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On the Road Again…

I’m about to hit the road again for the fall season of CLNC 6-Day Certification Seminars. Even though I must confess when I’m at home I enjoy my personal “Tower of Whipped Cream Terror” I find that when I’m at home it’s easier to maintain my healthy habits than when I’m on the road.

What Are You Going to Do with It Now?

I’m a big fan of data. As an entrepreneur, one of the lessons I’ve learned is that what gets measured gets done, or at least gets analyzed. Whether you’re running a legal nurse consulting business or selling cupcakes, data helps you to run and manage your business and you can’t run a business without data. But a big mistake I see people making is not putting brain power into the data analysis once it’s collected. Data doesn’t mean anything if it’s not interpreted properly.

Tom’s Tech Tips

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Now That You’ve Lost It – Don’t Lose It!

Unlike death and taxes, losing your smartphone or tablet isn’t inevitable, but may be likely. A CLNC consultant may put her device down at a crowded reception full of attorney-prospects or while exhibiting her legal nurse consulting business at a legal conference or it may just fall out of her purse/pocket without her knowing it. Once you survive the initial panic after realizing that it’s gone, the first thing you should do, if it’s a phone, is call it to see if you hear it ringing (or to see if someone answers). The second thing you should do is assume that it’s gone for good. If you subscribe to a service such as “Where the *#$% is my iPhone” try and locate it that way, but remember that every minute you spend searching for that device gives the miscreant who has it a better chance of hacking your life.

What Are You Leaving on the Table?

A CLNC student completed the CLNC Online Certification Program and attended the CLNC Certification Seminar to take the CLNC Certification Exam. She shared with me that she had already gotten her first attorney-client. She talked excitedly about how she quoted $125/hr without hesitation and that the attorney immediately hired her.

Is It Time to Deliver More Sack and Less Yack as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant?

Between mentoring Certified Legal Nurse Consultants and managing 23 employees, the expression “more sack, less yack” resonates with me. A CLNC consultant I have mentored numerous times highlights the importance of knowing when it’s time to stop talking and time to get in motion and start doing. She is full of good intentions and plenty of ideas, but falls short in the execution department.

There Are No Rules Here!

When successful Certified Legal Nurse Consultants recognize a problem, they don’t focus on that problem; instead they get to work on a solution. That’s a nursing skill we’re all familiar with. Think about it: when a patient arrests you don’t sit around and discuss the cause of the arrest or debate what to do – instead you jump in and handle the situation with speed, focus and accuracy. Root cause analysis can come later: first there’s a life to save.

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – It’s Time to Get Relevant

If you walk by a news stand, turn on the TV or even surf the Internet you’ll find way too much information. Every media outlet is grasping for our attention and trying so hard to stay relevant that they’re actually making themselves irrelevant by pumping out a lot of information that borders on the ridiculous. How much longer are we going to hear about Tom and Katie’s divorce? And do any of us really want to hear an exhausting analysis of every statement every politician ever makes, whether big or small? People are even starting to mirror that same behavior on Facebook and Twitter by clogging up our news feeds with meaningless posts and tweets. For me it all adds up to a low signal-to-noise ratio and my solution is to tune out the irrelevance.

Tom’s Tech Tips

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Legal Nurse Consultants – Put a Timer On It with Timer-Tab.com

If you’re at all like me, or maybe even more like me than I am myself, you tend to put your head down and work until you’re done and sometimes even longer. Nurses are used to working without breaks of any kind – lunch, restroom, water, etc. – and they carry this habit over into their legal nurse consulting businesses with pride and passion.

*The opinions and statements made by Vickie Milazzo, the founder of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. are based on her experiences and expertise, should not be applied beyond the specific context provided, and do not guaranty or project actual results. Vickie Milazzo is no longer involved in the operations or management of the business, but is involved as an independent education consultant.

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