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Executive Summary

Health system and delivery problems require creative solutions. Dedicated to the improvement of health care in the United States, Carson Company, LLC, a minority, female-owned company, uses its expansive institutional memory of health systems, law, and regulatory processes to develop policy and advocacy strategies. Committed to the improvement of existing systems, Carson Company, LLC also utilizes knowledge of state, federal and international licensure systems, culture, and epidemiology to offer unique options for improving the overall health status of United States citizens.


Using our unique knowledge of medical and nursing practice, health law, regulation and policy and our ability to identify issues and matters of interest, we specialize in using policy, legislation and/or litigation to address emerging health issues as they relate to nursing practice. With a team approach, Carson Company, LLC utilizes experts in medicine, nursing, law, and other clinical practice specialty areas to provide a comprehensive range of services supporting nursing practice. Experts in health regulation, nursing practice, insurance, health privacy, informatics policy and practices, epidemiology, AIDS policy and health disparities, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide data, analysis and policy on distinctions in state and federal regulatory responsibilities and practices; and our ability to forecast and identify trends and paradigm shifts in the regulation of health.

Our Capacity and Experience

Carson Company’s capacity to address health matters includes:

  • Expertise to manage and conduct statistical, medical, epidemiological and nursing research on clinical and health policy matters;
  • Expertise to conduct policy research, develop policy papers, treatises and analyses of health issues;
  • Expertise to analyze legal, regulatory and legislative issues related to health;
  • Expertise to draft state and federal legislation, regulation, comments and government legislative, regulatory and policy reports and reports;
  • Expertise to develop, implement strategic and grassroots programs for the inclusion of policies into state or federal legislation/regulation;
  • Expertise to direct and assist health associations in the development and implementation of policy;
  • Expertise to conduct workshops, lectures, webinars on health issues from the legal, medical and/or nursing perspectives;
  • Expertise to develop corporate wellness and fitness programs;
  • Expertise to provide technical assistance on advanced practice and nurse prescribing policies and clinical practices;
  • Expertise in management and technical assistance in health specialty areas, and
  • Expertise to develop and/or use proprietary databases to team content specific experts with businesses on health issues.

NAIS Codes

541110 541618 541620 541690 541990 623110 621399 813212 813920 813910 926150 922190 541820

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Presentations

  • National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Speaker, 12th Annual World Congress on Public Health, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2009 National Bar Association Healthcare Law Summit, Washington, DC
  • Illinois Nurses Association, Staff Training on Acuity, Staffing Legislation and Revisions to the Nurse Practice Act. Chicago, Illinois
  • Speaker, American Bar Association, AIDS Coordinating Committee Conference, Dallas, Texas
  • Center for American Nurses, LEAD Summit, Washington, DC
  • International Nurse Practitioners/Advanced Practice Nursing Network, Toronto, Canada
  • Minnesota Nurses Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN
  • Keynote Speaker, NPACE Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Speaker, Zeta Phi Beta, Human Genome Project Workshop, Los Angeles, California
  • National Association of Reproductive Health Educators, Washington, D.C.

Publications

  • The Official Guide for Foreign-Educated Nurses: What You Need to Know about Nursing and Health Care in the United States (Council on Graduates of Foreign Nurse Schools: 2009)
  • NursingLaw Report, Editor and Publisher
  • Medscape, Nurses Expert Panel, Ask the Experts
  • Advanced practice nurses: a new skirmish in the continuing battle over scope of practice. Minarek (co-author) CNS: The Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice, 2007 Jan-Feb; vol 21 (issue 1): pp 52-4.
  • Retail Clinics and Advance Nursing Practice: An Update, NP World News
  • Legal Aspects of Standards and Guidelines for Clinical Nursing Practice, ANA June 1998.
  • Chapters on Legal Issues and Advanced Nursing Practice in Nurses, Nurse Practitioners: Evolution to Advanced Practice, M.Mezey, D. McGovern, editors, Springer Publishing Company March 1998.
  • Chapter on Legal Issues Related to Genetics, Nursing Clinics of America: Genetics, S. Olsen, editor, W.B. Saunders, September 2000.