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BONNAR LEGAL NURSE CONSULTING

Wendy L. Bonnar BS, RN, WHNP, MSN
Legal Nurse Consultant and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
Email: wenste123@cox.net                        Phone: (619) 589-6992

Services

 

Medical Records Review To:
    a. Organize, tab and paginate medical records.
    b. Identify issues and facts to determine merits of case.
    c. Screen or investigate medical records for missing documents.
    
Case Analysis To:
    a. Identify the deviations from, and adherences to, the applicable 
        standards of care, policies and procedures, and accreditation
        standards.
    b. Identify strengths and weaknesses of case with supporting
        recommendations.
    c. Develop theory of negligence and assist in making causation.

Brief or Comprehensive Reporting On:
    a. Preliminary review and brief opinion report outlining the basic 
        issues and facts to determine merits of a case.
     b. Comprehensive report identifying specific, strengths and         
         weaknesses, and summary of events of issue. Responses to
         allegations of plaintiff or defense, recommendations on testifying
         witnesses, and additonal materials for production.
    c.  Timeline or chronologies of events at issue.

Education of Attorney/Litigation Team/Jurors About:
     
a. Medical terminology, basic anatomy and disease process, and
         medical abreviations.
     b. Major medical issues or facts of case.

Assist Attorney/Litigation Team with:
     a. Preparation of interrogatories and requests for production.
     b. Preparation of questions for discovery, deposition, mediation and
         trial.     
     c. Expert witness identificaton, location and preparation.
     d. Literature and internet searches for standards of care, disease
         pathology, prognosis, causation, complications and statistics.
     e. Attendance at depositions, trials, review panels, artribation and
        mediation.
     f. Attendance as expert witness at deposition and  trial.