Powerful Legal Nurse Consulting Chronologies - Emily Flynn and Pat Iyer

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The ability to deliver an informative and easy-to-follow medical chronology can boost your LNC business. Emily Flynn, an experienced emergency department nurse, has been a legal nurse consultant since 2006. She brings her expertise to the complex subject of preparing a chronology that meets her clients’ needs.
Emily describes how she uses basic software such as Word to build her chronologies, including specific color accents to highlight major points. She also keeps a file of medical and pharmaceutical definitions that she can cut and paste into chronologies.
Though this is her basic approach, she always determines the attorney’s preferred format for a chronology and also how much content the client wants. Emily finds it crucial to have a system for organizing the files and discovering when critical files are missing from the records.
Handling discrepancies is a vital part of writing a chronology. It may be necessary to delineate the variance of opinions among eyewitnesses, for example. Sometimes different doctors have varying opinions of a patient’s condition. Emily emphasizes that pointing out discrepancies is not expressing an opinion. Opinions aren’t part of an LNC’s work.
You’re sure to find valuable recommendations to use in your chronology work. Learn from Emily now.
• How can you use basic software for medical chronologies?
• What questions should you ask an attorney who requests a chronology?
• How can you best outline discrepancies?
• How do you reduce thousands of pages into a chronology?
• How do you check to determine if records are missing?
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[@amandasimon2681]

Such useful information!

[@nspringer6751]

Thank you so much..so helpful

[@dawnmyers9454]

Very useful information! Great suggestions. Enjoyed the discussion!

[@Steve-wf3vv]

What qualifies a nurse to review extensive complex medical records and determine if an actual doctor with more than twice their training and experience has met the standard of care or not?

[@LegalNurseBusiness]

Hi Steve, nurses are responsible for understanding the responsibilities of physicians because we must question them if they write inaccurate orders. We are their safety net, and capable to recognizing when they are making an error.

[@Steve-wf3vv]

@@LegalNurseBusiness I don’t know of any doctors who invite their nurses to question their medical judgment. How many victims of medical negligence have had their lives further devastated by a nurse’s failure to find malpractice in their records that a real doctor would have been able to identify? Ask any potential malpractice client whether they want a nurse to review their records for evidence of malpractice or a doctor, and I guarantee you 99.99% would want a doctor. Unfortunately many lawyers insist on nurses because they’re cheaper. But you get what you pay for. No malpractice victim really wants you reviewing their records. They’re just stuck with you because most lawyers insist on this cheaper route. Quite frankly, you really ought to be ashamed of yourself.