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The
LNC National Directory was created to network Legal
Nurse Consultants (LNC's) with attorneys and
insurance companies across the nation. Since its
inception, the LNC National Directory has served
more than 16,000 attorneys, insurance and other
companies, and hundreds of LNC's across the nation.
Do not confuse us with the other directories online,
since we are the ONLY directory making our way
through the country as a true National Directory
with optimized email notifications to your potential
customers, and the ONLY service that offers LNC's so
much year after year. We also personalize our
service for you, as you can see from our email
campaigns to bring business to you, and our
designing a special, optimized website for you to launch your business
to the World Wide Web in a very BIG way when you
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The LNC National Directory is the only national
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About Legal Nurse Consultants and Why You
Should Hire One Today:
What is a Legal Nurse Consultant?
What Does a Legal Nurse Consultant Do?
Where Does the Legal Nurse Consultant Practice?
What is the Role of the Legal Nurse Consultant?
What is a
Legal Nurse Consultant?
The LNC is a licensed, registered
nurse who performs a critical analysis of clinical
and administrative nursing practice, healthcare
facts and issues and their outcomes for the legal
profession, healthcare professions, consumers of
healthcare and legal services, and others as
appropriate. With a strong educational and
experiential foundation, the LNC is qualified
to assess adherence to standards and guidelines of healthcare
practice as it applies to the nursing and healthcare
professions.
What Makes a Legal Nurse
Consultant Distinct?
As licensed registered nurses,
LNC's bring specialized healthcare education and
clinical experience to the medically related issues
of the litigation process. This education and
experience distinguishes LNC's from paralegals and
legal assistants and provides the foundation for the
LNC's ability to
recognize, interpret and analyze all relevant medically related
information in a claim or case.
What Does a Legal Nurse
Consultant Do?
- Acts as a liaison with attorneys,
physicians and clients
- Educates attorneys regarding medical
facts and issues relating to a case or claim
- Researches applicable literature and
evidence to determine the merits of a case
- Reviews and analyzes documents and
compares them to the allegations
- Summarizes medical literature
- Screens for record tampering
- Defines and evaluates the standards of
care practices
- Evaluates the possible breach of duty on
the part of the healthcare practitioner or facility
- Prepares witness and exhibit lists
- Interviews witnesses and involved parties
- Prepares persuasive graphic exhibits for
trial
- Assesses issues of damage and causation
- Identifies and retains expert witnesses
- Assists in obtaining medical records and
identifying missing records
- Organizes medical records and other
medically-related litigation materials
- Prepares chronologies of medical events
and correlates them to the allegations
- Develops collaborative case strategies
with those practicing within the legal system
- Provides support during discovery,
depositions, trial and other legal proceedings
Where Does the Legal Nurse
Consultant Practice?
As a liaison between the legal and
the healthcare communities as well as the consumer,
the LNC
can practice in a variety of settings including:
- Law firms
- Government offices
- Insurance companies
- Hospital risk management departments
- Forensic environments
- Consulting firms
- HMOs
- Self-employed independent practices
What is the Role of the Legal
Nurse Consultant?
The primary role of the LNC is to
evaluate, analyze, and render informed opinions on
the delivery of health care and the resulting
outcomes. For nearly 20 years, LNC's have acted as collaborators
and strategists, offering support in medically-related
litigation and other medical-legal matters in the variety of
practice areas including the following:
- Personal injury
- Product liability
- Medical malpractice
- Workers' compensation
- Toxic torts
- Risk management
- Medical licensure investigation
- Fraud and abuse, compliance
- Criminal law
- Elder law
- Other applicable cases
Find A LNC:
To find a LNC located in your area, select the LNC
National Directory button above and use the map on
the LNC National Directory page. If you do not find
a LNC in your location, consider contacting us for a
referral, or contact a LNC in a nearby location, as
many LNC's offer their services outside of their
geographical regions.
Apply For/Updating LNC National Directory
Listing:
If you are an LNC and you would like to apply for a
listing in the LNC National Directory, use the form
on the
Application
page. If you are updating your
listing or adding your services to your listing,
please use the same
Application Form and include
only the updated information.
Thank you for using the LNC National Directory.
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