When a case turns on what happened in an exam room, an operating suite, or at a bedside, the medical record becomes the most important witness. Yet raw charts are rarely straightforward. They’re fragmented across providers, peppered with abbreviations, duplicated entries, conflicting notes, and time stamps that don’t always tell a clean story. That’s where […]

It’s no secret that the legal system is a complicated maze of laws and regulations. Even lawyers who specialize in a specific area of law can’t be expected to know all there is to know about every other type of case, which opens the door for many opportunities for mistakes that could lead to costly

Nurses with an interest for both emergency room trauma and courtroom drama may want to pursue a nursing degree in legal nurse consulting. Legal nurse consultants use their healthcare know-how in conjunction with an interest in the legal system to have a rewarding career in this combined profession. Legal nurse consultants are commonly called by