About LNCtips.com

About LNCtips.com

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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 Plaintiff and Defense. 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 consultant program at Florida Risk Management and the Legal Studies Institute continuing education program at Florida International University. She is currently a full time LNC in a Defense firm that specializes in 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 degree as a practitioner faculty. Katy has held mid-level management and chief nurse executive positions in major healthcare systems.

Katy first started working with attorneys thirty years ago when she functioned as a liaison between attorneys and staff nurses for deposition and trial preparation. She formalized those past experiences by starting an independent consulting practice and then 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 Legal Nurse Consultants to become top performers.

Katy is a member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants and is a Past President of its former South Florida chapter. She was a reviewer for the third edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice.