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Which elements are inherent in the professional role of a legal nurse consultant?
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Desire to be an advocate for the underserved. |
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Nursing skills, knowledge and expertise. |
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Desire to change profession. |
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Imagination and the willingness to accept a challenge. |
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The most significant service that the legal nurse consultant provides is:
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Serving as a liaison between attorneys. |
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Interpreting the medical record. |
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Drafting legal documents. |
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Interviewing potential paralegals for the attorney's practice. |
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Common practices in the roles of both the RN and the legal nurse consultant are:
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Encouraging a patient and family to discuss their concerns and seek legal advice. |
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Remaining clinically active and managing staffing patterns. |
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Researching current literature, critiquing care, and making decisions independently. |
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Coordinating the discharge plan of care. |
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As a legal nurse consultant, what is the most important skill you bring to law firms, insurance companies, utilization review firms, government agencies, and private corporations?
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Communication skills with physicians. |
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Knowledge of nursing and the inner processes of the healthcare system. |
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Technical skills for working in a specialty nursing unit. |
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Knowledge of how to create an electronic medical record. |
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Which is true regarding the importance of translating and interpreting the medical record?
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The legal nurse consultant can read between the lines and determine what information is missing. |
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The legal nurse consultant provides medical and nursing opinions based only on their personal nursing experience. |
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Day to day the RN has about the same amount of interaction with the medical record as the physician does. |
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The physician's handwriting is usually legible to everyone but the nurse. |
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Which phrase best describes the legal nurse consultant's role as educator to the attorney?
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Identifies and interviews key witnesses best suited for the case. |
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Identifies the amount of damages to be awarded in a case. |
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Increases the attorney's understanding of the record in order to support the case effectively. |
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Assists the attorney with deciding the number of cases to take that month. |
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Which service provided by the legal nurse consultant offers a bottom-line opinion to the attorney about a case in question?
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Defining the standard of care. |
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Organizing the medical record. |
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Interviewing a witness. |
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Screening the case for merit. |
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Which is the most important factor related to screening a case for merit?
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The legal nurse consultant is a protector of healthcare providers. |
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The legal nurse consultant impacts the economics involved in a case. |
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The legal nurse consultant gives the attorney a preliminary legal opinion. |
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The legal nurse consultant acts as a vigilante for injured people. |
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As a legal nurse consultant, your primary role is to:
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Represent nursing standards and uphold the standards of the nursing profession. |
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Organize and paginate the medical record. |
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Represent all healthcare providers involved in the case. |
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Help identify areas of the nursing profession that need to change. |
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Which of the following makes a legal nurse consultant most valuable to an attorney when an expert witness is needed?
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Ability to act and dress professionally for trial. |
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Ability to locate the highest paid expert witness. |
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Possession of a contact list of physicians and nurses appropriately regarded as experts. |
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Possession of years of experience working in the healthcare arena. |
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Which statement is true regarding the legal nurse consultant's role in interviewing clients and key witnesses?
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The client and key witnesses are usually more comfortable talking to the attorney. |
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Nurses lack strong interviewing skills. |
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Attorneys' legal skills make them able to interview the client better than nurses. |
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Nurses are naturals at interviewing because they talk to patients and their families everyday. |
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On what kinds of cases do attorneys benefit from the services of a legal nurse consultant?
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Any case involving health, illness, or injury issues. |
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Any case defining the standard of care for nursing, medicine, and other healthcare providers. |
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Cases involving medical malpractice only. |
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Criminal, breach of contract, and property damage cases. |
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