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Marketing Letters: Are You Focusing on Your Prospect?
Many legal nurse consultants send marketing letters to attorneys. Here is a typical letter: Dear ________, We would like to thank you for your ongoing confidence in our services. We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing our relationship with you. How can we help you now? Do you have cases that you would…
Read MoreLong Term Care Primer – Specialty Documents
Long term care is a highly litigated area of health care. As a legal nurse consultant (LNC) without a clinical background in long term care, I had to educate myself on this specialty. The nursing tasks were familiar but the chart was not. As I worked on more of these cases, I came to rely…
Read MorePatient falls: what went wrong?
Legal nurse consultants who handled medical malpractice cases often make decisions about liability for patient falls. A review of nursing malpractice claims dealing with many different types of claims revealed that the allegations fit into one of these six categories: failure to follow standards of care; failure to use equipment in a responsible manner; failure…
Read MoreKeyword Research and Your Legal Nurse Consulting Website
Can attorneys find your legal nurse consulting business? do you have a website that includes the results of keyword research? If you do not have a website, you will remain invisible to the vast majority of attorneys who might have otherwise hired you. See Why LNCs need a Website. When you do not control your…
Read MoreAvoid guff in your marketing materials
Guff is the language of the bureaucrat. It is pompous, needlessly complex, and obscures understanding. The person who writes in guff uses long sentences, filled with stiff language, and technical terms. Here is an example of guff from a legal nurse consultant’s website: “Screening Medical Cases For Merit – I will document the departure from…
Read MoreHow to Use Multiple Monitors
One of the joys of having more than one monitor is to be able to have two documents, two programs or the internet and a program open simultaneously. I now use 3 monitors – two freestanding ones and one on my laptop computer. Benefits of Multiple Monitors One of the benefits of having a multiple…
Read MoreProfile of an Attorney Client You Do Not Want
Are you so hungry for work as a legal nurse consultant that you would say yes to any attorney client who asked you to provide services? Mr. Senior Partner slouched in his chair and glared at me. He was a prominent plaintiff attorney who had invited me to come to his office and to bring…
Read MoreSurprising Verdict: Fractured Wrist
Right now I have been reading recent medical malpractice verdicts to find great examples to include in a new book. The one below got my attention. It was a surprising verdict. Surprising verdict in a fractured wrist case The fifty-three year old plaintiff went through cervical surgery. When she awoke, her left wrist was swollen…
Read MoreThe Patient Removed His Own Staples
Would you believe a patient who said a nurse or physicians assistant told him to remove his own staples after he lacerated his leg? The patient removed his own staples. In this interesting case, a 68-year-old man went to the ED with a chainsaw laceration of his left knee. He developed a severe infection in…
Read MoreNursing Liability for Spinal Cord Injury
A patient arrives in the emergency department with a possible spinal cord injury. Or a patient falls in the hospital. One of the first things, which nurses must do, is to assess the patient and determine if there are any changes from the baseline assessment. Recognition of changes in assessment and changes from the baseline…
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