Managing Credibility Professional Testimony The Senior Care Industry

The senior care industry is the provision of services to meet the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens.  Professional testimony is the presentation of pertinent information secondary to knowledge, skill and experience regarding the seniors situation being examined by the court.  The focus of all professional testimony should be the safety of the senior.

The primary responsibility of the senior care provider delivering professional testimony is to manage credibility.  Credibility flows directly from the accumilated knowledge, skill and experience related to keeping seniors safe.  Credibility is what gives the information being exchanged a value for a client, court participants, and the greater community. 

The goal of this research device is to help you recognize the ongoing aspect of process with regard to managing credibility.  The individual providing professional testimony is performing tasks that assess risk to credibility with hearing design.  Using newly forming data to assess presence in future information exchanges that translate to a communicated perception.

The expert witness reviews notes taken with preparation time and pre-trial line of questioning.  The potential questions are listed and numbered.  The expert witness now studies the questions in relation to their field of expertise which is senior safety.  Identify and total all phrase constructs that string directly to the concept of senior safety.  Calculate the number of questions that will require a response verbalizing your field of expertise which is senior safety. 

Now calculate the number of questions that will require a verbal response that falls outside of your field of expertise which is senior safety.  As a person who provides professional testimony you are managing variation as relates to your field of expertise which is senior safety. 

Questions that could be posed not relating to senior safety are recorded as a variation.  Legal teams will use questions unrelated to an expert witnesses field of expertise to create a descrepancy, widening disagreement through identified variance.  The more questions asked outside the realm of senior safety, the greater the variation, and the lower the expert witnesses credibility. 

Let us suppose your calculation of potential questions is 3 regarding senior safety and 14 outside the realm of senior safety.  This is a lead indication you are being utilized for something other than your field of expertise.  You now have an ethical dilemma in that current hearing design calls for questions unrelated to your field of expertise.  You are an expert witness being asked to give testimony on a line of questions you are not experienced to address.  This is the underlying foundation for a loss of credibility.

In this situation professional testimony provided along the current skewed line of questioning would be a dis-service to the client, the court participants, and the greater community. 

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