The Virtual Nurse™

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• For attorneys and law firms only
• Your on-line, in-house legal nurse consultant

• If you are an existing attorney-client (case review/analysis services, minimum of 4 cases per year), this service is free. Please contact Eva to gain access.

• If you become a client, the service will be free.

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Fee

The fee for Virtual Nurse™ is $20.00, twenty dollars per question. If the issue/question requires back and forth dialogue with Virtual Nurse™, this is still considered as one question and a one time charge of $20.00. You will be alert and asked to give approval for the $20.00 charge each time to authorize payment.

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• The attorney emails a question via access to Virtual Nurse™ email address. The Certified Legal Nurse Consultant answers the question either via email or telephone response.

• The attorney emails a question and the Certified Legal Nurse Consultant determines that we need more information. We call you and talk about it or email you for more details, then we answer the question.

• The attorney emails a question, we explain why this is not the type of question which can be answered without looking at the medical records.

Types of questions we can answer?

Example 1: Medical or Health Care Standard or Factual Question

attorney: "Our client was in the ICU and after about a week on the ventilator she still could not breathe on her own, so they made a tracheotomy hole in her neck. She was fine on the ventilator, why this invasive procedure?"

virtual nurse™: " Dear Attorney, It is standard procedure to give a patient a tracheotomy around the 7th day of required mechanical ventilation if the doctors do not foresee the patient improving quickly. Yes, it is indeed an invasive procedure. The reason a tracheostomy is done is because the ventilator going through the mouth or the nose puts the patient at a very high risk for pulmonary infection. The risk of dangerous pulmonary infection is reduced by inserting a tracheostomy.

Example 2: Nursing Opinion Question

attorney: "I just had an initial consultation with a potential client claiming to have been exposed to carbon monoxide. She discovered that her pilot light was off and the gas was on for three months on her living room wall heater unit. She has terrible symptoms."

virtual nurse™: "Dear Attorney, I can tell you right away that if there were no other potential carbon monoxide sources in the house other than this wall unit you speak of, that the client was not exposed to carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is formed by the partial combustion of natural gas. Partial combustion can only occur with a flame. Unless there were other sources of near-by lit flames, this person was only exposed to natural gas, not carbon monoxide.

Before you spend any money on this case, request a copy of the following two documents from the Gas Company: 1. the "gas consumption records" for the residence at the time frame in question, 2. the "gas technician's report" of his findings when he came and discovered this situation.

If you are inclined, I can do an analysis of the medical records and care the client received after this incident for good measure, but I am not too hopeful for this case."


Types of questions we cannot answer?

attorney: "Our client fell out of her hospital bed and broke her hip. Evidently no one was watching her. Does this case have merit?"

virtual nurse™: "Dear Attorney, I cannot determine the merit of this case without looking at the medical records because there are too many detailed factors to investigate."

There will be no charge to your account for this question.

attorney: "Our client was rear-ended by a drunk driver and now has numbness and pain in both arms and hands. The defense is claiming that the MRI only shows soft tissue injuries and that our client's physical symptoms do not correlate with the objective findings. How should we proceed?"

virtual nurse™: "Dear Attorney, I cannot answer this type of question without a full analysis of the medical and police accident records."

There will be no charge to your account for this question.


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