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Katy Jones

This site is a compilation of tips, tools, and timesavers created by Katy Jones, legal nurse consultant, for new LNCs. Katy has analyzed medical malpractice, personal injury, and nursing home cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. In addition, she has been a supervising LNC who trained legal nurses in medical record analysis, report writing, internet research, trial preparation, and use of software such as CaseMap, PowerPoint, and other applications.  She has taught in the legal nurse consulting programs at Florida Risk Management and the Legal Studies Institute at Florida International University. Her most recent position was as a full time LNC in a Defense firm that specialized in complex physician medical malpractice cases.

Katy has a BSN from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MSN from Texas Woman's University. Katy's clinical background includes medical-surgical, telemetry, and critical care. She has taught Nursing to baccalaureate students as an assistant professor and nursing standards and nursing management to RNs pursuing their BSN as a practitioner faculty.  She has held mid-level management and chief nurse executive positions in major healthcare systems.
               
Katy first started working with attorneys almost 40 years ago when she functioned as a liaison between staff nurses and attorneys for deposition and trial preparation. She formalized those experiences by starting an independent consulting practice and later took a position as an in-house legal nurse consultant. As a former supervisor of LNCs, Katy has reviewed countless resumes, conducted numerous interviews, worked with hundreds of experts, and trained new LNCs to become top performers.

Katy has been a member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) and is a Past President of its former South Florida chapter. She is the co-author of AALNC's online course module, Researching Medical Literature & Other Information and is the author of a chapter in the 4th edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice on the same topic. She has also written journal articles and chapters for publications related to legal nurse consulting.