Trust in the Legal Nurse Consultant for professional medical legal services. At Prepaid Legal Nurse Services, we have the knowledge and skills to properly analyze an injury and make an impact on the value of a lawyer's case. Whether you need Medical Malpractice or Nursing Home Negligence  advice, we have the services you deserve. Contact us in Chicago, Illinois.

Experience superior care from Prepaid Legal Nurse Services. As a legal and registered nurse, our owner provides solid legal advice that's pertinent to the medical and nursing fields.
  
We specialize in services for all of your legal nursing consultations, nurse continuing education seminars and in-service needs located in Chicago and serving all Illinois and Indiana.

Role of the Legal Nurse Consultant

           The primary role of the of the legal nurse consultant is to evaluate, analyze, and render informed opinions on the delivery of health care and the resulting outcomes. While the practice of the legal nurse consultant varies with respective practice opportunities and experience levels, certain commonalities prevail. Parameters of the practice may include, but are not limited to,

• Facilitating communications and thus strategizing with the legal profesional for successful resolutions between parties involved in health care-related litigation or other medical-legal or health-care legal matters;
• Educating attorneys and/or others involved in the legal process regarding the healthcare facts and issues of a case or claim;
• Researching and integrating healthcare and nursing literature as it relates to the healthcare facts of issues of a case or claim;
• Reviewing, summarizing and analyzing medical records and other pertinent healthcare and legal documents and comparing and correlating them to the allegations;
• Assessing issues of damages and causation relative to liability within the legal process;
• Identifying, locating, evaluating and conferring with expert witnesses;
• Interviewing witnesses and parties pertinent to the healthcare issues in collaboration with legal professionals;
• Drafting legal documents in medically related cases under the supervision of an attorney;
• Developing collaborative case strategies with those practicing within the legal system;
• Providing support during discovery, depositions, trial, and other legal proceedings; and
• Supporting the process of adjudication of legal claims.