As a nationally recognized speaker, Dr. Barber provides expert insights into perinatal healthcare, electronic fetal monitoring, risk management and birth injury litigation. Available to help you elevate your next conference or training session: whether for a keynote address, or an in-person session for your team, Dr. Barber brings unique and transformative perspectives designed to elevate professional practice while empowering her audience.
Previous presentations covered:
- Birth Injury Litigation: reviewing common allegations, case development, development of evidence, defense strategies, as well as role of the consulting and testifying expert
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring: mastering the basics of fetal monitoring interpretation, broadening the awareness of pathophysiology, exploring risk management approaches related to clinical management, communication and documentation
- Nursing entrepreneurship: transitioning from bedside care to business ownership, focusing on the unique selling point, exploring the blueprint for building a successful medical legal consulting practice and navigating the business side of nursing
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.
As a certified AWHONN Fetal Monitoring instructor, Dr. Barber is available to teach AWHONN fetal monitoring courses.
To learn more about available continuing education opportunities, and to purchase a course,
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.
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.
