Legal Nurse Consultants are Registered Nurses who use their years of experience and education in the medical field to provide comprehensive reviews, analysis of medical records and medical legal issues. They can act as a fact witness or locate expert witnesses for testimony. Nurses receive advanced training in the area of medical record review and can provide valuable information to attorneys, insurance companies, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and other organizations. Legal Nurse Consultants review and analyze medical records, detect tampering in medical records, offer assistance with or create demonstrative evidence, evaluate medical information, and provide professional nursing opinions regarding the causation of injuries and the assessment of damages to individuals. Legal Nurse Consultants can interview witnesses under the direction of an attorney to help expose the truth in cases. Legal Nurse Consultants provide reports and other presentations to their client to help determine how to further find the truth in the case at hand.

While the attorney is the legal expert, the Legal Nurse Consultant is the expert on the healthcare system and its inner workings. Nurses obtain years of medical record training and experience. Nurses are more familiar with patient charting than physicians and can recognize errors or omissions in these charts. They are responsible for the maintenance of medical records in the medical field. Because of this training and experience, Legal Nurse Consultants can provide a more thorough analysis of your medically related case. Without an in-depth knowledge of the medical records, important details may be missed, which may be of detriment to your case. Nowhere else will you find this level of cost-effective expertise.