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Are You Paying Attention to Your Business Intuition?
Business intuition is a lot like clinical intuition. You learned as a clinical nurse that some nurses have intuition about a patient. They might say, “Something is not right with this person. I need to get help.” There may be subtle signs of a change. Something is off. The concerned nurse mobilizes the healthcare team…
Read More“I can save you money” is meaningless
Saying “I can save you money” is a phrase that has become white noise to many attorneys. Most LNCs say, “I can save you time and money.” That’s boring and so overused. It is a phrase used so often in ads and by salespeople that when we hear it, it’s like hearing “Blah, blah, blah.”…
Read More7 Tips for A Work At Home Legal Nurse Consultant
Being a work at home legal nurse consultant may sound like an ideal arrangement. You don’t have the expense of maintaining an office, and you can produce income while still being a work at home parent. It is often the only way legal nurse consultants can start a business. My first desk was a board…
Read More3 Ways to Avoid Common Writing Traps for LNCs
I often get asked to help legal nurse consultants and nurse writers with reports, journal submissions, theses, dissertations, or book chapters. These are some of my favorite hints to help them engage their readers with clarity and precision and avoid common writing traps for LNCs. Legal nurse consultants: take note. These tips will help you…
Read MoreCritical Care Nursing – “If you are not on top of your game patients die”
The critical care nurse in this video describes the high risk aspect of caring for patients.
Read MoreCritical Care Nursing and Team Communication
Collaboration and communication form the cornerstone of effective care. Critical care nursing exemplifies this principle. The involvement and interaction of critical care personnel have a critical impact on the outcome of critical illness. The outcome is influenced by the degree of interaction and communication between nurses and physicians. Critical care nursing and team communication are…
Read MoreCritical Care Nursing – High Risk Practice
Critical care nurses take care of some of our sickest patients. They practice in a high risk environment – both clinically and in terms of litigation. We take critical care nursing for granted, but they were not always among us. Critical care nursing in the United States began with the recognition that specialty nursing was…
Read MoreHow to respond to “I already have a legal nurse consultant I work with.”
You are marketing to an attorney you meet at a social event or while you are exhibiting at an attorney conference. When you identify yourself as a legal nurse consultant, he says, “”I already have a legal nurse consultant.” How do you respond to this resistance statement? I already have a legal nurse consultant If…
Read MoreNursing Standard of Care: Just following orders? Part 2
In part 1 of this blog, I shared facts to analyze the standard of care. I described a case of a man seen in the ER. The patient had a significant change in his condition on discharge, yet was sent home anyway and subsequently died. Did the ER nurse meet the nursing standard of care?…
Read MoreNursing Standard of Care: Just following orders? Part 1
I have had the questioned posed to me by an attorney in a deposition (on more than one occasion), “So you think you know more than the doctor”? The nurses’ responsibility does not end with blindly following a physician’s order. I have personally testified at 3 depositions and was asked this question at 2 of…
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