Zelda Rennick
Partner
Zelda worked as a nurse before law school. She leads the firm’s work for nurses and clinicians who have been reported by an employer.
Zelda spent several years on hospital floors before she went to law school, and she can say, without looking anything up, what a charting gap on a night shift usually means and what it does not. Boards’ nurse reviewers read charts for a living. She prepares files with that reader in mind.
She represents registered nurses, practical nurses and nurse practitioners, and she is the firm’s lawyer for monitoring and treatment-program agreements, which require the most careful reading of anything a nurse is asked to sign.
Focus
- Registered and practical nurses
- Nurse practitioners
- Medication-event reports
- Monitoring and treatment agreements
Where each lawyer is admitted and trained
Bar admissions
Virginia
2014
District of Columbia
2016
Courts
Circuit courts of Virginia
2014
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
2015
Education
J.D., American University Washington College of Law
2013
B.S.N., Virginia Commonwealth University
2008
Languages
English
Memberships
American Association of Nurse Attorneys
How Zelda works
Zelda starts by asking what happened that shift, in your words, before she opens a chart. Then she reads the chart and tells you where the two disagree and why it may not matter.
She explains each document you are asked to sign in plain words, line by line, including what it means for your employer and for your next job. People who call her after a bad week often say it was the first time anyone had explained the process from the beginning.
She is a long-distance runner and will never ask you to hurry.