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Polish Your Legal Nurse Consulting Reports part 2
Your goal as a legal nurse consultant is to persuade your attorney client – of your analysis, your opinion, or how to present the medical facts. Here are tips for writing persuasive and polished legal nurse consulting reports. See part 1 for more tips and part 3 for the conclusion of this series. Tips for…
Read MorePolish Your Legal Nurse Consulting Reports part 1
Highlighting key facts helps you persuade in your report. An articulate and organized legal nurse consultant is better prepared to create a persuasive report for a client. Barbara Boschert from St. Louis, MO shares her tip for creating polished legal nurse consulting reports. Use key points Barbara said: When possible, I keep specific key points…
Read MoreWriting for Attorneys – This is Not Academia
Many legal nurse consultants have college degrees and recall laboring over term papers. Writing for attorneys is different from academic writing in several ways. (Read “Polish Your Writing Skills“.) Why writing for attorneys is different 1. Academic writing is heavily cited. The more footnotes, the better, according to some professors. Reports written for attorneys may…
Read More3 Tips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 4
If you are a legal nurse consultants, you’ll benefit from being able to write persuasive and analytical reports. Attorneys count on you to be able to clear express your opinion. Follow these tips for persuasive legal nurse consulting writing. Part 3 of this blog post series described ways to break up content. This concluding blog…
Read MoreTips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 3
Legal nurse consultants: do you want to know how to write better advertising and marketing copy for your legal nurse consulting business, whether you are writing a letter, email, blog post, website content, or brochure? How can you create persuasive legal nurse writing? Part 2 of this blog post series covered 3 tips: Split long…
Read More3 Tips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 2
Learn how to keep your legal nurse consulting reports interesting and persuasive. To find out how to improve your copywriting skills, follow these tips. Part 1 covered 3 tips: Vary sentence length, cut out the fluff and eliminate prepositions. Here are the next 3 tips. Split Long Sentences If you find yourself writing extremely long…
Read More3 Tips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 1
Whether this is new material or simply a refresher, you’ll be able to write better advertising and marketing copy for your legal nurse consulting business, no matter whether you are writing a letter, email, blog post, website content, or brochure. As a side benefit, if you get really good at this skill, you might consider…
Read MoreExpert Witnesses: Supporting Your Nursing Opinion
Expert witnesses need to provide an attorney with evidence to support their opinions. I am an independent legal nurse consultant with over a decade of experience who has reviewed dozens of expert cases and thousands of “behind the scenes” cases. I have provided deposition and trial testimony. Communicating this evidence of your opinion can be…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultants: Are You Writing in Geek?
Are you writing in geek? What do I mean? Imagine you are an attorney who has hired a legal nurse consultant to summarize and analyze complex obstetrical medical records. You don’t understand medical terminology and you know that the information in the record is crucial to understanding the case. You give the records to the…
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…
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