The Legal Nurse Consultant is a licensed registered nurse who performs a critical analysis of health care facts and issues and their outcomes for the legal profession, health care professionals, and others, as appropriate. With a strong educational and experiential background, the legal nurse consultant is qualified to assess adherence to standards of health care practice as it applies to the nursing and health care professions.

-- from: Legal Nurse Consulting: Principals and Practice (1st ed.). (1998). Boca Raton: CRC Press.