Legal Nurse Consulting
Legal Nurse Consultant Reports: What Attorneys Want video
Watch this short video to determine what attorneys want from legal nurse consultant reports. Tailor your reports to meet your client’s expectations. Join Pat Iyer for a free webinar on to discover how to get more clients with your top notch writing skills. Get details here. Pat Iyer MSN RN LNCC is president of The…
Read MoreMedical records and LNC subcontractors
A legal nurse consultant recently asked if she should allow one of her clients to send medical records directly to her subcontractor. Does your client know your subcontractor? The request of the attorney to send records to the subcontractor is tricky. If this person is an expert, the attorney would know the identity of the…
Read More5 Grammatical Mistakes in LNC Reports
After proofreading thousands of LNC reports, I prepared this list of 5 grammatical mistakes in LNC reports. This is a list of common offenders. Do you want to present yourself a well-qualified communicator, one who understands how attorneys scrutinize every word in a report? Here is what NOT to do. 1. Don’t confuse possessive and…
Read MoreStreamlining Communication with Attorney Clients with SBAR
Do you know how to have great communication with attorney clients? Consider this situation: Your client asks you to review a case for merit and to prepare an analysis report. Legal nurse consultants come from the medical world where targeted communication is prized. You see concerning changes in your patient’s condition. You pick up the…
Read MoreHow Do You Describe Your Legal Nurse Consulting Value?
I see too many legal nurse consulting websites that all say the same thing. Here is language from an LNC whose site comes up on the 4th page of Google. This is a great placement, because it is the first LNC website I found after all of the ones that market legal nurse consulting preparation…
Read MoreHow to Drop A Low Profit Attorney Client
You’ve worked hard on your marketing to attract clients. You may be wondering, “Why should I drop a low profit attorney client I have worked hard to obtain?” Some clients are not worth the effort it takes to work with them. Business owner Cheryl Schoen RN recently referred to these as the “black hole clients”.…
Read MoreShould You Discount Your Legal Nurse Consulting Fees?
An attorney approaches you to review a case as a legal nurse consultant. When he hears your fees, he requests you discount your legal nurse consulting fees. He says, “I’m a nice guy. You shouldn’t charge me that rate.” “Your competition is charging less than that.” “If you lower your fees, I will give you…
Read MoreProfessional Photographs of Legal Nurse Consultants
Head shots are also known as professional photographs of legal nurse consultants. What are they and why do I need them? Why do they cost so much? These are the typical questions I receive and the commentary in conversations I overhear. Seems everyone either needs, wants (or doesn’t want) a head shot. Perhaps they 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 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?…
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