This exciting program prepares medical professionals for a career in the legal field as legal nurse consultants. Building on your medical education and possible clinical experience, this course provides the RN and PA with fundamental skills necessary to advise law firms, health care providers, insurance companies, and governmental agencies regarding medically related issues and to appear in court as expert witnesses. The course teaches legal concepts related to the health care industry, as well as the role a legal nurse consultant might play in litigation areas such as medical malpractice, toxic torts, product liability, personal injury, wrongful death, criminal law, and workers’ compensation. Any RN or PA interested in entering the legal field can benefit from the education provided by this course. The course is also open to anyone interested in the field of forensic testimony and medical-legal issues, but participants without an RN or PA background might not be able to take the LNCC exam after graduation. Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC) is a discretionary test separate from this training course that experienced registered nurses graduating from this course may decide to sit for. LNCC test eligibility requirements are discussed during this training course; however, RNs graduating from this course need not take the LNCC in order to practice as legal nurse consultants.
To be eligible to take the LNCC examination, candidates must have the following at the time of application:
- current licensure as a registered nurse in the United States or its territories, with a full and unrestricted license.
- a minimum of five years of experience practicing as a registered nurse.
- evidence of 2000 hours of legal nurse consulting experience within the past five years.
Those who meet the eligibility criteria and successfully complete the examination will earn the Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC®) credential. For more information regarding the LNCC exam visit http://lncc.aalnc.org/page/upcoming-examinations-and-fees
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah Nurses Associations are members of the Western Multi-State Division.
This continuing nursing education activity is approved by the Western Multi-State Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Successful graduates will receive a certificate for 42 contact hours of continuing nursing education from The Center for Legal Studies that they may be able to use to fulfill continuing education requirements.
- View the Course Syllabus
- Review the material as many times as necessary for full retention of the information.
- Student benefits from direct interaction with the instructor and other students by way of email and a discussion board.
- This course focuses on Legal Theory and Terminology, Ethics, Litigation Process, Employment Areas and Fundamentals of Legal Writing.
- Specific attention will be given to Legal Nurse Consultant Practice in Torts, Crimes and and Contract Breaches.
- Student has 7 weeks to complete the online course.
- Student emails assignments and exams.
- Once registered, your password and access information will be sent in time for the start of class.