One of the major types of nurse entrepreneur is legal nurse consultant (LNC). LNC refers to registered nurse that applies acquired knowledge from nursing education, training and extensive clinical experience to function as a healthcare provider which attains the capability to evaluate the standard of care, identify problems and develop solutions through specialized training that focuses on the consultation related to medical-legal claims. LNCs are trained to solve complicated situations, establish functional solutions, deliver health education to patients, patients’ relatives and healthcare professionals, formulate personalized care plan in promoting patient’s degree of wellness, reflect delivered care to ensure safety as well as offer views
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Expert witnesses are those who assist jury by offering views and opinions regarding the nursing negligence issues that considered as malpractice. Nurse expert witness helps to provide high quality evidence regarding the healthcare issues in aiding the jury to make a fair and rational judgment. Every expert witness is required to attain necessary skills, broad specialized knowledge and experiences in order to assure the opinions given are accurate and reliable. Expert witness should only give opinions and advices that falls in his or her field of knowledge. For instance, an expert witness in emergency nursing in urban, acute-care hospital may not be qualified to offers opinion on outpost emergency nursing. The expert witness should not have any connection with the events or person in relation to the litigation to prevent bias.
In order to become a nurse expert witness, ones’ should have minimum of five years experiences in the area of testimony to ensure and prove that ones’ is fully familiar and expertized in that particular field. In addition to that, nurse expert witness is required to hold a certification of Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC). The most common cases that require expert witness are falls, IV infiltration, pressure ulcer, medication injuries and failure in notifying the physician regarding patient’s deteriorating …show more content…
They also help to manage the educational programs and resources to deliver a profitable educational plan. As for clinical nurse educators, they help to guide novice nurses while maintaining high level of clinical competence and share their expertise. Nurse educators sharpen the critical thinking skills of pre-registration nursing learners as it is globally recognized that this will highly influence their academic performance. They also encompass the use of simulation during clinical practices that helps to promote effective learning
Expert witnesses are those who assist jury by offering views and opinions regarding the nursing negligence issues that considered as malpractice. Nurse expert witness helps to provide high quality evidence regarding the healthcare issues in aiding the jury to make a fair and rational judgment. Every expert witness is required to attain necessary skills, broad specialized knowledge and experiences in order to assure the opinions given are accurate and reliable. Expert witness should only give opinions and advices that falls in his or her field of knowledge. For instance, an expert witness in emergency nursing in urban, acute-care hospital may not be qualified to offers opinion on outpost emergency nursing. The expert witness should not have any connection with the events or person in relation to the litigation to prevent bias.
In order to become a nurse expert witness, ones’ should have minimum of five years experiences in the area of testimony to ensure and prove that ones’ is fully familiar and expertized in that particular field. In addition to that, nurse expert witness is required to hold a certification of Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC). The most common cases that require expert witness are falls, IV infiltration, pressure ulcer, medication injuries and failure in notifying the physician regarding patient’s deteriorating …show more content…
They also help to manage the educational programs and resources to deliver a profitable educational plan. As for clinical nurse educators, they help to guide novice nurses while maintaining high level of clinical competence and share their expertise. Nurse educators sharpen the critical thinking skills of pre-registration nursing learners as it is globally recognized that this will highly influence their academic performance. They also encompass the use of simulation during clinical practices that helps to promote effective learning