Medical Legal Resources

Beach StonesA professional Legal Nurse Consultant must conduct exhaustive research in medical science and healthcare practice to support the facts in a medical legal case. The following are a portion of resources utilized by Kathleen A. Mary, RN, CLNC:

Professional Medical Associations

American Society of Anesthesiologists www.asahq.org
American Association of Blood Banks www.aabb.org
National Cancer Institute www.cancer.gov
American Cancer Society www.cancer.org
American College of Cardiology www.cardiosource.org
Society of Critical Care Medicine www.sccm.org
American College of Emergency Physicians www.acep.org
National Association of EMS Physicians www.naemsp.org
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists www.aace.com
American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons www.acfas.org
American College of Forensic Examiners www.acfei.com
National Association of Medical Examiners www.thename.org
American College of Gastroenterology www.gi.org
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons www.sages.org
American Holistic Medical Association www.holisticmedicine.org
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology www.apic.org
Infectious Disease Society www.idsociety.org
American Society of Laser Medicine & Surgery www.aslms.org
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics www.aslme.org
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants www.aalnc.org
National Alliance for Legal Nurse Consultants www.legalnurse.com
American Medical Association www.ama-assn.org
American Academy of Neurology www.aan.com
American Association of Neurological Surgeons www.aans.org
American College of Obstetrics & Gynecologists www.acog.org
American Academy of Ophthalmology www.aao.org
American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons www.aaos.org
American Association for Pain Management Nursing www.aspmn.org
College of American Pathologists www.cap.org
American College of Pediatricians www.acpeds.org
American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists www.ashp.org/
American College of Physicians www.acponline.org
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology www.abpn.com
American College of Radiology www.acr.org
American College of Sports Medicine www.acsm.org
American College of Surgeons www.facs.org
American Association for Thoracic Surgery www.aats.org
American Urological Association www.auanet.org
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine www.acvim.org
American College of Clinical Wound Specialists www.accws.org

Medical Standards & Practice Guidelines

ECRI Institute www.ecri.org
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations www.jcaho.org
National Guideline Clearing House www.guideline.gov

Medical & Healthcare Research

Avoid Medical Errors www.avoidmedicalerrors.com
Center for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC www.cdc.gov
DocFinder www.docboard.org
Drug Watch www.drugwatch.org
eMedicine www.emedicine.medscape.com
Food and Drug Administration/FDA www.fda.gov
Gray’s Anatomy www.bartleby.com
Group B Strep Association www.groupbstrep.org
Harrison’s Principals of Internal Medicine www.accessmedicine.com/
Harvard Countway Library of Medicine www.countway.med.harvard.edu
Lawyers and Judges www.lawyersandjudges.com
Leapfrog Group www.leapfroggroup.org
LifeART www.fotosearch.com
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins www.lww.com
Medline www.medlineplus.gov
Medical Illustrations www.highimpact.com
Medscape www.medscape.com
Merck Manual www.merck.com
MD Consult www.mdconsult.com
Mesothelioma SOS www.mesotheliomasos.com
American Chronic Pain Association www.theacpa.org
American Pain Society www.ampainsoc.org
National Patient Safety Foundation www.npsf.org
National Practitioner Data Bank – American Medical Association www.ama-assn.org
National Practitioner Data Base www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov
New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org
Physicians’ Desk Reference/PDR www.pdr.net
PDR for Consumers www.drugs.com
Preeclampsia Foundation www.preeclampsia.org
PubMed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association www.rsds.org
Restraints & Enablers www.nia.nih.gov
RxList www.rxlist.com
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services www.hhs.gov
U.S. National Library of Medicine www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
WebMD www.webmd.com
World Health Organization www.who.int

Choose a Certified LNC

Kathleen A. Mary, RN, CLNC, has undergone rigorous professional certification. She is committed to continuing professional development and staying current with her knowledge of the latest medical-legal issues and trends. She renews her CLNC certification annually through re-examination.

Two national organizations have developed widely accepted certification requirements for Legal Nurse Consultants:

For more information on Kathleen Mary’s credentials, please contact her.