Comments on: Make These 5 Promises to Unleash Your Legal Nurse Consulting Dreams http://www.legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/2009/07/make-these-5-promises-to-unleash-your-legal-nurse-consulting-dreams/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:02:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Diana Schmitt, RN, BSN, CLNC http://www.legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/2009/07/make-these-5-promises-to-unleash-your-legal-nurse-consulting-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-1985 Diana Schmitt, RN, BSN, CLNC Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:58:53 +0000 http://legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/?p=3987#comment-1985 During the first day of the CLNC<sup>®</sup> Certification Program in Atlanta, I looked around me at the attendees in the large room. I wondered if anyone was thinking what I was thinking. I longed for a purpose and a reason to feel connected to nursing. I wondered if anyone else felt like me, empty inside because of unfulfilled hopes and dreams that my nursing job could not fulfill. When Vickie took the stage that first day, she shared the 5 Promises that were the foundation of her belief in herself. But the words that have stuck with me all through my entrepreneurial venture have been, "I promise you." Vickie said these words several times before the first break and I jotted two of the promises down on the inside cover of the <em>Core</em>, "I will show you how to interface with the legal system," and "This will be a relationship and a partnership." I now own and operate a legal nurse consulting business. Wow! I became a CLNC<sup>®</sup> consultant after I passed the CLNC<sup>®</sup> Certification Exam, but just like Caroline, somewhere along the way I believed it. So far, I have only scratched the surface of this newly created passion for nursing. My legal nurse consulting dreams are unleashed, but now, I have to wrangle them in and work on focus. Thanks Vickie for allowing us to grab onto your hopes and dreams as our paths crossed. During the first day of the CLNC® Certification Program in Atlanta, I looked around me at the attendees in the large room. I wondered if anyone was thinking what I was thinking. I longed for a purpose and a reason to feel connected to nursing. I wondered if anyone else felt like me, empty inside because of unfulfilled hopes and dreams that my nursing job could not fulfill.

When Vickie took the stage that first day, she shared the 5 Promises that were the foundation of her belief in herself. But the words that have stuck with me all through my entrepreneurial venture have been, “I promise you.” Vickie said these words several times before the first break and I jotted two of the promises down on the inside cover of the Core, “I will show you how to interface with the legal system,” and “This will be a relationship and a partnership.”

I now own and operate a legal nurse consulting business. Wow! I became a CLNC® consultant after I passed the CLNC® Certification Exam, but just like Caroline, somewhere along the way I believed it. So far, I have only scratched the surface of this newly created passion for nursing.

My legal nurse consulting dreams are unleashed, but now, I have to wrangle them in and work on focus. Thanks Vickie for allowing us to grab onto your hopes and dreams as our paths crossed.

]]> By: Brenda Fore, RN, BSN, MHA, CLNC http://www.legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/2009/07/make-these-5-promises-to-unleash-your-legal-nurse-consulting-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 Brenda Fore, RN, BSN, MHA, CLNC Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:06:53 +0000 http://legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/?p=3987#comment-1981 I have been certified for 7 months and I have committed to doing something for my business each week. I am on the last steps of the origination phase. I am finalizing my business plan and making my follow up calls for my recent attorney office visits. I am excited to be making actual footsteps towards my CLNC<sup>®</sup> business. I can't wait to see what is around the corner. I have been certified for 7 months and I have committed to doing something for my business each week. I am on the last steps of the origination phase. I am finalizing my business plan and making my follow up calls for my recent attorney office visits. I am excited to be making actual footsteps towards my CLNC® business. I can’t wait to see what is around the corner.

]]> By: Caroline Bunner, RN, BSN, CLNC http://www.legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/2009/07/make-these-5-promises-to-unleash-your-legal-nurse-consulting-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-1980 Caroline Bunner, RN, BSN, CLNC Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:58:32 +0000 http://legalnurse.com/vickiesblog/?p=3987#comment-1980 It took me BELIEVING and not just SAYING that I was a CLNC<sup>®</sup> consultant and could do ANYTHING to begin to unleash my success. Sure, I was inspired by Vickie daily during the CLNC<sup>®</sup> course, but getting my first case made all of the difference. It was an optometry case and I have a critical care background. Really, could I do it? Well, I wasn't going to tell the client "no." I knew that I had thousands of CLNC<sup>®</sup> consultants to subcontract to. I just took a positive attitude and a systematic approach and was able to discern the information important to the case. After I compiled the screening report and reviewed it with my client I personally unleashed the beginning of my success. It's onward & upward, and never looking back! It took me BELIEVING and not just SAYING that I was a CLNC® consultant and could do ANYTHING to begin to unleash my success. Sure, I was inspired by Vickie daily during the CLNC® course, but getting my first case made all of the difference. It was an optometry case and I have a critical care background. Really, could I do it? Well, I wasn’t going to tell the client “no.” I knew that I had thousands of CLNC® consultants to subcontract to. I just took a positive attitude and a systematic approach and was able to discern the information important to the case. After I compiled the screening report and reviewed it with my client I personally unleashed the beginning of my success. It’s onward & upward, and never looking back!

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