Enhance your caseload with more criminal cases
Attract attorneys handling criminal cases
Position yourself as the go-to Legal Nurse Consultant for help with criminal cases
Benefits of watching this training: The Path of the Bullet: A Guide to Criminal Cases
Earn 10.75 nursing contact hours
Valid for licensure renewals, recertifications, and LNCC renewals
This is an optional benefit involving $15 paid to the contact hour certificate provider, Taylor College. The provider is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP-3285. CE credit is accepted in all states that require mandatory continuing education for relicensure. Call 1-800-743-4006 with CE questions. There will be a $15 fee, paid directly to the provider, if you want the CE certificate.
Every Contract Leaves a Trace: Introduction to Forensic Evidence with Victoria Morton
What do you need to know about forensic evidence? You’ll gain an ability to define evidence, forensic evidence and the chain of custody. This session reveals how prosecutors, experts, and defense attorneys or public defenders use evidence in criminal investigations and court proceedings.
Meet the Speaker
Victoria Morton MS, BSN, RN SANE-A, CP-SANE holds her SANE-A Certification through the IAFN and CP-SANE through the Texas Office of Attorney General. She received her master’s degree from The University of Florida with a Forensic Science focus, has received additional training in Forensic and Clinical Evaluation of Gunshot Wounds and Death Investigation, and has served as a Legal Consultant since 2013. She currently works at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas on the Forensic Nurse, Sexual Assault and Violence Response Team.
Victoria Morton
MS, BSN, RN SANE-A, CP-SANE
Forensic Evidence Collection in the Healthcare Setting with Tristan Ashly Wristen
Forensic evidence collected by healthcare providers can be utilized during criminal investigations and court proceedings. What forensic evidence might be present in a gunshot wound case? And how is it collected?
This training guides you in evaluating the types of forensic evidence that might be collected by healthcare providers in a gunshot wound case. This presentation provides you with the ability to perform a comprehensive evaluation of a gunshot wound case.
Meet the Speaker
Tristan Ashly Wristen MSN BSN RN FN-CSA, SANE-A spent ten years as an Emergency Department RN. She is board-certified as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and has qualified as an expert in sexual assault, strangulation, and injury causation. Tristan is a professor and teaches undergraduate nursing students at Ocean County College and precepts graduate students in forensic nursing at Monmouth University in New Jersey.
Tristan Ashly Wristen
MSN BSN RN FN-CSA, SANE-A
Basics of Criminal Case Consulting Part I with Teresa Devitt-Lynch
Legal Nurse Consultants can contribute significantly to the prosecution or defense of persons indicted for causing death or bodily injury via gunshot wounds.
The role of the LNC is not to determine who committed the act in these types of cases, but rather to evaluate and analyze the medical evidence available to assist attorneys in building strong prosecutions or defense litigations.
Through this recording, you will be able to evaluate medically-relevant indicted charges and analyze the available medical evidence to support or refute those charges.
You will be able to evaluate the criminal charges associated with gunshot wounds, discuss the process of forensically analyzing the medical evidence and look for a connection between the medical evidence and the indicated charges.
Meet the Speaker
Teresa Devitt-Lynch MSN RN AFN-BC, SANE-A is a certified adult Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and board certified Advanced Forensic Nurse. The proprietor of the INTREPID Forensic Healthcare Consulting firm, she provides criminal case consultation and expert witness services for military and civilian courts. Recently relocated to North Dakota, Teresa provides services to victims of sexual assault and battering.
Teresa Devitt-Lynch
MSN RN AFN-BC, SANE-A
Case Analysis and Conclusion
With the details from a real case, you’ll have an opportunity to evaluate the case and draw some conclusions based on the evidence. This recording will focus on identifying and evaluating the criminal charges levied against the defendant in a gun shooting case.
Building a Forensic Practice with Pat Iyer
How do you add forensic cases to a legal nurse consulting practice? Who are the players, who has the money, and what are the nuances of working within this world? What are the most effective marketing methods for reaching the attorneys who need your services?
Meet the Speaker
Pat Iyer MSN RN LNCC applied what she learned in internet marketing and being a member of the National Speakers Association to developing and running a highly successful LNC business. Her use of various methods of marketing resulted in building a multimillion-dollar independent LNC business, and creating a successful coaching business to help LNCs grow their businesses.
Pat Iyer
MSN RN LNCC
Winning Clients with Darin Adams
You know your LNC business like no one else. The problem is that it’s not enough to just be good at what you do. When a business fails, it’s often because it wasn’t organized to run or grow efficiently. Thanks to new technology, you can concentrate on your strengths and let new tools help you get organized and take care of the steps that will make you successful.
- How can you do better at “speed to lead”? Getting the new contact in your business system in record time allows you to follow up with them better.
- Make it easy for your customer to contact you and schedule time with you. If it’s as easy as clicking on a button, it will happen more often.
- Stay in touch and you’ll be “top of mind”. If you are providing a real solution, your audience wants to hear from you more often.
The best part is that, while marketing and sales can be overwhelming, tools are available that make it easier than ever before. It now can happen in seconds, not days. Darin shares tips to accomplish these goals in this fast-paced session.
Meet the Speaker
Darin Adams is an award-winning marketing expert who has coached thousands of businesses how to build connections with their audiences. All success starts with relationships; he has taught people all around the world how to build those relationships through automation. Now he’s here to show you how you can get organized, get customers, and get paid.
Darin Adams
The Attorney’s Take on LNCs
In this fast-moving discussion, our attorneys discuss the murder of Selena Perez, which happened at the hands of a registered nurse. Former District Attorney Mark Skurka handled the case.
Meet the Speaker
Joe Flores MSN RN NP, ESQ is both a nurse practitioner and an attorney in Texas. He has practiced in several areas of the law, including criminal, personal injury, traumatic brain injury cases, whistleblower law, and the defense in cases where nursing and the law overlap.
While Joe earned his BSN, he started reviewing medical records for attorneys. His expert witness work helped fund his nurse practitioner program and law school.
Joe serves in a dual role now: trial attorney and nurse practitioner.
Joe Flores
MSN RN NP, ESQ
Mark Skurka
Mark Skurka is a criminal justice professor and recently retired from Texas A &M. He served as the District Attorney for Nueces County in Texas for 30 years. The last 6 years of his career he was the District Attorney with 44 attorneys under his supervision. He prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases including rape, child abuse, murder and more. He achieved fame in 1995 when he prosecuted the murder of Selena Quintanilla Perez, an American singer who was murdered by an embezzling employee. It was called the Trial of the Century.
For 13 years, Mark taught a course on forensic science and criminal law at Texas A & M in Corpus Christi.
Basics of Criminal Case Consulting Part II with Teresa Devitt-Lynch
Legal Nurse Consultants can contribute significantly to the prosecution or defense of persons indicted for causing death or bodily injury via gunshot wounds.
You will be able to evaluate the criminal charges associated with gunshot wounds, discuss the process of forensically analyzing the medical evidence and look for a connection between the medical evidence and the indicated charges.
Meet the Speaker
Teresa Devitt-Lynch MSN RN AFN-BC, SANE-A is a certified adult Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and board certified Advanced Forensic Nurse. The proprietor of the INTREPID Forensic Healthcare Consulting firm, she provides criminal case consultation and expert witness services for military and civilian courts. Recently relocated to North Dakota, Teresa provides services to victims of sexual assault and battering.
Teresa Devitt-Lynch
MSN RN AFN-BC, SANE-A
Panel Discussion: The View from the Forensic Field
Listen to a panel of experienced forensic nurses as they discuss the field and how nurses help attorneys.
Meet the Speaker
Wendy Votroubek MPH BSN RN founded Integrity Legal Nurse Consulting PDX over 10 years ago and works with both civil and criminal defense attorneys. She uses subcontractors to ensure the consistent high quality of work that her clients rely on. Wendy also teaches part time at University of Portland.
Wendy Votroubek
MPH BSN RN
Tristan Ashly Wristen
MSN BSN RN FN-CSA, SANE-A
Tristan Ashly Wristen MSN BSN RN FN-CSA, SANE-A spent ten years as an Emergency Department RN. She is board-certified as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and has qualified as an expert in sexual assault, strangulation, and injury causation. Tristan is a professor and teaches undergraduate nursing students at Ocean County College and precepts graduate students in forensic nursing at Monmouth University in New Jersey.
Victoria Morton MS, BSN, RN SANE-A, CP-SANE holds her SANE-A Certification through the IAFN and CP-SANE through the Texas Office of Attorney General. She received her master’s degree from The University of Florida with a Forensic Science focus, has received additional training in Forensic and Clinical Evaluation of Gunshot Wounds and Death Investigation, and has served as a Legal Consultant since 2013. She currently works at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas on the Forensic Nurse, Sexual Assault and Violence Response Team.
Victoria Morton
MS, BSN, RN SANE-A, CP-SANE
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