Hospice Patients Alliance: Consumer Advocacy


Find Legal Nurse Consultants
To Review Your Case


If you are considering filing a civil suit or getting a criminal conviction in a wrongful death, negligence or involuntary euthanasia case, you will need an attorney's legal counsel and quite often, a nurse legal consultant's review of your loved one's case. An attorney or criminal prosecutor will not even take a case on officially, until it has been reviewed by medical and nursing experts who review the medical record and other evidence. Nursing legal consultants can help establish a case for the civil courts and also point out violations of standards of care that may get a prosecutor to go forward with a criminal case.

A legal nurse consultant does not give out legal or medical advice, but rather evaluates the case from a nursing perspective to determine whether or not the nursing standards of care were or were not violated. If you are working with an attorney, or seeking to work with an attorney, make sure that an expert legal nurse consultant (or physician) is consulted to get an evaluation of the case from a clinical perspective.

Need to File Complaint with State Nursing Board

In addition, if you are considering some form of legal action, most courts will want to know what the state Nursing Board has determined with regard to the case. You can file a complaint with the State Nursing Board as a necessary first step toward legal action. It is wise to get a nursing review of the case before filing a complaint with the State Nursing Board, since an expert nurse may point out areas of malpractice or violations of standards of care which you may not be aware of.

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.

  • KIM K KUEBLER DNP, RN, ANP-CS
    3 Brevard Point Road
    Savannah, GA 31410
    Tel. 912.547.0905
    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 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 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. She has taught palliative care at Emory, Vanderbilt, and Sacred Heart Universities and is practicing as an adult Nurse Practitioner.



    • 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/hire/locator.cfm. The site has other information about legal nurse consultants that is quite helpful.







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