legal proceedings;
*Support the process of adjudication of legal claims.
Source: AALNC
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