About This Program

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Thank you for your interest in the University of Central Florida’s Legal Nurse Consultant Program. At the completion of the course, you will receive 27* nursing continuing education contact hours that may be used toward state RN licensing renewal; and if applicable, credit toward renewal of the LNCC credential.

As the leading educational institution in Central Florida, UCF is proud to offer this program supported and produced by members of the Greater Orlando Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. By completing this LNC Certificate Program, you will able to:

• Review medical records pertaining to a case and identify the 4 elements of negligence.
• Locate and select appropriate health care experts who are needed to testify on the strengths or weaknesses of the merits of a case.
• Draft written reports and chronologies for the lawyer, risk manager or claims manager.
• Identify what skills and efforts are necessary to become a successfully practicing legal nurse consultant in today’s market.

UCF has been educating RNs who have a desire to learn about the specialty of legal nurse consulting for more than 6 years. The course instructors are attorneys and credentialed legal nurse consultants from the central Florida area. Our program is conveniently scheduled on Monday evenings and meets for 10 consecutive weeks. The program is offered via live broadcast throughout Central Florida and is also available online. However, this is an “active” program in which you will be required to perform work outside of class time and submit your work product in order to complete the program.

Please explore our website to learn more about the program. We hope to see you in our next class.

Sincerely,

Pamela Curren, RN, BSN, LNCC
Curren Consultants, Inc.
lncjagfan@aol.com

Joan Magnusson, RN, BSN, LHRM, LNCC
JKM Consulting, LLC
jkmconsult@cfl.rr.com

Academic Coordinators

Topics of Study
The focus of this program is on Nursing sciences as opposed to paralegal studies.

• Business principles for the Legal Nurse Consultant.
• Common practice areas of legal nurse consulting: professional liability, workmen's compensation, toxic tort, personal injury, product liability.
• Theory and application of the litigation process.
• Review and analysis of actual cases.
• The legal nurse consultant roles as an expert witness, medical bill auditor, life care planner or Medicare/Medicaid fraud.

Course Objectives
At the completion of this program, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the various roles of the Legal Nurse Consultant in the work environment
• Identify the elements of negligence in a negligence action
• List the steps in the evolution of a lawsuit
• Analyze a negligence claim for merit and standard of care issues
• Develop a format for communicating case issues and findings
• Identify the laws that impact medical malpractice and nursing home negligence claims

*This program is Approved by the Florida Board of Nursing.
CEUs are under provider #50-3656.