What a legal nurse can do for you:
- Educate attorneys regarding medical facts and issues relating to a case or claim
- Summarize medical literature
- Evaluate for possible breach of duty by health care worker or facility
- Prepare chronology of medical events and correlate them to the allegations
- Development of charts, graphs and pictorials for presentation at trial
- Assess issues of damage and causation
- Research applicable literature and evidence to determine the merits of a case
- Review and analyze documents and compare them to allegations of the case
- Screen for record tampering
- Define and evaluate the standards of care for practice
- Interview witnesses and involved parties
- Identify expert witnesses
- Identify missing records and assist in obtaining medical records
- Organize medical records and other medically-related litigation material
- Develop collaborative case strategies with attorneys
- Provide support during discovery, trial and other legal proceedings
- Provide and/or assess rehabilitation management