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Do you feel that you have the ability to help resolve conflicts between people? Are you able to listen impartially to both sides of a dispute? If so, you may have a future as a mediator. And if you don’t, you can learn a lot from this podcast about how understanding the mediation process can allow you to help your client, the attorney.

An LNC, mediator, and mediator trainer, Jaime Gerrie, shares what she’s learned in her career as a mediator. She emphasizes that as nurses, we’ve been trained to act as mediators. We may mediate between physicians and patients, fellow nurses, and other members of the medical community.

As LNCs, we have familiarity with a wide range of medical-legal issues. This makes mediation a natural role for us to consider. It’s important to understand that neutrality is a principal aspect of mediation. The mediator’s job is to listen to both sides, as well as study body language and other subtle indications about how well the mediation is going.

The non-mediating LNCs may often find themselves in a mediation setting. While they may advocate for their clients, they can play valuable roles as observers and take their clients aside and recommend paths toward reconciliation of an issue.

There has never been a better time to consider this career. With the mounting backup of court cases and the high cost of conducting a trial, wise attorneys will consider engaging in the mediation process. Listening to or reading this podcast may open you up to a new, rewarding career.

Join me in this episode of; Is the Nurse Mediator Role Right for You? Jaimee Gerrie

• What is mediation?
• What role does an LNC play in mediation?
• What useful information can a non-mediating LNC bring to the discussion?
• How can the non-mediating LNC guide her attorney client?
• Is legal advice part of a mediator’s role?
• What qualities does a person need to become a successful mediator?

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Join us for our 7th Virtual Conference!

LNC Success is a Livecast Virtual Conference 3-day event designed for legal nurse consultants just like you!

Pat Iyer and Barbara Levin put together THE first Legal Nurse Consulting Virtual Conference in July 2020.

They are back with their 7th all-new conference based on what attendees said they’d find most valuable. This new implementation and networking event is designed for LNCs at any stage in their career.

Build your expertise, attract higher-paying attorney clients, and take your business to the next level.

After the LNC Success Virtual Conference, you will leave with clarity, confidence, and an effective step-by-step action plan that you can immediately implement in your business.

Your Presenter of Is the Nurse Mediator Role Right for You? Jaimee Gerrie

Jaimee Gerrie has been a registered nurse for greater than 28 years and a legal nurse consultant since 2017. She is the principal of UPvision Consulting, LLC. She is a standard of care expert for cases involving nursing education, adult acute care, long term care, home health care and general nursing practice standards. She is a mediator and has been mediating regularly since 2019. Jaimee is highly skilled in virtual mediation processes. She is certified as a mediator trainer and can teach both the 16 hour and 40 hour certification courses. Jaimee earned national mediation certification through the National Association of Certified Mediators in 2021Karen can be contacted at karenharmonmedlegal@yahoo.com

Connect with Jaimee https://www.upvisionconsulting.com/ or on social media

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One of the most critical areas of nursing care is labor and delivery, an area where timely decisions and action can mean the difference between life and death. Karen Harmon, a labor and delivery expert, shares her experience both as an obstetric nurse and an LNC who reviews labor and delivery cases.

Karen explains, as someone who has worked in hospitals with different qualities of obstetrical care, that a rural hospital setting may not provide as speedy a mobilization as a large urban one. However, the guidelines are the same for all obstetrical units. The failure to observe them has caused many medical malpractice suits, which, when successfully pursued, yield large payouts.

Some hospitals allow nurses greater initiative to make emergency decisions to order a C section. This flexibility has saved many maternal and infant lives.

A key practice to prevent infant and maternal mortality is fetal monitoring, a procedure that has evolved greatly over the years. Several lawsuits are based on the failure to correctly follow this procedure and to recognize when trouble looms.

Karen provides the LNC reviewing a case several important questions to ask about the case. These alone make the podcast worth a listen or a read. You will want this podcast in your toolbox

Join me in this episode of Legal Nurse Podcast to learn about an Emergency Cesarean Section – Done Quickly Enough? Karen Harmon

• What causes delayed deliveries?
• What is the 30-minute rule?
• What do different levels assigned to hospitals mean?
• What does “hospital culture” mean for obstetrical nurses?
• How does improper fetal monitoring affect delivery?

Listen to our podcasts or watch them using our app, Expert.edu, available at legalnursebusiness.com/expertedu.

Join us for our 7th Virtual Conference!

LNC Success is a Livecast Virtual Conference 3-day event designed for legal nurse consultants just like you!

Pat Iyer and Barbara Levin put together THE first Legal Nurse Consulting Virtual Conference in July 2020.

They are back with their 7th all-new conference based on what attendees said they’d find most valuable. This new implementation and networking event is designed for LNCs at any stage in their career.

Build your expertise, attract higher-paying attorney clients, and take your business to the next level.

After the LNC Success Virtual Conference, you will leave with clarity, confidence, and an effective step-by-step action plan that you can immediately implement in your business.

Your Presenter of Emergency Cesarean Section – Done Quickly Enough? Karen Harmon

Karen Harmon is an LNC with 28 years of experience in labor and delivery.

Karen can be contacted at karenharmonmedlegal@yahoo.com

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This podcast is different from others we’ve done. Jean Cooper documents her role and that of a multitude of experts in the case of a 19-year-old African American single mother, Susan, in Arizona who was convicted of murdering her 10-month-old daughter, Lily.

The mother had a healthy, active older daughter, but her younger girl had failed to thrive. Although she took the little girl for well-baby visits, this was not noted. In addition, when the child was 10 months old, the mother took her to the ER for an upper respiratory condition.

The doctor failed to document the large amount of ketones in released urine that day; nor did he mention that she was underweight. She weighed 11 pounds, and the normal weight for a 10-month baby is 16 pounds. It seems likely that early diagnosis and treatment could have averted tragedy. Instead, Lily developed another respiratory condition that resulted in her death.

The team of experts and lawyers involved sought to reverse the conviction based on new evidence and reinterpretation of hospital records. Jean documents the many ways in which virtually every practitioner involved arrived at conclusions that put the blame on Susan for Lily’s death. The team with whom she worked concluded instead that congenital conditions had led to the death.

Listen to or read this podcast to learn how this case was resolved.

Join me in this episode of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Exonerating an Imprisoned Mother – Jean Cooper

• What is a post-conviction relief case?
• How do assumptions color diagnoses?
• What challenges are involved in trying to reverse a conviction?
• How does prejudice influence interpretations of medical data?
• Why is it crucial to assess data on its own merits and dig deeper when they are ambiguous?

Listen to our podcasts or watch them using our app, Expert.edu, available at legalnursebusiness.com/expertedu.

You can still order the recordings for our 7th Virtual Conference!

LNC Success™ is a Virtual Conference 3-day event designed for legal nurse consultants just like you!

Pat Iyer and Barbara Levin put together THE first Legal Nurse Consulting Virtual Conference in July 2020.

They are back with their 7th all-new conference based on what attendees said they’d find most valuable. This new implementation and networking event is designed for LNCs at any stage in their career.

Build your expertise, attract higher-paying attorney clients, and take your business to the next level.

After the LNC Success™ Virtual Conference, you will leave with clarity, confidence, and an effective step-by-step action plan that you can immediately implement in your business.

Your Presenter of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Exonerating an Imprisoned Mother – Jean Cooper

After earning an Associate’s Degree in Nursing, I started my career in a Surgical ICU and was hooked on critical care nursing . While working in several different critical care settings I earned a BSN, and MSN. I also discovered nursing within the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA). After about 20 years at the beside in critical care, I switched gears and became a Women Veterans Healthcare Program Manager and worked to improve equal access to quality healthcare for women veterans in the VA. I transitioned away from the VA and began working as a legal nurse consultant for a medical malpractice defense law firm. When I had studied and accumulated enough hours of experience, I became a legal nurse consultant – certified (LNCC). Currently, I am an independent LNCC working with attorneys in the areas of medical malpractice, personal injury and criminal defense.

I have been a registered nurse for more than 40 years and I reviewed my first case as an LNC about 30 years ago. I have earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing and have been an LNCC for 13 years. My independent LNC business name is Benchmark Legal Nurse Consulting, which is a LLC. I am passionate about using my nursing skills to assist attorneys in case development, whether it is medical malpractice or criminal defense. (I don’t have a good head shot at this time)

Connect with Jean www.jeankcooperlnc.com