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Career Objective:
Highly-knowledgeable, competent, and certified professional seeking a Legal Nurse position in a reputed hospital to use my expertise in solving complex patient cases, identifying frauds, and ensuring appropriate punishment for medical malpractices.
Summary of Skills:
- Sound knowledge of medical terms, treatment procedures, and clinical terminologies for preparing accurate case papers
- Familiar with performing reviews and analysis of patients’ medical records, and identifying medical malpractices
- Capable of conducting interviews of patient as well as his family to recognize and secure expert witnesses
- Adept in assisting attorneys in understanding medical terminology and cases
- Team player and possess exceptional organizational skills
- Detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving skills
Work Experience:
Certified Legal Nurse
Frisbee Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
November 2014 – Present
- Assisting law professionals in various cases such as medical malpractice, insurance frauds as well as workers’ compensation
- Coordinating with the nursing staff to organize, tabulate, and index medical records as well as preparing medical chronologies to appropriately present the case in the court
- Facilitating communication and understanding between clients, attorneys, witnesses, and providing litigation support by composing and analyzing various medical documents
- Screening new cases for medical merit, summarizing medical records, assembling timelines of medical events and working with legal parties to help them understand hospital treatments and discrepancies
- Studying medical cases and determining the course of legal procedures
- Examining patients’ medical charts for signs of tampering or malpractice, and explaining it to involved legal advisor
- Translating health-care language and medical terms for the attorneys or other legal staff
Registered Nurse
BJC Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA
September 2011 – October 2014
- Consulted with the health-care providers regarding critical patients, and administered medication under their supervision
- Worked in the neonatal department to provide comfort and care to mothers post delivery as well as expecting mothers
- Monitored patients during dialysis to assess in any emergent changes in the patient’s condition, and communicated observed problems to family members and concerned doctor
- Coordinated with nursing staff to monitor the assigned patients in various departments for noticing changed behavior, and prepared report about response given to the medication
- Attended research seminars and training sessions to stay up-to-date about the latest medical equipment for providing quality care to the patients
- Worked with nurses in the emergency and trauma department, and administered injections to patients undergoing skin grafting treatment
- Assisted the clinical doctors to perform operational procedures on patients being treated for heart ailments, organ transplants or plastic surgeries
Internship:
Nursing Intern
NJC Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA
July 2009 – August 2011
- Worked under the supervision of senior nurses to provide direct nursing care to assigned patients, and prepared weekly medical reports
- Coordinated with the physicians and other doctors to offer designated treatment to patients to ensure quality care
- Regularly assessed patients in intensive care unit to make notes of their vital parameters, and informed the concerned doctor regarding abnormal observations
- Coordinated with other nursing interns to perform various duties like collecting samples for laboratory tests, and collected reports from pathological lab
- Assisted other nursing interns to conduct rounds in various departments to identify uneasiness in patients, and provided comfort to them
- Reviewed patient’s progress daily and updated medical charts in his room to give accurate information to concerned doctors
- Maintained a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for the patients/families in accordance with hospital standards
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Reference:
On request.