Our Team

Legal Nurse Consultant / Nurse Paralegal

Dr. Patricia Brock, PhD, MSN, LNCC, CLCP, CNLCP

Dr. Brock brings a wealth of clinical medical experience spanning over 40 years to assist the clients of Czelusta Law in medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, and personal injury cases. Dr Brock started her career in 1981 as a staff nurse on a medical surgical unit and she was quickly promoted to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, and in the Open -Heart Recovery Unit. Dr. Brock later became a Nurse Manager in an Intensive and progressive care unit at a large Florida acute care hospital.  While working a nurse, Dr. Brock advanced her medical training by obtaining Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Indiana Wesleyan University in nursing and nursing education.  She continued her nursing education further by earning her PhD in nursing with her dissertation titled “Nurse Perceptions of Facility Influences on Older Adult Acute Care Falls©” being published online.   Dr. Brock has also taught future nurses at Daytona State College, where she instructed final semester nursing students in clinical rotations in the hospital as well as in the classroom setting. She remains academically active in teaching at Daytona State College in the training of final semester nursing students as needed.

Dr. Brock also brings to Czelusta Law significant knowledge and experience in medical malpractice and injury litigation.  She earned her certification as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant in 2012 and a Certified Nurse Life Care Planner in 2013. She has also taught legal nurse consulting classes for Duke University for 12 years covering all areas related to teaching nurses how to best assist lawyers in litigation surrounding medical malpractice cases.  Since then, Dr. Brock has been sought out by lawyers in injury litigation to testify as an expert witness in the field of nursing and life care planning. 

Through this training and experience, Dr. Brock has amassed extensive medical legal experience in reviewing and analyzing medical records, planning technical / medical strategy in preparing for depositions and trial testimony, and assisting our firm in identifying medical issues for our clients. Her medical knowledge and experience provides Czelusta Law with an edge in case analysis and strategy that many other law firms lack, and she is ready to help you in your time of need.

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