Business Management
What should you know if you decide to start a business?
Get some basic information first. For example, if you’re thinking about becoming self-employed versus being employed, speak to some other self-employed legal nurse consultants first. Ask them about the upside and the downside of being self-employed. Ask them about things they wish they had known beforehand or perhaps lessons that they have learned because then…
Read MoreDealing with Fear: Tackling LNC Fears
You might think that fear is the legal nurse consultant’s enemy. Fear demoralizes us, right? It stops us in our tracks. Not so. How should you be dealing with fear? Understand that even if we’re in situations that lack fulfillment or the flexible lifestyle we think we want, it is human nature to want to…
Read MoreDo you have the right LNC business processes in place?
In a Legal Nurse Podcast, Regina Clarke shared her thoughts about the right business processes that healthcare organizations need to have in place. She said, “These four fundamentals hold true for every organization that wants to improve the experience for the customer. In health care clearly the customer is the patient.” She got me thinking…
Read MorePrevent Website Hacking
How do you prevent website hacking? You’ve got a lovely legal nurse consulting website. You’re proud of it. One day you discover that cybercriminals have gotten to it and inserted nasty code that infects everyone who views it. Prevent website hacking with strong user names and passwords What are the two worst passwords? Never use…
Read MoreCould You Have a Hacked Website?
You’ve heard about cybersecurity and people who are able to break into a website. A hacked website results in loss of data, reputation and business. Could it happen to you? A Hacked Website is a Real Risk Google says every day thousands of websites are hacked by cybercriminals. You may not realize for days or…
Read MoreSelf Esteem and Age Esteem – Vital for Effective Functioning
How does self-esteem esteem affect our role as legal nurse consultants? How does age esteem play into this? First, what does age esteem mean? I interviewed Bonnie Fatio about this topic for a Legal Nurse Business Podcast. Bonnie is a vibrant woman in her 70s who exhorts us to embrace your age, realize your worth,…
Read More5 Success Tips for Your LNC Business
Need some success tips for your LNC Business? Subcontracting 1. Do subcontracting work for other LNCs if it makes sense for you in your phase of business development. It will make sense for you if you can afford to work at a rate that will be considerably lower than the rate you would charge the…
Read More3 Tips for Tackling Procrastination
Do you need help tackling procrastination? Procrastination is an umbrella term that really doesn’t tell you anything except what your behavior is. It does not tell you the cause of why you’re procrastinating. The most important thing you can do at the moment that you notice that you’re not doing what you should to be…
Read More4 Stages of Team Development
Ever think about the reason for medical errors as related to team development? Anyone who reads depositions of nurses and doctors understands the way that team dynamics can affect patient safety. There are four stages of team dynamics or team development. A dysfunctional team can directly affect communication and lead to patient injury. Forming The…
Read MoreIntroverts and Their Quiet Nature in the Business World
My boss was the Vice President of Nursing who hired me in the last job that I had as an employee in 1986. Not knowing I was one of the introverts, she would observe me sitting in staff meetings with the upper management of the nursing department. After a while she said, “You know Pat,…
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