Services Provided
Specialty Areas
Specialty Areas
Specialty Areas
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury
- Long Term Care Litigation/Elder Law
- Worker's Compensation
- Life Care Planning
Services
Specialty Areas
Specialty Areas
- Assess Medical Records and Analyze the Case
- Support the Attorney's Case
- Serve as the Attorney's Liaison
- Work with Experts and Other Witnesses
- Assist with Discovery and Preparation for Court
- Nurse Life Care Planning (NLCP)
- Medical Expert for Case Review and Expert Testimony
Our Expertise
Specialty Areas
Our Expertise
ACS Legal Nurse Consultants apply their knowledge and understanding of medical, nursing and health-related issues to make an attorney’s job easier, more efficient and more effective. We act as a medical insider who knows the inner workings of our complicated healthcare system firsthand. As a professional, the role of the Legal Nurse Consultant is to educate attorney-clients about the medical aspects of their case. Our expertise as RNs and Legal Nurse Consultants qualifies us to perform tasks that saves the attorney time and money.
Detailed Services
Assess Medical Records and Analyze the Case
- Identify and review relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures, other essential documents and tangible items
- Organize, tab and paginate medical records
- Summarize, translate and interpret medical records
- Prepare chronologies of the medical events involved in a case
- Screen or investigate cases for merit
- Define the applicable standards of care
- Define deviations from the applicable standards of care
- Assess the alleged damages and/or injuries
- Identify factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages and/or injuries
- Identify and recommend potential defendants
- Identify issues of tampering with the medical records
- Develop written reports for use as study tools by the attorney
Support the Attorney's Case
- Conduct literature searches and integrate the literature and standards/guidelines into the case analysis
- Research and analyze the validity of research studies relied on by all parties
- Coordinate and attend independent medical examinations (IMEs)
- Develop life care plans
- Expand the attorney's medical library
Serve as the Attorney's Liaison
- Interview plaintiff and defense clients, key witnesses and experts
- Consult with healthcare providers
- Serve as liaison between the attorney and healthcare providers, testifying experts, parties, witnesses and other consultants
Work with Experts and Other Witnesses
- Locate and interface with expert witnesses
- Communicate with potential testifying experts
- Analyze and compare expert witness reports and other work products
- Help prepare witnesses and experts for deposition and trial
- Serve as an expert witness and testify to the nursing standard of care
Assist with Discovery and Preparation for Court
- Review, analyze and summarize depositions-- including past testimony
- Prepare interrogatories
- Review and draft responses to various legal documents and correspondence for the attorney's signature
- Assist in exhibit preparation
- Attend depositions, trials, review panels and arbitration and mediation hearings
- Coordinate and assist in facilitating focus groups and mock trials
- Assist in resolution of cases through alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation
Nurse Life Care Planning (NLCP)
- Determine the future cost of care for those who have suffered catastrophic or complicated injuries and illnesses
- Medical Cost Projection
- Causation
- Damages
- Billing Audits
- Develop Medicare Set-aside Allocations
Lead Legal Nurse COnsultant
Shaun Creary-Walker RN MSN, CCM, LNC
Shaun Creary-Walker has been a practicing RN for the past 18 years. She has vast experience in acute care, medical and surgical nursing, orthopedics, long term care/elder care, homecare, hospice, education, and case management including worker's compensation. Along with the diverse medical knowledge she possesses, she holds a Masters degree in nursing and the distinguished case management certification, branding her as an expert in her field.