Medical Insight LLC

Gwen Rogers, RN

DBA, MSB, BSN, HACP-IP, CLNC, CIC, FAPIC

Certified Legal Nurse Consultant

Professional, Insightful, Experienced

You know law. I know healthcare.

I can save you time and money on your medical cases

Gwen Rogers, RN

With over 30 years of healthcare experience, Gwen Rogers has the expertise to provide consultation in a variety of areas of medical and nursing practice. Her professional experience includes: the medical office setting, medical-surgical nursing, cardiac intensive care, surgical intensive care, long term care, home health care, camp nursing, and epidemiology & infection prevention. She can be an asset as a consulting expert in any medical case.

In addition to a Bachelor degree in Nursing, she holds a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration on Healthcare Administration, and a Doctorate in Business with a focus on Organizational Leadership. She holds a certificate in Care Management and is certified in Healthcare Accreditation, Infection Prevention, and Legal Nurse Consulting. Gwen is a Fellow in the Association of Professionals in Infection Prevention and Control.

Gwen is connected to legal nursing experts all over the country and has access to medical and nurse testifying experts in all specialties. Contact Gwen for excellent support for your medical cases, whether you need behind the scenes help or help getting experts to testify.

29 Ways Legal Nurse Consultants aide Attorneys with medical cases:

  1. Screen cases for merit saving attorney’s time and money

  2. Define applicable standards of care.

  3. Define deviations from or adherences to the applicable standards of care.

  4. Assess the alleged damages and/or injuries.

  5. Identify factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages and/or injuries

  6. Organize, tab, and paginate medical records.

  7. Summarize, translate, and interpret medical records.

  8. Identify and recommend potential defendants.

  9. Conduct literature searches and integrate the literature and standards/guidelines into the case analysis.

  10. Research and analyze the validity and reliability of research studies relied on by all parties.

  11. Identify and review relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures, other essential documents, and other tangible items.

  12. Interview clients, key witnesses, and experts.

  13. Consult with healthcare experts.

  14. Identify types of testifying experts.

  15. Locate and interface with expert witnesses.

  16. Communicate with potential testifying experts.

  17. Analyze and compare expert witness reports and other work products.

  18. Service as liaison between the attorney and healthcare providers, testifying experts, parties, witnesses, and other consultants.

  19. Prepare interrogatories.

  20. Review and draft responses to various legal documents and correspondence for the attorney’s signature.

  21. Assist in exhibit preparation.

  22. Prepare deposition and trial (cross or direct) questions.

  23. Review, analyze, and summarize depositions, including past testimony.

24. Attend depositions, trials, review panels, arbitration, and mediation hearings.

24. Help prepare witnesses and experts for depositions and trial.

26. Develop written reports for use as study tools by the attorney.

27. Coordinate and attend independent medical examinations (IMEs).

28. Coordinate and assist in facilitating focus groups and mock trials.

29. Assist in development of life care plans.

For more than 30 years, certified legal nurse consultants have acted as collaborators, educators, and strategists by offering support in medical-related litigation and standards of nursing practice.

Certified legal nurse consultants can translate complex issues into clear, common understandable terms for the legal team, juries, and judges by apply nursing education and experiential background to the medical legal issues of each case.

CLNCs not only simplify the facts found in the medical record but they have the ability to call attention to information that may be missing or falsified, policies or protocols that were not followed, and they know possible “behind the scenes” considerations that should be taken into account, because CLNCs, as RNs, understand the nuances of the complicated medical record and the healthcare system.