The American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional enhancement and growth of Registered Nurses practicing in the specialty of legal nursing.
The Dallas Chapter serves as a resource for learning, networking, and promoting the awareness of legal nursing as a specialty to attorneys and others in the medical and legal communities.
What is a Legal Nurse Consultant?
"The Legal Nurse Consultant is a Registered Nurse who performs a critical analysis of healthcare facts and issues and their outcomes, for the legal profession, healthcare professions, and others as appropriate. With a strong educational and experiential background, the legal nurse consultant is qualified to assess adherence to standards to healthcare practice as it applies to the nursing and healthcare professions."
Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practice 2cd edition
The chapter holds CE meetings to keep abreast of issues pertinent to our work.
Non-nurses who work with medical-legal issues are welcome to attend our educational presentations.