Legal & regulatory issues

Lynn S Muller¹, Audrey Graham-O'Ggilvie

• ¹Lynn S. Muller, RN, BA-HCM, CCM, JD, is a Nurse Attorney and managing partner of Muller & Muller. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Saint Peter's University of New Jersey. Lynn is a certified case manager with extensive nursing and case management experience. Her practice includes defense of health care professionals before the state licensing boards, consultant on such issues as regulatory compliance and accreditation, civil litigation, Wills, Trusts and Estates, and Family law. Lynn is the author of numerous articles and the legal chapters of the 3rd edition of Case Management: A Practical Guide for Education and Practice and the 2nd edition of the Case Management Society of America Core Curriculum for Case Management. She is a former Commissioner for CCMC and a past president of the NJ Chapter of Case Management Society of America. Audrey Graham-O'Gilvie, BSN, MSN, CCRN, CNS-BC, graduated from Dawson College (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) with an AAS degree in nursing. She continued her education at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), where she received BSN and her MSN at Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, New York) in the Family Clinical Nurse Specialist Track. Audrey is currently a doctoral candidate in the DNP Executive Track at Saint Peter's University in New Jersey.