About me
Stacy Martinelli RN, BSN, LNC
I moved away from my childhood home and started college when I was 17, working 3 jobs to cover all expenses. Before I turned 21, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. From there, I developed skills in mental health treatment while working as a counselor for youth in the foster care system who struggled with behavioral challenges. My interest in nursing arose from my experience as a counselor. I often wondered about the physiological underpinnings of behavior: how a mother’s drug use while pregnant might influence temperament and personality of her child years later, or how childhood trauma impacts brain structure and contributes to depression or anxiety.
Nursing seemed like a good way to answer those questions. After finishing my Associates degree in Nursing, I worked as a full time Registered Nurse (RN) while I completed my Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I worked for several years before COVID hit. Then, I started travel nursing. I’ve been all over the United States gaining an appreciation for varied medical practices and processes, while simultaneously recognizing consistencies.
I’ve always said, “Nursing isn’t my first career and it won’t be my last.”
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“These [reports] look great so far! I think he will really enjoy the standard review and educational material you provided. It looks helpful for his case, thank you!”
M. Duquette
Legal Nurse Consultant Independent Contractor
“She is extremely intelligent, always helpful, and has a great vision. I highly recommend her to everyone!”
A. Gabriel
“I was not familiar with nurse consultants or their potential. Let me just say, if you’ve never used a nurse to help with your medical cases, you don’t know what you’re missing.
W. Rhodes
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What Can I Do for You?
Legal Nurse Consultant
Much like “Legalese”, medical records are a different language. Take this classic meme, for example:
The value of a nurse brain lies in the vast network of neural connections that form over years of working at the bedside. Year after year, every single one of those medical abbreviations grows dozens of tentacles until it lies at the center of a massive web of knowledge and automatic connections that includes typical treatments, concerns, reactions, and expectations, as well as contraindications in relation to other diagnoses, medications, and therapies. We know what tests and images were likely ordered, and what you’d expect them to look like. And when any of these components did not present as expected, we know what should’ve happened next. If anything is missing, I’ll notice. This is what I am great at. This is the value of a legal nurse consultant.
It’s a skillset and mindset that take years to cultivate in the right environment. That’s what I have to offer.
This might seem like a joke. But a nurse will read that and translate it subconsciously in real time. It says “84 year old female from the emergency department. Past medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, and past surgical history of coronary artery bypass graft (4 vessels), right total knee replacement, left total hip replacement, history of vancomycin resistant enterococcus, methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. Will need peripherally inserted central catheter, chest x-ray, and blood type and cross for 2 units packed red blood cells right away (stat)”
But anyone can Google medical abbreviations, where’s the value in that?