Local Legal Nurse Consultant helps save LIVES!?

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - July 22, 2015 - PRLog -- Fredericksburg, VA has a local Legal Nurse Consultant that is helping save lives and making healthcare better for everyone in her local area and throughout the state of Virginia. Elizabeth Bird, BSN, RN, PLNC, CMSRN is the owner of Bird’s Professional Legal Nurse Consultants, LLC. Her, and her team of professionals, strive to improve the health care industry throughout our region. First off, many may ask “What is a Legal Nurse Consultant?” A Legal Nurse Consultant is a registered nurse who utilizes their existing expertise as a healthcare professional along with specialized legal nurse consultant training to consult on medical-related cases. Next folks will ask “How can a Legal Nurse Consultant help save lives? Aren’t they just helping lawyers stick it to the healthcare industry?”

Not in the least. Legal Nurse Consultants are first and foremost experts in their areas of nursing specialty. While they do assist lawyers on both the prosecution and defense side of the law through their expert witness testimony, they do so to promote a better standard of care throughout the healthcare industry. The cases they assist on may be personal injury cases, they also assist with medical malpractice and personal negligence cases along with many others. But they don’t stop there; they also assist lawyers in assessing cases for merit, in many cases helping to avoid costly and needless lawsuits and litigation. They also provide vital assistance throughout the case cycle to the litigation team by also being able to provide medical record indexing and chronology, and vital interpretation and insight into healthcare standards of care. This all equates to lower costs to the lawyers and increased speed in case preparation and handling.

In addition, they directly assist doctors’ offices by conducting third party medical record audits. These audits, besides being required by current healthcare regulations, assist the practices by identifying discrepancies in documentation, treatment, and practice standards of care. This ultimately works from more of an outside position of healthcare to promote a better standard of care. This better standard of care leads to higher levels of customer service and satisfaction, leading to more patients being willing to seek out health professionals for advice and guidance, as well as increased patient compliance and adherence to the plan of care.

All of this equates to more lives saved! So if you are a lawyer looking to augment your legal team while reducing your overall costs or if you are a doctor’s office looking to increase your adherence to industry standards, overall standard of care, or just want to see where your practice issues may be, contact a local area legal nurse consultant such as the ones provided by Bird’s Professional Legal Nurse Consultants, LLC (http://www.bplnc.com) today.