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 What is a Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)?

The primary role of the legal nurse consultant is to evaluate, analyze, and render informed opinions on the delivery of health care and the resulting outcomes. For nearly 20 years, legal nurse consultants have acted as collaborators and strategists, offering support in medically related litigation and other medical-legal matters in the following areas: 

  • personal injury 
  • product liability 
  • medical malpractice 
  • toxic torts 
  • workers' compensation 
  • risk management 
  • medical licensure investigation, and 
  • other applicable cases 

Distinct from a paralegal or legal assistant, the legal nurse consultant is a unique and valuable member of the litigation team. Legal nurse consultants bring specialized education and clinical expertise to the medically related issues of the litigation process. The practice of legal nurse consulting is performed in collaboration with attorneys and others involved in the legal process. The independent practice of law does not fall within the legal nurse consultant's scope of practice. American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants 

       

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