The advanced Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) training of our principal medical legal consultant, supports systematic literature search strategies. This ensures dissemination of a representative sample of literature to our clients. Our expertise allows us to synthesize data and integrate the literature, standards, and guidelines into the case analysis.
We can help prepare witnesses and experts for deposition and trial. Additionally, we can interview clients, key witnesses and experts.
With our clinical expertise and extensive knowledge of the medical record, we can accurately and efficiently identify adherence to, or deviations from the standards of care. This enables us to efficiently screen cases for merit.
With the advanced training of our medical legal consultant, we can provide our clients medical, and nursing interpretation and opinion of facts. We can develop written reports for use as study tools by our clients from brief to comprehensive reports with the inclusion of chronological timelines. We can evaluate damages, injuries and causation by accurately assessing pre-existing conditions, factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages and injuries, and determine prognosis. We can assist in identifying if the incident, or deviation in the standard of care, caused the injury.
With our clinical expertise and known inner workings of hospital systems, our team can assist in preparation of interrogatories, deposition and trial questions, and the development of demonstrative evidence.
Continuing Education: Barber Medical Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Florida State Board of Nursing. The affordable, and evidence-based continuing education courses are related to risk management in perinatal care, and are aligned with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Implementation of learned concepts from our continuing education program promote positive birth outcomes, while reducing medical legal risk for hospital systems, providers, and nurses.
Recorded on-demand, live multidisciplinary learning sessions, and microlearning sessions (< 30 minutes) cover medical legal issues for hospital systems, outpatient Ob/Gyn office settings, insurance companies, physicians, midwives, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, attorney’s, and paralegals. Whether you’re seeking continuing nursing education credit, or looking to enhance your understanding of perinatal care, and risk management, our learning sessions are available for your learning needs.
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