• identifying standards of care, causation, and damage issues
  
  
• conducting client interviews
  
  
• conducting research and summarizing medical literature
  
  
• identifying and applying multidisciplinary standards of care and regulatory requirements
  
  
• preparing chronologies of medical events and comparing and correlating them to the allegations
  
  
• educating attorneys regarding medical facts and issues relevant to the case

Consultants may also perform the following activities:

• identifying and determining damages and related costs of services
  
  
• including collaborating with economists in preparing a cost analysis for damages
  
  
• assisting with depositions and trials, including developing and preparing exhibits
  
  
• organizing medical records and other medically related litigation materials
  
  
• locating and procuring demonstrative evidence
  

• collaborating with attorneys to prepare or analyze complaints, answers, and motions for summary judgment, interrogatories, deposition and trial outlines, queries for direct and cross examination, document production requests, trial briefs, demand letters, and status reports
  
  

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  Common Life Care Planner Duties

  
  
  
• What is a Life Care Plan?
  
  
  • A Life Care Plan is a dynamic individualized document, often created by a nurse due to medical training and unique qualifications as a facilitator of client needs
    
    
  • Based upon published standards of practice, this comprehensive assessment of data analysis and research is flexible and objective
    
    
  • Provides an organized concise plan for current and future needs with associated costs for individuals who have experienced catastrophic injury or have chronic health care needs
  
  
  
• Typical Duties
  
  
  • Act as a liaison among attorneys, physicians, and clients
    
    
  • Assess patients' future medical, psychosocial, and economic needs
    
    
  • Analyze, research, evaluate, and collaborate with other professionals
    
    
  • Develop life care plans & make care recommendations for individuals with chronic illnesses, disabilities, & catastrophic injuries to improve the quality of life
  
  
  
• Typical Workplaces
  
  
  • Government agencies
    
    
  • Law firms
    
    
  • Insurance companies
    
    
  • Independent practice
    
    
  • HMOs
  
  
  
• Typical Reference / Software
  
  
  • Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles & Practice (Iyer 2003) - (AALNC)
    
    
  • Stedman's LegalMedware
    
    
  • CaseSoft
    • Case Map
      
    • TimeMap
      
    • TextMap
      
    • DepPrep
      
      
  • Word
    
    
  • Excel
    
    
  • PubMed, EMedicine, MDConsult and membership libraries
    
    
  • Sophisticated use and access of medical articles and text excerpts
    
    
    
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