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Office of Continuing Education:
Legal Nurse Consultant Program


Registration is open for the Winter/Spring 2010 session.

  • The program includes interactive learning utilizing actual medical records and court cases.
  • Detailed instruction of the litigation process from initial contact with the client through the trial phase will be presented, as well as the role of the Legal Nurse Consultant in each phase.
  • Program includes the expanded role of the Legal Nurse Consultant in the fields of Risk Management, Life Care Planning, Case Management, Workers' Compensation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
  • In depth review of the various legal practice areas will be presented including professional negligence, personal injury, product liability, workers' compensation, toxic torts, expert witness and forensic nursing.
  • *In addition, contact hours are awarded for registered nurses upon successful completion of the following sessions: Intro to LNC and Legal Theory, Medical Record Review/Risk Management, and Medical Research and Expert Witness Location.
  • *LACCEN at The Ohio State University at Lima (OH-008/1-31-12) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
    Module Topics include:
    • Introduction to Legal Nurse Consulting and Legal Theory
    • Medical Record Review/Risk Management
    • Medical Research: Expert Location
    • Nursing Home Litigation
    • Written Reports & Workshop
    • Legal Procedure, Process, Discovery, Trial and Deposition Skills and ADR
    • Medical Record Review of a Case; Forensic Cases, ERISA, HMO, Complex Litigation, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort, EMTLA
    • Life Care Planning, Case Management, IME, Marketing, Business Set-Up
    • Student Review of a Case
    About the Instructors

    Linda Gartman, RN, LNC-C, is President of Gartman Health and Rehabilitation, Inc. Her experience includes general consulting functions for both plaintiff and defense. She provides expertise in cases involving life care planning, rehabilitation and case management for workers' compensation and personal injury cases. Linda is President of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. She also conducts mock trials throughout Ohio.

    Nicole Marie Spring, RN, is the Founder and President of Legal Nurse Consultants and the Listowner of LNCNURSE®, an electronic forum of Legal Nurse Consultants. She is also a founding member of the Cleveland Northeast Ohio AALNC serving in a variety of board positions. She specializes in long term care/nursing home and Nursing Standards of Care with 37 years of professional nursing experience.

    Wanda Burns, RN, is a Legal Nurse Consultant with the law firm of Martin E. White Co., L.P.A. in Warren, Ohio. She assists with wrongful death and personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Wanda also conducts mock trials throughout Ohio for legal professionals. She is one of the founders and Past President of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.