Nurse Expert Consultancy

Medico-legal Nurse Consultants, or Legal Nurse Consultants, should hold a Legal qualification and have legal-profession experience, in addition to registration as a Registered Nurse, to be considered suitably qualified and skilled. 

Nurse Consultants are well informed about their role and the areas in which they practice. Nurse Consultant work does not involve providing clinical care to a patient/s. The focus is on individual client events in the health care setting. 

The predominant client need for Nurse Consultant services is to obtain an Expert report; or simply, promote or develop argument on a relevant issue. 

Our Nurse Expert Consultant service engages in the review of care needs, professional skills and systems of care, as it relates to critical thinking on an issue, risk identification and practice skills within the client's health care event or clinical experience. This involves questioning efficiency and effectiveness of care skills, needs or delivery and systems of care, translation of information in policy and procedures, and identification of stakeholders across disciplines in a systematic exploration of  the issues. 

The  Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia require all Registered Nurse healthcare professionals to practice in a way that is  person-centred and evidence-based with preventative, curative, formative, supportive, restorative and palliative elements.  

Practice Standards involve:

• Thinking critically and analysing nursing practice
• Engage in therapeutic and professional relationships
• Maintain the capability for practice
• Comprehensively conduct assessments
• Develop a plan for nursing practice
• Provide safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
• Evaluate outcomes to inform nursing practice

As regulated health professionals, Registered Nurses are responsible and accountable to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.