Required Textbook:

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice
Second Edition Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed., offers the most complete and effective overview of legal nurse consulting available.

Cost for Course:  $1300.00. Payment in full before

Classes meet Thursdays from 6pm-10pm for 10 weeks

January 2006 first class.  This course has been submitted to the Texas Nurses Association for Approval for 32 continuing education credits.

Scope of Practice

What do legal nurse consultants do? In the course of their work, legal nurse consultants may be engaged in any number of the following activities:

• identifying standards of care, causation, and damage issues
• conducting client interviews
• conducting research and summarizing medical literature
• identifying and applying multidisciplinary standards of care and regulatory requirements
• preparing chronologies of medical events and comparing and correlating them to the allegations
• educating attorneys regarding medical facts and issues relevant to the case
• identifying and determining damages and related costs of services, including collaborating with economists in preparing a cost analysis for damages
• assisting with depositions and trials, including developing and preparing exhibits
• organizing medical records and other medically related litigation materials
• locating and procuring/g demonstrative evidence
• collaborating with attorneys in preparing or analyzing complaints, answers, and motions for summary judgment, interrogatories, deposition and trial outlines, queries for direct and cross examination, document production requests, trial briefs, demand letters, and status reports
• identifying and retaining expert witnesses
• acting as a liaison among attorneys, physicians, and clients
• providing initial case screenings for merit