Dawn Cook’s professional Life Care Planning qualifications:

Dawn Cook has over 30 years of experience as a licensed Registered Nurse where she has worked with injured clients directly in clinical settings, provided home care nursing services and delivered Life Care Planning. As a professional Life care Planner, Dawn also has extensive experience delivering professional testimony at depositions and live trial cases.

Dawn is adept at researching and preparing detailed Life Care Plans, Future Medical Cost Projections and Medical Bill Reviews. Moreover Dawn also possesses the skill and training to professionally critique opposing counsel’s Life Care Plans and Medical Bill Reviews for accuracy and thoroughness.

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Letters of Recommendation

Professional Credentials

Professional Memberships

Professional Committees

Professional Subscriptions

American Nurse Today
Journal of Issues in Nursing
American Nursing Association Smart Brief
Journal of American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners
Journal of American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
Pain Management Nursing

Recent Conferences

September 2015: Biom Powered Ankle
September 2015: American Society of Pain Management Nursing
May 2015: Executive Forum of Lifetime Nurse Care Planners
April 2015: American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
September 2014: International Symposium of Life Care Planners
April 2014: Forensic Expert Witness Association Annual Convention
November 2013: AANLCP Education Conference
May 2013: Setting the Standards in Life Care Planning Conference
October2012: 2012 AANLCP Education Conference
May 2012: Setting the Standards in Life Care Planning Conference

Education

2013: Vickie Milazzo Institute Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Seminar
2011: Kelynco College, Life Care Planning Course, Draper UT
1988: Critical Care Nursing Course, 1988. Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
1979: Royal Jubilee School of Nursing, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Nursing Diploma graduated Valedictorian.

Publications

2015: “The Work of Business, Expert Witness Development and Training” in “Journal of Nurse Life Care Planners” vol. XV NO. 3, Fall 2015, page 884.“Is it time to use a Life Care Planner? How to evaluate if a plaintiff life care plan lacks merit” in “Common Defense, a Magazine for Arizona Defense Attorneys” Summer 2015, Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, 950 E. Baseline Rd. #104-1025, Tempe, AZ 85283“The Work of Business, Can You Hear Me Now?” in “Journal of Nurse Life Care Planners” vol. XV NO. 2, Summer 2015, page 812.2013: “Back and Neck Injuries”, “Hand and Wrist Injuries” and “Knee Injuries” in “Anatomy and Physiology 101 for Attorneys” pp. 33-63, 93-148. Publisher: National Business Institute PO Box 3067, Eau Claire, WI 54702

Presentation Experience

October 15, 2015: speaker at the Las Vegas Valley Paralegal Association, “How to Select a Life Care Planning Expert Witness.”
September 19, 2015: speaker at the American Society of Pain Management Nursing, “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Pain Management”
May 3, 2015: speaker at the Executive Forum of Lifetime Nurse Care Planners “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Life Care Planning.”
April 19, 2015: speaker at the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Legal Nurse Consulting.”
September 21, 2014: presenter at the International Symposium of Life Care Planners, “The Movable Office.”
July 27, 2014: invited speaker at the American Association of Justice Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD, “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, New and Emerging Treatments and Life Care Planning.”
January 31, 2013: presenter at National Business Institute’s seminar “Anatomy and Physiology 101 for Attorneys” in Fresno, California.