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Simplifying complex clinical scenarios to educate, advocate, and highlight the role of a legal nurse consultant.

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With over eight years of experience as a Legal Nurse Consultant, I’ve witnessed firsthand how powerful collaboration between medicine and law can be—and where it sometimes fails patients. Through these blogs, I share real insights, clinical-to-legal connections, and advocacy lessons to help nurses and attorneys strengthen their approach. I’m ready to share my expertise and contribute to transforming patient care and patient outcomes through education and collaboration. 

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Advocacy That Matters in Medicine

The New Dietary Guidelines, RFK Jr., and Why This Feels Like a South Park Episode

If you’ve been on social media lately, you may have seen posts mocking a so-called “RFK food pyramid.” Memes fly fast, certainty flies faster, and nuance is usually the first casualty. Here’s the problem: there is no such thing as a “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. food pyramid.”And that misunderstanding itself feels like something straight out of South Park. Let’s […]

Rolling Back Vaccines Isn’t Neutral Policy—It’s a Predictable Public Health Failure

By Jessica Tonia, MSN, APRN, FNP-BCFamily Nurse Practitioner | Legal Nurse Consultant In public health, few things are as well-studied—or as unforgiving—as vaccination policy. When immunization rates fall, disease follows. Not hypothetically. Not eventually. Predictably. Recent federal actions associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influence on vaccine policy are not simply political shifts. They represent […]

Jonas Salk, the Polio Vaccine, and Why Polio Nearly Disappeared — But Could Return

For much of the early 20th century, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the United States. Each summer, outbreaks swept through communities, paralyzing or killing thousands of children. Then, in 1955, physician-scientist Dr. Jonas Salk changed history with the first widely used polio vaccine (Oshinsky, 2005). Polio is a highly contagious viral infection that […]

From Rescue to Prevention: The Story of the 1925 Great Race of Mercy — and Why Diphtheria Is Preventable Today

In the winter of 1925, the remote town of Nome faced a medical emergency that threatened the lives of its children. An outbreak of diphtheria—a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease—was spreading rapidly. Nome’s supply of lifesaving antitoxin was nearly depleted, and the town was cut off from traditional transportation by frozen seas and brutal Arctic conditions. […]

How Grief Inspired The BFG: Roald Dahl, Measles, and the Lifesaving Power of Vaccines

By FAQ BY Nurse Jessi Consulting, LLC. Roald Dahl is remembered for creating some of the most imaginative children’s stories of all time—Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and of course, The BFG. What many people don’t know is that The BFG was born out of profound personal loss—and that Roald Dahl later became a passionate […]

Why MAKE Wellness? The Science, the Simplicity, and the Results

By FAQ By Nurse Jessi Consulting, LLC.  If you’ve been watching the rapid rise of wellness peptides and wondering whether they truly live up to the hype, you’re not alone. Today’s consumers want more than trendy supplements—they want products that are clinically inspired, easy to use, and designed for real results. That’s exactly why I partnered with MAKE Wellness. As […]