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The nurse consultant’s role in the courtroom

“I started a long time ago. In high school I actually took an LPN course. I started at 17, turned 18 and finished right out the gate. I really love helping people and being able to give back to the community. That's how I started my nursing career. I was in a sub-acute rehab and nursing home pursuing my RN and went into acute care. As I was looking around in acute care and ending up managing a telemetry unit, I started learning that some people need more help than the patient's nurses and the doctors. I asked a question that I'll hear echoing for the rest of my life: how come every time my patient posts, there's never a bed available? Being inquisitive landed me in that logistical role, patient throughput and capacity management and helping all milestones throughout a patient's journey in an acute care system.”

Jacqueline Clancy is a certified legal nurse consultant who has had her own consulting practice for over a year. She received her master’s degree from Regis university in Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Systems Organizations. As a nurse, she has experience in telemetry and patient logistics. From 2019 to 2021, she served as the director of the Centralized Transfer Center with Northwell Health. In 2021, she opened her legal consulting practice, Jacqueline N. Clancy Consulting.

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