Need to File Complaint with State Nursing Board

Get a Nursing Review of the Case

You must have a complete copy of the medical record for a physician or legal nurse consultant to review! Make sure to find a consultant who works for plaintiffs' attorneys rather than defense attorneys (ask them which side they usually work for).

If you are having difficulty getting the chart, please look at some suggestions about how to get the chart. Legal nurse consultants will not take calls over the phone and give an opinion based upon a phone conversation. These consultants are only for those who are definitely pursuing legal action and have the medical record already.

The following legal nurse consultants are listed here only for those definitely seeking legal action and have a complete medical record to mail to them for review. You should have your attorney (or prospective attorney) contact the legal nurse consultants for you, as legal nurse consultants serve as professional advisors to the attorneys in legal cases. providing a review of a specific case from a medical and nursing perspective.

• STEFANIE M. FLETCHER, RN
  Legal Nurse Consultant
  11755 Wilshire Blvd. - Suite 2150
  Los Angeles, California 90025
  Phone (310) 268-0488 Fax (310) 575-0097
  email:   sfletcher@001mediaone.net
  Stefanie has an active license in California, has successfully brought a qui tam suit against a major hospital in Hawaii, works with qui tam specialist, Mark Kleiman, Esq. and is a consultant in legal nursing matters. Stefanie details some of her experiences as a whistleblower at her website: www.justwhisper.com.
  
  
• KIM K. KUEBLER, MN, RN, ANP-CS
  Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
  1430 Markan Drive
  Atlanta GA 30306
  Tel. 404-895-0006 Fax: 404-888-9714
  Kkkuebler@aol.com
  
  
  Biographical Sketch:
  
  Kim has been actively involved in the field of palliative care for over two decades. She was the first nurse practitioner nominated to the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association's board of directors and participated in the role development of the nurse practitioner at the first hospice in the United States (The Connecticut Hospice). Kim is a graduate from Emory University in Atlanta, GA and a Mayday Pain Fellow from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She has studied with international experts in palliative care in Canada and in the United Kingdom where she followed Macmillan nurses into the communities of Oxford England. She was selected to participate in the World Health Organization and AIMS palliative medicine initiative in China and has served as a commissioner of the Michigan Governors Commission for End-of-Life Care. She was recently invited to attend the Institutes of Medicine Summit on Health Care Reform as it relates to pain in advanced cancer and palliative care. Kim has contributed extensively to the palliative nursing literature and recently received the American Journal of Nursing Textbook of the Year Award for End-of-Life Care Clinical Practice Guidelines, and the American Medical Textbook Award for Palliative Practices from A-Z for the Bedside Clinician. She recently received the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner's Award for State Excellence in Georgia and has been invited to be a member of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee in Washington, DC.
  
  

• You can search for a legal nurse consultant by using the LNC Locator, found on the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants' web site, www.aalnc.org/locator. The site has other information about legal nurse consultants that is quite helpful.

Click on the Hospice Issues link above and then you can sign up to join the discussion of issues in hospice and end of life care, and you will begin to receive email messages from the members of the discussion group. All you need to do is enter your email address, along with your own password, and click the "Subscribe" button.

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