Procrastination Can Destroy Your LNC Business

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  Do you procrastinate? Are you aware of how procrastination can destroy your LNC business? Are you a perfect procrastinator? This links the perfectionist and the procrastinator. The perfectionist has to do things over and over and over again. The end product is never good enough; therefore, it never sees the light of day. Or,…

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Your LNC Business: What Does it Take to Get Started?

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Your LNC Business: What Does it Take to Get Started? When starting your LNC business, the first and most essential step is to assess your value as a nurse and the skills that make you uniquely qualified for this path. Set aside doubts about not knowing legal terms or lacking a law background; those can…

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Identify the Physician Personality Type: The LNC Guide to Dealing with Them Part 1

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  The many facets of physician personalities are something that LNCs attending DME exams will experience.  Some physicians are easier to work with than others. This post will point out a variety of physician personalities and examples of dealing with them. Physician Personality: Compassionate Any LNC or patient will love having a compassionate physician. The…

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Forensic Legal Nurses Assisting Attorneys with Legal Cases

The intersection of healthcare and law results in a specialized field known as forensic legal nursing. Forensic legal nurses are registered nurses with training and expertise in both nursing and legal systems as related to crimes. Their unique skill set allows them to provide crucial support in legal cases. Forensic legal nurses assist attorneys with…

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Dehydration and Malnutrition in the Nursing Home

Sallie Brown was a frail, 79-year-old lady admitted to Healthy Place Nursing Home after her husband of 60 years suddenly died. She was at risk for dehydration and malnutrition. At the time of admission, Mrs. Brown weighed 120 pounds and was fifty-nine inches in height. The medical diagnoses included depression, congestive heart failure, and dysphagia…

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Healthcare-Acquired Infections

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An attorney may come to you as an LNC with a concern about a healthcare-acquired infection, which you can identify in the patient’s medical record. A legal nurse consultant should look in the medical record for the presence or absence of rapid diagnostic tests, potential therapeutic failure of antibiotics, or death due to failure to…

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The LNC’s Role in Analyzing Injury Diagnosis in Car Accidents

Injury Diagnosis in Car Accidents

The LNC’s role in analyzing injury diagnosis in car accident documentation is critical to attorneys and their cases. In Chapter 2, Injury Diagnosis in Car Accidents: The Role of Imaging from my book, Medical Record Analysis: A Guide for Attorneys by Expert LNCs Volume 3, the Role of Imaging is covered in full. This is an excerpt from…

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Mechanisms of Injury in Motor Vehicle Collisions

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Mechanisms of Injury in Motor Vehicle Collisions Mechanisms of injury refers to how traumatic forces affect the human body, causing injury. How can LNCs help attorneys with motor vehicle crash cases? You will need an understanding of the various forces exerted upon the vehicles and occupants (humans riding in the vehicle) in multiple configurations of…

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Medical Record Analysis: A Guide for Attorneys by Expert LNCs

  Medical Record Analysis – What is it? How do you decipher the often complex issues associated with medical cases? How do you make sense of often indecipherable medical records? And how do you tease apart the liability of these cases? Have you felt frustrated by the sheer amount of medical details involved in litigation?…

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