History

The medical and workplace background of legal nurses provides insight into recognizing medication errors, staffing errors, cover-ups, overuse of chemicals or restraints, improper post-operative care, inadequate care for helpless patients and intentional abuses and harm.

Significance

Legal nurses are hired by lawyers to assist in case analysis, fact-finding, witness interviews, time-line of events and medical mistakes and omissions. Some may also work with individuals to help go over medical records and help discover gaps in nursing care.

Function

They can help to identify deviations from the standards of care that a patient either received or did not receive and the negative outcome that occurred from such a deviation.

Potential

Once hired, legal nurses are to base their findings on the facts presented in medical histories and events in a manner that is objective and free from prejudice.

Benefits

Legal nurses can work with a variety of cases such as pharmaceutical malpractice, nursing home abuse or neglect, emergency room and surgical errors, car, trucking and construction accidents, and other types of personal injury cases.

Prevention/Solution

Some legal nurses feel by helping attorneys win wrongful injury cases it will prevent future acts of medical abuse, malpractice and neglect and help improve the healthcare system.

Source:

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