About: Irnise is a healthcare and regulatory compliance lawyer with a nursing background which gives her a deeper understanding of healthcare practices and patient care. This unique legal and nursing knowledge combination allows her to provide comprehensive legal services to healthcare providers,
facilities, and organizations.
She is highly skilled in research and analysis. She can quickly and efficiently research complex healthcare issues and regulations and stay up-to-date with the latest developments and changes in healthcare law and policy.
She helps healthcare providers and organizations navigate the complex web of federal and state regulations and ensures that they are in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. This may involve conducting internal audits to identify potential non-compliance, developing and implementing compliance programs and policies, and providing legal counsel on patient care, privacy, and data security issues. As a graduate of Howard University and the Howard University School of Law, Irnise is an architect of social change for her clients and her community.
Learn more about Irnise:
IRNISE FENNELL WILLIAMS, ESQ. Attorney & Registered Nurse
Email: hello@iwilliamslaw.com
Tel: 240.389.2069
In the News
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Why National Nurses Week matters: Two nurses weigh in
After two-plus years of pandemic life, nurse leaders underscore the importance of the profession.
As a profession, nurses have endured seismic challenges over the past few years. The COVID-19 pandemic was as deadly as advertised, claiming the lives of approximately 115,000 healthcare workers between January 2020 and May 2021, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Read More
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This nurse treated patients in COVID-19 units before leaving the industry after 13 years. Now, she runs a law firm helping nurses start their own companies.
Irnise Williams is an attorney with her own law firm. She’s also a registered nurse who was on the frontlines in New York City in March 2020, treating some of the country’s first COVID-19 patients.
Williams said working in chaos for more than a year in the pandemic made her to decide to quit after 13 years of nursing. She said, like many of her nurse peers in the US, she received minimal mental health, burnout, or staffing support while treating the country’s sickest patients amid an unprecedented global pandemic. Read More
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What are travelers afraid of in 2021? And what should they actually be worried about?
Just because you look healthy and are asymptomatic doesn’t mean you won’t spread COVID-19 to your friends and family when you’re traveling. But you can be sure – or more sure – that you won’t, says Irnise Williams, a travel nurse and health law attorney.
“Get two COVID-19 tests with negative results to ensure you do not get a false negative,” she advises. “Wear a mask, wash your hands and keep your gatherings small to ensure you can contact trace just in case you are exposed or if you expose someone.” Read More
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They’re Taking a Shot at Innovation
Meet two healthcare workers who have found power in partnership, galvanizing each other—and their thousands of Instagram followers—to take nursing in a new direction.
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Nurse Becoming Podcast with Amanda of ResumeRx
Medicine or military? This was the question that Irnise Williams asked herself before getting accepted to Howard University College of Medicine at 17. Read More
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Nurses on Fire Podcast with Naseema of Financially Intentional
Irnise is an experienced nurse and health law attorney that works with healthcare providers who want to protect their license, decrease liability and mitigate risks. After working in the operating room and the pre-op/PACU years ago, Irnise decided that she could do more for nurses, patients, and the healthcare system by working to change healthcare as a legal advocate and social justice change agent. Read More
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Luminary Member Spotlight
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Nursing Spotlight
Our Spotlight series highlights a new nurse from the SHIFT audience each month. We ask the same set of questions each time, but, of course, we get all kinds of answers. The individual stories and surprise twists in these conversations make us laugh, cry and feel proud. Read More
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Birth Professionals and Liability Article and Podcasts
The landscape of obstetric care has changed over the years due to the increase in litigation and medical malpractice outcomes that have cost providers and healthcare systems millions of dollars. Read More
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Go Solo – Healthcare Law – The Law Office of Irnise F. Williams