Career options: the increasing demand for courtroom nurses

Gail Hoffman and Lisa Michaels first met at the University of Miami School of Nursing in the early seventies. Because of their mutual interest in pediatrics and their desire to stay in South Florida, both expected that their paths would cross again at some time during their nursing careers. But neither of them expected that 20 years later the crossroads would be in a courtroom, both working for a defense attorney on a medical malpractice case. Now, in Smith v Mizrahi, Gail is a nurse paralegal assigned to the case through her employment at Green, Williams, & Conrad, P.A., and Lisa was called to serve as an expert witness. Although the coincidence of Gail and Lisa's reacquaintance is unique, their career change stories are not.