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Case types · Nov 9, 2026 · 10 min read

Post-Operative Opioid Overdose: Nurse Failure to Monitor

A post-operative opioid overdose is a nursing failure to monitor when the chart shows warning signs that nurses missed, ignored, or did not act on. These signs include rising sedation, slowing or shallow breathing, and snoring with pauses. It is not automatically nursing negligence, because some events trace back to...

For nurse consultants

For nurse consultants · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

AI Tools for Legal Nurse Consultants: What's Safe

Which AI tasks are reasonable for a legal nurse consultant and which are not, the questions to ask before records go into any tool, and a verification routine that keeps your work product defensible.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Automated Dispensing Cabinet Records as Evidence

The dispensing cabinet logs every drug a nurse removes, returns or wastes. Matched against the orders and the MAR, it shows whether a medication was given as charted. What the report contains, how to get it and what a nurse checks.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Can a Physician Testify on Nursing Standard of Care?

Whether a physician can testify about the nursing standard of care depends on the jurisdiction. How courts generally approach it, why nurses often cannot address causation, and how to pair nurse and physician experts.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Choking and Aspiration Deaths in Nursing Homes

Choking and aspiration deaths in nursing homes often trace back to a swallowing plan that existed on paper but not on the tray or at the table. What a long-term-care nurse checks, and the records that show it.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Central Line Infections (CLABSI) and Nursing Care

How a nurse reviewer evaluates a central line infection case: the insertion and maintenance bundle, the line documentation that proves or disproves daily care, the records to request, and why not every CLABSI is a breach.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 6 min read

CMS Form 2567 Survey Reports in Nursing Home Cases

What a CMS Form 2567 is, how to read its F-tags and severity letters, how to tie a cited deficiency to your client's chart, and what a long-term-care nurse checks before you rely on it.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 6 min read

Daubert and Frye Challenges to Nurse Experts

How Daubert and Frye apply to nurse expert testimony, the arguments opposing counsel actually raise against nurse experts, and how to build a nursing opinion that holds up at the admissibility stage.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Deposing a Nurse in a Malpractice Case

How to prepare for and take the deposition of a bedside nurse in a malpractice case: the records to build the outline from, the topics to cover, the questions that go wrong, and where a nurse consultant helps.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Dialysis Clinic Negligence: Records to Request

Outpatient dialysis creates a detailed record of every treatment: weights, pressures, alarms and the nurse's assessments. What to request from a dialysis clinic, and what a nurse with dialysis experience looks for in it.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

EHR Audit Trails in Nursing Malpractice Cases

The audit trail shows when each nursing entry was actually written, changed or viewed, which the printed chart cannot. What it contains, how to request it in a usable form, and how a nurse reads it without mistaking normal workflow for tampering.

For nurse consultants

For nurse consultants · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Your First Deposition as a Nurse Expert Witness

What happens at a nurse expert witness deposition, how to prepare with the retaining attorney, the questions you will be asked, and how to answer without guessing, arguing or going beyond nursing.