Clinical insight for pediatric and complex-medical care cases.
Northstar Legal Nurse Consulting helps attorneys understand the medicine behind the record — what happened, what the standard of care required, and where the chart tells a different story. Led by a practicing pediatric intensive care nurse with a decade of clinical research and data experience behind her.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Pediatric intensive care
Complex chronic trach/vent patients
COLUMBUS, OH
Based in Columbus, Ohio
Consulting nationwide
EXPERIENCE
16 years critical care nursing, still in active practice
10 years clinical research
ABOUT
A practicing ICU nurse, not a retired one.
Josey Hensley, RN, BSN, CCRN is a PICU nurse in Columbus, Ohio, with 16 years of bedside experience in PICU, including extensive work with chronic trach/vent patients. Earlier in her career she spent two years in pediatric cardiac ICU and an additional two years in the critical care float pool. Alongside bedside nursing, she spent 10 years in critical care research as a research coordinator and project manager. That background shapes how she works: her record reviews and chronologies are detail-level, organized, and complete.
Northstar was founded on a simple standard: scope a case honestly. If the records support an opinion, you’ll hear it plainly. If they don’t — or if the case needs a different specialty — you’ll hear that too, early, before you’ve spent money finding out.
Josey Hensley
RN, BSN, CCRN
Founder and consulting nurse, Northstar Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC. Currently practicing in pediatric intensive care.
Clinical: pediatric critical care; chronic trach/vent populations
Research: 10 years — coordinator, data manager, project manager; REDCap database design
Professional: Member, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC)
Based in: Columbus, Ohio — available for remote engagements
SERVICES
What Northstar does for your case.
01
Medical Record Review
Full review of the chart with a clinician’s eye: identifying the key events, the gaps, and the documentation that helps or hurts — organized so you can act on it.
02
Chronologies & Timelines
Detailed, source-cited medical chronologies built from the complete record.
03
Merit & Screening Review
An early, honest read on whether the nursing care met the standard, before you commit to the cost of litigation.
04
Standard of Care Analysis
Assessment of nursing care against the applicable standard, grounded in current practice, policy, and the clinical literature.
05
Expert Witness Services
Reviewing and testifying expert work in the practice areas above, with opinions formed only after review of the records — and held to honestly.
06
Literature & Research Support
Targeted research into the clinical evidence behind a claim or defense, summarized in plain language your team can use.
WORKING TOGETHER
A clear path from first call to opinion.
1
Introductory call
A short conversation about the case in general terms — the allegations, the setting of care, and your timeline.
2
Conflict & fit check
Confirmation that there’s no conflict, and that the case sits inside Northstar’s clinical scope. If it doesn’t fit, that’s said up front.
3
Engagement
Work begins under a written engagement with a clear fee schedule — provided on request — and an agreed scope and deadline.
4
Review & reporting
Records, chronologies, summaries, and opinions delivered in writing, on the schedule agreed — with a call to walk through the findings.
Request a consultation
Tell me a little about the case — in general terms only, please. No records or protected health information by email until an engagement is in place.
joseyhensley@northstarlegalnursing.com
Columbus, Ohio
Consulting remotely with firms nationwide