Kathy
Ferrell, RN is an independent legal nurse consultant from Thompson’s Station,
TN.She graduated from Georgia Baptist
Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta, Ga. where she obtained a nursing
diploma.She also obtained a Bachelor of
Science in Health Arts from the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois. She
has been a legal nurse consultant for seven years and is certified by the
American Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Board.
Kathy
has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and worked in private physician offices,
hospitals, insurance companies and presently serves as a parish nurse for
Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville.Her experiences gained her first hand knowledge of physician and nursing
standards of care and hospital
practices and procedures.She has used this
knowledge in assisting plaintiff and defense attorneys in medical malpractice, personal injury, nursing home, product
liability, and bad faith insurance cases. She also serves as testifying expert
in insurance matters and locates clinically active physician and nurse experts when
appropriate for attorney clients.
She
enjoys public speaking on nursing and legal nurse consulting.