Registered Nurse (R.N.) is a national certification, not a New Jersey license. How a New Jersey court weighs it is decided case by case under the forum's expert rules; this page covers the credential's scope, the New Jersey venues where a plan is examined, and our planners who hold it and serve New Jersey.
Registered nurse licensure authorizes the practice of professional nursing. In life care planning, the RN is a qualifying clinical credential for both CLCP and CNLCP certification and grounds the plan in direct knowledge of skilled nursing care, medication administration, wound and skin care, supplies, and the daily routines that determine attendant care hours.
New Jersey personal injury and medical malpractice claims are tried in the Superior Court, Law Division, with malpractice claims requiring an affidavit of merit. Workers' compensation claims are decided by judges of compensation in the Division of Workers' Compensation, where a plan's future medical component is regularly contested.
Outside the civil courts, the New Jersey Division of Workers' Compensation is the forum where a plan is most often examined in New Jersey. KW Life Care Planning R.N.-credentialed experts apply nationally recognized standards while accounting for New Jersey's practice environment.
R.N.-credentialed experts provide testimony in New Jersey's courts, where expert qualification is determined case by case.
Highest court: Supreme Court of New Jersey. Federal venues: D.N.J..
Source: New Jersey Courts, Special Civil Part limits (njcourts.gov)
Clinical familiarity with the hands-on care a condition requires: skilled nursing tasks, medication and supply quantities, equipment use, and the practical hours of attendant care a person needs at each level of function.
Certification is not legally required, but the CLCP or CNLCP documents specific training and examination in life care planning methodology and is widely expected in litigation.
The nurse planner testifies to the needs documented in the plan and their cost. Opinions that a specific treatment is medically necessary or causally related come from the treating or examining physician.
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