Lorie Brown is a registered nurse, nurse attorney and author of Law and Order for Nurses. She is the founder and CEO of Empowered Nurses, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating nurses on how to protect themselves from malpractice and license discipline. At Brown Law Office in Indianapolis, she assists healthcare providers in license matters and fellow attorneys with medical issues in their cases. Brown frequently participates in conferences and speaking engagements, where she shares her valuable advice with nurses around the nation.
Over the past 20 years, I’ve represented more than 300 healthcare providers before the various licensing boards. I’ve seen nurses accused of practicing medicine without a license for misunderstanding the dosage, nurses accused of neglect for failing to answer another nurse’s patient’s alarm like when the other nurse said she would answer it, and nurses […]