LegalNurse Consultant Training Course™

This exciting program prepares Registered Nurses and Physician's Assistants for a career in the legal field as legal nurse consultants.  Building on the medical education and clinical experience of RNs and PAs, this course provides the RN and PA with fundamental skills necessary to advise law firms, health care providers, insurance companies and governmental agencies regarding medically related issues and to appear in court as expert witnesses.  The course presents legal concepts related to the health care industry, as well as the role a legal nurse consultant might play in such litigation areas as: medical malpractice, toxic torts, products liability, criminal law, and workers' compensation.  Any RN or PA interested in entering the legal field can benefit from the education provided by this course.

The curriculum of this course is based on the text, Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice published by the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. Students will receive 42-hours of instruction and will be required to pass weekly quizzes on the information presented.

This CE activity was approved by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

This program will be presented as follows:

Session One: Legal Nurse Consultant Practice Areas and Legal Theory

Session Two: Ethics for the Legal Nurse Consultant and the Legal Nurse Consultant's Role in the Litigation Process

Session Three: The Environments in which a Legal Nurse Consultant Might Work and an Introduction to Legal Writing

REQUIRED TEXT:          Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, 2nd Ed., edited by Patricia W. Iyer, MSN, RN, LNCC, and published by the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
FEE: $789