Legal Nurse Consulting Practices: Edition 3

Vernon J. Geberth

Feb 2010 · CRC Press

About this ebook

Over the past generation, the practice of legal nurse consulting has grown to include areas such as life care planning, risk management, and administrative law, as well as taking on a more diversified role in both criminal and civil law and courtroom proceedings. First published in 1997, Legal Nurse Consulting, Principles and Practices provided pro

About the author

Senior Editors
Ann M. Peterson, EdD, MSN, RN, CS, LNCC, president of Ann M. Peterson & Associates, received a diploma in nursing from Boston City Hospital School of Nursing, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, a Master of Science in Nursing, and a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration. Dr. Peterson is an experienced legal nurse consultant working with both defense and plaintiff attorneys on medical malpractice, nursing negligence, personal injury, and criminal cases. She has a background in health care administration and advanced clinical practice, has held an academic appointment as an assistant professor at the graduate level, and has multiple publications to her
credit. She is a current member of AALNC and the past president of the Rhode Island chapter of AALNC. She has also served on the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) Congress on Nursing Practice and the Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Policy and Legislation, and is a panel member of the Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Tribunal.
Lynda Kopishke, MSN, RN, LNCC received her diploma in Nursing from St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Wilmington, Delaware. After many years of successful practice, Ms Kopishke returned to Wilmington University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Nursing. She became certified as a legal nurse consultant in 2000. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consulting at both the local and the national level. She is past editor of the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting, a reviewer for the second edition of Principles and Practices, and a published author and national speaker on topics associated with nursing and legal nurse consulting. She operates an independent consulting business, Forensic Matters. Ms Kopishke has been admitted at trial in several states and at the federal level as an expert witness in standards of nursing care as well as in life c