Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice

Designed to meet the needs of both novice and advanced practitioners, the first edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice established standards and defined the core curriculum of legal nurse consulting. It also guided the development of the certification examination administered by the American Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Board. The extensive revisions and additions in Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition make this bestselling reference even more indispensable. The most significant change is the inclusion of 15 new chapters, each of which highlights an important aspect of legal nurse consulting practice:

Entry into the Specialty

Certification

Nursing Theory: Applications to Legal Nurse Consulting

Elements of Triage for Medical Malpractice

Evaluating Nursing Home Cases

Principles of Evaluating Personal Injury Cases

Common Mechanisms of Injury in Personal Injury Cases

ERISA and HMO Litigation

The LNC as Case Manager

Report Preparation

Locating and Working with Expert Witnesses

The Role of the LNC in Preparation of Technical Demonstrative Evidence

Marketing

Growing a Business

Business Ethics

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition presents up-to-date, practical information on consulting in a variety of practice environments and legal areas. Whether you are an in-house LNC or you work independently, this book is your definitive guide to legal nurse consulting.

• Author
• Patricia W. Iyer

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 1160

• Publisher
• CRC Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780849314186

• Release date
• 2002