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Imagine being able to get dozens or even hundreds of attorney-prospects at the push of a button. Then you’re able to start marketing to them, knowing that you have a solid hot lead.

I found a tool that wasn’t designed with Certified Legal Nurse Consultants in mind; however, it could be a great weapon in your arsenal. It’s software called The Localizer Leads Tool. The Localizer Leads Tool is an Adobe Air-based marketing software program, which simply means it will run on both Macs and Windows PCs.

The Localizer Leads Tool pulls specific information on attorneys from Google, giving you access to their address, email, website, phone number and more. This tool allows any Certified Legal Nurse Consultant to instantly generate massive lists of attorney-prospects.

This video explains how a CLNC^® Consultant would use this tool to generate attorney-prospect leads with the push of a button.

Click here for a free trial of The Localizer Leads Tool and click here to purchase.

P.S. Comment and share how you find attorney-prospects on the Internet

Guest Blogger Profile

Brian Horn is an Internet marketing consultant who specializes in search engine marketing, site optimization, social media marketing, link building and web data analytics. Brian has consulted with Vickie Milazzo Institute for more than five years.

Brian also speaks at seminars and conferences throughout the U.S., Australia and Canada on how to use the Internet to improve business.

It’s never good to rely on just one search engine. On June 7th I recommended that CLNC^® consultants keep both a customized Yahoo!^® and Google^® homepage in their browsers. In an even earlier blog, I explained how to customize your Google homepage for RSS feeds which will keep you in the know. This week I’ll tell you how to do the same for your Yahoo! homepage.

First of all, go to Yahoo.com – the page should look like this.

Now, click the My Yahoo! link in the top left corner of the page and you’ll see a page that looks similar to this.

Now click Yes, please! in the bar at the top of the page, fill in your information for location, interests and click Done when you’re done. You’ll be redirected to this page:

Yahoo! wants you to register and create a Yahoo! account. Go ahead, click Register in the top left to set up an account. When you get to the “Congratulations” screen either complete the registration information and set your privacy settings, or simply click Yahoo! in the top right to go back to the Yahoo! homepage and click My Yahoo! to get back your customized page.

Now you savvy CLNC^® consultants can click Themes to customize a theme, Options for article previewing and other options and then Content to start adding in your RSS feeds and other notifications from all your important legal nurse consulting news and alert sites. Each time click I’m done to save your changes until you’re satisfied with the way you’ve customized the page.

If you wish to go further, you can click Tips at the bottom of the page to find all sorts of useful tips on how to customize the page.

Here’s my favorite: Unlike iGoogle^® you’ll have to see if your web browser will automatically open links in new tabs. Not all browsers support it; some you have to open manually (usually Crtl-Click). If you get in the habit, it’s a good one. That way each time you click on a link in your search results it’ll open up in a new tab – keeping your original search results intact!

Be sure to write down your user name and password, tell Yahoo! to keep you signed in and set http://my.yahoo.com as your homepage in your browser before you close it and you’ll be set!

Keep on techin’,

Tom

I know many Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, both new and “seasoned,” like Google for their searching. Did you know you can personalize it and set how many search results it displays? I recommend that CLNC^® consultants customize both Yahoo!^® and Google^® in their browsers. Customization can take a couple of different paths. This week I’m going to talk about customizing your Google homepage. The more things change, the more they stay the same – this is a quick update of an earlier Tech Tip.

Some Certified Legal Nurse Consultants like the simplicity of the Google homepage.

The extent of a CLNC^® consultant’s customization might be to set her search results to display 100 instead of 10. Another CLNC^® consultant might simply change her background image.

Finally, a savvy CLNC^® consultant might set up a theme and add RSS feeds from all of her important news and alert sites.

To customize your Google homepage, you’ll have to set up a Google account and you can do so using your existing email address (or create a Gmail^® address). Simply go to Google, click Change background image in the bottom left side of the plain white Google screen and it’ll take you to the screen where you’ll set up your Google account.

After you’ve done that, change your background image and then go up to the little gear in the top right corner of the Google screen (see image 2 above) and select Search Settings which will take you to the Google Preferences page. You can customize this all you want, but what’s important is to scroll down and turn OFF Google Instant and then scroll further down and set Number of Results to 100. Click Save Preferences and all your searches will display 100 results.

If you wish to go further, you can again click on the little gear in the top right of the Google screen and this time select iGoogle. Now you can follow the instructions here to set up a customized homepage and start adding all sorts of useful content. Before you exit iGoogle^TM go to iGoogle Settings on that little gear in the top right corner and on the General tab check the box next to Open links in a new tab or browser window. Each time you click a link in your results it’ll open up in a new tab – keeping your original search results intact!

Be sure to set iGoogle as your homepage before you close your browser and you’ll be set! I’ll tell you how to customize your Yahoo! homepage in a later blog.

Keep on techin’,

Tom

Google^® this, Google that, Google, Google, Google. Do CLNC^® consultants ever get tired of hearing about Google? I know I do, but hey, as they say in Nepal “Kay garne” (if you don’t know what that means, Google it). No matter what you think, Google is here to stay.

A lot of good things have come from Google. I think one of the best is the Chrome web browser for PC or Mac. Anyone who reads my blog knows my Firefox^® browsing preferences – well that’s about to change. I downloaded and installed the Chrome browser.

Installation was fast and simple. It gave me the option to import bookmarks and passwords from Internet Explorer^® 8 or Firefox so I chose Firefox. The transition was smooth. All my bookmarks, favorites and (this is scary) even my saved passwords (which I thought were encrypted) were imported into Chrome.

When I opened Chrome, my bookmarks bar (love it) and all my drop-down bookmarks were in place. I was able to seamlessly browse from site to site. Logins were just as I had set them up in Firefox. Chrome even looks more modern than Firefox. It’s minimalist and streamlined – kind of like a Maserati GranTurismo compared to Firefox’s retro-Honda Element. You can download and install different themes. It even pulled in all my RSS feeds from my customized Yahoo!^® and Google homepages.

I like this feature and I know Certified Legal Nurse Consultants will too because it saves lots of time in re-building or re-loading those newsfeeds. You won’t miss a minute of important news for your legal nurse consulting business.

Plus, if you look closely at the top of the image above, you’ll see that the top of the browser isn’t taken up with useless toolbars like IE. I do not like losing the top inch of my screen to bars I don’t use, can’t organize or get rid of, and Chrome seems to respect this by making the browsing screen as large as possible. As a busy legal nurse consultant trying to research online, you’ll appreciate the amount of text that you can see on a webpage at one time.

Chrome supports tabbed browsing and, get this, you can move the tabs around to organize them! This is terrific if you do a lot of research online and are constantly opening new tabs. Chrome’s improvement allows you to move relevant tabs to one side to group them for quick reference. There’s a little [+] tab that visually shows your most visited pages much like iTunes and Safari. This helps you quickly find pages you recognize without sorting through a long list of abbreviated bookmark descriptions.

If you think I can’t say enough about Chrome for your legal nurse consulting business, you’re wrong. One more thing I like in terms of security, Chrome “sandboxes” each open tab to protect you from miscreants. This terrific feature is supposed to keep malware from getting into your computer from a poisoned website. Anyone worried about their legal nurse consulting business or personal computer will love this.

Finally, like Firefox, Chrome supports all sorts of extensions. I’m sure that the number and variations of extensions will increase. Web of Trust and my 1-ClickWeather extensions installed flawlessly. There’s even an IE extension that lets you see a webpage as if you’re using Internet Explorer – this is terrifically handy for pages that aren’t cross-browser designed.

If you’re looking for a worthy and safe web browser – Google Chrome can’t be beat. You go Google!

Keep on techin,
Tom

Wired magazine recently posed the question of whether the Web is dead or not. Based on my own (I’m hoping not atypical) behavior I’m starting to think like a Monty Python movie character. Although the Web may be circling the drain, it will probably tell you, “I’m not dead yet.”

I don’t mean we don’t use the Web anymore. I mean we use it differently than we did right after Al Gore “created” the information superhighway. Let’s be honest, when was the last time you sat down and just plain “Googled” something? Unless you’re doing a background check on a prospective blind date or researching an attorney-prospect for your legal nurse consulting business, I’m willing to wager it’s been a while.

According to Fortune magazine Google’s search growth has gone flat, which means they have to find new forms of advertising revenue. This accounts for Google’s movement into television (Google^® TV), productivity software (Google Apps), videoconferencing (Google Video Chat) and everything else you can think of (I wish they’d come up with Google Fridge so I could quickly locate tasty snacks hidden behind the tofu and Vickie’s Fage Greek yogurt.

Pure unadulterated search is what we originally did on the Web – back when it was a brave new World Wide Web. Today though, most Certified Legal Nurse Consultants I’ve talked to seem to rely on the bookmarks in their browsers to find what they need. Now, we spend time searching on sites, not on search sites. The Web itself is not to blame – it’s Google, Microsoft^®, Yahoo!^® and other search companies (at least those who haven’t been bought by Google) who bear the burden of rendering themselves obsolete.

They made it easy for us, too easy in fact, by allowing us to aggregate the information we need in one place, without needing to search for it. I’ve blogged about customizing my iGoogle homepage to deliver newsfeeds via RSS so that when I go to Google I can instantly see what’s right with the world, catch up on litigation trends and check the weather. My Yahoo! homepage has feeds from my favorite blogs as well as the feeds from NIH and the stock market. Across the top of my Firefox browser, I have bookmarks to my essential websites (like Vickie’s Blog, Amazon and our Vickie Milazzo Institute websites) so that with a simple click of my mouse, I can go anywhere I wish, all within my own clearly defined small Web world.

Beside those bookmarks, which limit my travels by only opening one page at a time, I use a cool little Firefox add-on called Morning Coffee. This instant add-on, with one click on the coffee cup icon, opens five or six other web pages all at once and allows me to survey even more territory without search effort. I don’t even visit Weather.com anymore because I’ve got the 1-Click Weather browser add-in that tells me what’s going on outside and what I can expect tomorrow. In other words, I use Google and Yahoo! for news and information – not search. I don’t see their ads and they’ve defeated their core purpose by making it so easy to learn what I want without searching.

In fact, I don’t have the luxury of search. If you’re a busy Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, unless you’re researching a specific topic, you probably don’t either. When you are researching for your latest case, you’re not Googling, you’re probably clicking on a bookmark to go to your favorite research site and searching there, not sorting through the first 10 of 1,149,134 results on Google, Yahoo! or Bing.

Admit it – you spend more time on Medline, YouTube and Facebook than you do on Google. You probably don’t even search on eBay. I’ll bet you’ve saved your eBay searches as bookmarks. Some of you have even downloaded a dashboard like Tweetdeck to help you keep track of your Certified Legal Nurse Consulting colleagues on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.

If you’ve followed my Tech Tips, you’ve customized your own Google and Yahoo! homepages to add in the news feeds necessary for your legal nurse consulting business. You’ve also probably added your favorite bookmarks to the top of your browser. And, if you’re like me, you don’t even use that goofy search box that somehow got accidently added to the top of your browser (you don’t need it). If I need to search I’ll do so simply by typing what I’m looking for into the URL address portion of my Firefox browser and let it pull up the search results. (Yes, they come from Google since I’ve set it as my default search tool, but I don’t go to Google first.)

So, my CLNC^® amigos, I ask you, is the Web dead or have we simply changed how we use it? Has the fun worn off and has it become less of an information superhighway or simply a means to visit your favorite LOLcat site? Do you habitually visit only favored sites or do you still surf? If you do search, is it within certain sites like NIH, YouTube or CDC? Comment and tell me how you use the Web and how your online behavior has changed, if at all.

Keep on techin’,
Tom

One of the chief complaints I hear from legal nurse consultants about Gmail is that unlike Outlook, Thunderbird or other email clients, you have to be online to access or work with your Gmail email. If you’re a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant who wants to use your Gmail without the Internet (like when you’re on an airplane or in some inferior coffee shop that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi), follow these steps:

1. Log into your Gmail account.
2. Click Settings in the top right corner of the screen.
3. Click Labs in the top right corner.
4. Look for the selection for Offline Gmail and set the button to Enable and then click Save Changes.

Your web browser will then reload and there will be a new link that says Offline^0.2 in the top of your Gmail screen. Click on that new link and follow the instructions (you’ll need to download Google Gears but Google will help you) and download your Gmail email. Before you know it, you’ll have offline access to your Gmail no matter where you are! If you ever work from an intermittent wireless connection this could be a lifesaver. Of course, you can’t send or receive email while in offline mode.

Keep on Techin’,

Tom

As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, do you use Google^® to search on a regular (or exclusive) basis? If you’re like me, you’re tired of seeing only 10 results per page. You know, scan the page, click next on the Gooooooooooogle link and then see the next 10 links, repeat – next 10, repeat – next 10, repeat – ad nauseum and if you’re as tired as I am of that basic white Google homepage that offers little in the way of excitement other than an occasional logo change, it’s time to take matters into your own hands. Open your Internet Explorer^® or Firefox^® browser and point it to Google. Next, create an account with Google. It’s quick, easy and it’s free (plus they know all about you anyway – they’re Google after all).

After you create your account, go back to Google and click on iGoogle (in the top right corner of the page). You may not need to, it may take you right to iGoogle^TM. When you get to iGoogle (you’ll know) you can select a theme from the “Create your own homepage in under 30 seconds” box. Check a few of the options in the Select Interests box. You can change them later. When you’re done click on “See your page.”

Once you do you’ll see that your new iGoogle homepage has changed considerably. There will be new content like a useless clock, perhaps weather, news from CNN or perhaps your local paper or The New York Times. Ignore these changes for now, we’ve got important work to do.

First, go to the top of your new iGoogle homepage and click on either Preferences or Search Preferences (depending on which one you see). You can then tell Google to display 100 (really 100!) search results per page. You can also tell it to open search results in a new window. This is way cool – your original 100 results remain in place and each link opens in a new window. This way, as you evaluate each result for a case you’re working on for your CLNC^® business, you don’t lose the original results and can close each page (or follow its links) as you wish. Save your preferences and go back to iGoogle.

Next, you can select your theme or change your theme. You’ll have pages and pages of customizable themes (header images and page colorations) that will change the way you look at Google forever (or at least until you change themes). Vickie loves trekking and hiking in the mountains so she selected a cool theme that reminds her of the Bhutanese Himalayas. I’ve got an electro-techno-looking theme that charges me up. Some themes are static – the same all the time. Other themes change throughout the day. (Try Pocoyó for a fun, changing theme). You can search the themes by keywords to find one you like.

The Institute has also developed a theme specific to Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. You can get the iGoogle CLNC^® theme by logging into the NACLNC^® Community. Once logged into the Community, click Member Seal and Other Downloads. Select the iGoogle CLNC^® theme to easily upload it to your iGoogle homepage.

Now that iGoogle’s looking different, your next step is to address the new content that’s been added to your homepage, courtesy of iGoogle’s Gadget APIs (you’ve learned a new tech word. Now, instead of saying “I can’t go out with you Friday, I’m washing my hair,” you can say “I’m staying in Friday to use Core JavaScript Features and Standard XMLHttpRequest class objects to customize the APIs for my iGoogle homepage.”)

The APIs allow you to drag and drop, add and delete and even resize feeds on your iGoogle homepage. To take advantage of this, the first thing to do is navigate to Vickie’s Blog and click the Subscribe to Feed link at the top left. Now, instead of subscribing by email, select the option under Subscribe Now! to read the blog with your iGoogle or My Yahoo! web-based reader. It’ll then take you back to your iGoogle homepage and should show a box listing the last four headlines. You can then grab the “Vickie’s Blog” box with a left click and drag it anywhere on your page. Use the little icons in the top right of each feed box to delete a feed from your page or to move it around your iGoogle homepage.

Now visit other blogs, news sites (NYTimes.com) or alert sites (FDA.gov) and add their feeds to your homepage. Do a Google search for medical-malpractice news and feeds or other types of cases that interest you to find a wealth of news, facts and opinions. Almost all of these information sources for your Certified Legal Nurse Consulting business can be added to your new homepage. On mine I keep the local weather, a stock market ticker, global and local (Houston Chronicle) news and legal feeds. As you learn of new, interesting feeds you can add them, deleting the feeds you no longer need.

I haven’t tried this in IE8 yet, but in my Firefox browser I have multiple tabs that open each time I start Firefox. My homepage and primary display tab hold legal feeds, my secondary is tech feeds (natch!) and the last is news and current events (like movies). Every time I open a browser, I take 2-3 seconds to scan the headlines and then get to searching. One more tip is to use both IE8 and Firefox. I’ve set IE8 to Google, and Firefox to Yahoo!^® and I’ve got different content on each browser. My ultimate search destination (legal, news or research) helps me select which browser to open.

This blog has primarily been about Google but, with the exception of themes and colorizations, you can customize Yahoo! just as easily as you can Google.

Remember, use a combination of search engines to get the best results. You’re cheating yourself out of information gathering otherwise. Customizing your homepages will put more information at your fingertips. Just make sure it’s useful.

Keep on techin’,

Tom

Friday I came home from work, docked my computer, fired it up and went to check the movie times at the dollar theater for my big date with Vickie. Fired up Firefox – nothing. Opened up IE8 – nothing. Tried Safari – still nothing. Looked at the DSL modem and router – all seemed fine (all das blinkenlights vas blinken und flashen). My first reaction was that my end is working, it must be that the Internet is down.

Since I was in a hurry to catch up with Vickie for dinner and a movie I didn’t have time to adequately diagnose the problem. Now, I can go a month without cable television. I only watch “The Weather Channel” anyway (it brings my blood pressure down getting “Locals on the 8s”). But the prospect of a weekend without the Internet terrified me. How would I know what was on eBay, what the Octomom was up to and how was I going to download the latest LOLcat in my Fam-spam?

All through dinner and Star Trek I thought about the problem. Was it limited to my computer? Did I have a cable pulled out? Had I paid the bill? Was there any construction on the street yesterday that could have cut my lifeline to Google? Was the Internet really down (there wasn’t anything on the radio about it) or was it something even more sinister?

I put it out of my mind and managed to have a fitful night’s sleep. The next morning, after a cup of healthy green tea to stimulate my mental processes (well process anyway), I attacked the problem fresh. First, I rebooted my computer. Still nada. Second, I fired up Vickie’s computer and, while it was booting, checked all the cables running into my dock/port replicator – all were in place and my network connection light was blinking properly. Third, I looked in the system tray in the bottom right of my screen to see if my LAN (local area network) connection was functioning – LAN was okay.

Fourth, I checked Vickie’s computer – no Internet there either. Problem duplicated so I know it’s not isolated to my computer alone (good news – maybe).

Next I called AT&T to hear the Internet outage report. No problems in my local area. Even though AT&T gave me a clean bill of health, I called them back, punched through all the voice-prompt systems and finally talked to Elvis from Bangalore. Elvis (who’s actually a really nice guy in Toronto who can’t pronounce “Toronto” in Canadian), tells me that he is showing a strong signal going to my router. In other words, it’s not AT&T’s fault I can’t get online, it’s me.

“So,” I ask Elvis, “what’s the next logical step?” He tells me it’s easy – just reboot my modem and router and see if that’s the issue. That’s what I was hoping not to hear; that’s the dirty job, involving crawling under the desk through a passel of dust bunnies to check all the cables on my DSL modem and my router. Elvis wasn’t up to it (but he did offer to stay on the line until the issue was resolved) so someone else had to do it. Vickie was still downstairs drinking healthy green tea oblivious to the impending disaster that would befall us if I couldn’t get the Internet back on. The job fell to me. Everything else had tested negative, it was time to tuck my red cape into my shorts, take Elvis’s advice and pull the plugs.

First, I unplugged the router then unplugged the DSL modem. Das blinkenlights are no longer blinken. I waited a minute to allow any dynamic memory to clear itself out. Once everything was still (not blinken) I took a deep breath, plugged the DSL modem back in and let it fire up (start blinken). Then I plugged the router back in and let it acquire a signal from the modem (and start blinken). Next, still holding my breath, I walked back to my computer, fired up the browser and…Yahoo! It’s back! I started breathing again, thanked Elvis profusely and got on with my day. I also have a WAP – a wireless access point (to give me wireless in the backyard) plugged into the router so I rebooted that too just for good measure.

What’s the takeaway for the Certified Legal Nurse Consultant? When your Internet is unavailable, don’t call your computer manufacturer’s help line. Instead follow these steps:

1) If you have a second computer sharing your network, see if it can connect to the Internet (I know, I didn’t do that first).

2) Reboot your computer to make sure it’s picked up any connections.

3) Check your physical network connections (your LAN) to your computer (skip if you’re connecting wirelessly).

4) Call your Internet service provider (ISP) to see if there are any network outages affecting your area.

5) Reboot/restart your cable or DSL modem and any router/hubs and/or WAPs you have plugged into that modem.

Internet outages are rare – the issue is usually something simple, so attack the problem in a logical order and you should get a simple and fast resolution.

Here’s another takeaway – if you’ve gone to VoIP (voice over internet protocol) for your legal nurse consulting business your phone calls are going through your Internet connection. This means that when your Internet is down you’ll need a cell phone or a landline to report the problem!

Keep on techin’,

Tom

We’re all looking for a few ways to save money – whether it’s the budget for our legal nurse consulting business or our family budget. This week’s Tech Tips will focus on some innovative ways to save money.

A recent headline in one of my tech journals exclaimed that Dell Computers has made over a million dollars (U.S.) from Twitter. Not being a Twitter subscriber, I was immediately curious how they could do this. It turns out it’s pretty simple. Dell has thirty different accounts on Twitter, each with a specific purpose. But if you subscribe to the Twitter stream for Dell Outlet you’ll get special offers on computers and other Dell products. That’s one way to get something useful out of Twitter. For those of us who aren’t “Tweets,” you can also use your blog reader to subscribe to a variety of Dell’s RSS Feeds that offer special deals, support and other information.

My mom was an inveterate coupon clipper (she also collected S&H Green Stamps if anyone remembers those). I have fond memories of her clipping through newspapers and magazines in search of 5 cents off this, 10 cents off that and driving across town to catch double coupon day at the Acme market. If you’ve ever used a shopping cart to check out after an Internet purchase (especially on Amazon.com), you’ll often see a box asking you for promotional claim codes. Ever wonder where everybody else but you gets these? It’s pretty simple – there are any number of websites on the Internet offering coupons (I’m trying to picture my mom and her scissors and a computer screen – too funny) but most are for groceries and other useless stuff.

One truly good site is RetailMeNot.com. This site allows you to search for coupons for a variety of items by category and instead of toothpaste, it offers technology. You can actually search for computers, software, consumer electronics and more. Once you get into the computers category, you’ll find a searchable listing of coupons by manufacturer and by reseller. If you’re willing to spend some time searching you’ll find some great bargains here (I repeat: if you’re willing to spend some time searching). Some of these aren’t really coupons and will point you to special offers by web merchants that you may not have found on your own. They also rate “unreliable” coupons to help keep you from getting outfoxed. Good luck!

My last tip on saving money – other than Mozilla Firefox with its really cool add-ons, Thunderbird for email and most Google Apps – don’t download free software off the Internet. If you must, do a simple Google search for that software and include the words “bugs, complaints, issues, malware” in your search. This is a pretty good way to see if what you’re about to download is freeware or malware. At the risk of painting my pixels with too broad a brush, lots of free software is really malware. You don’t want malware on your computer and the best way to get it is to download a cool cursor, load an off-brand “required player” for a video or song, or sign up for a free virus scan at a website you’ve never heard of before. Free can cost you a lot of money and time when you get your identity hacked or have to dial 1.800.Call.A.Geek or haul your computer off to get it cleaned and vaccinated.

Keep on Techin’,

Tom

Tom’s favorite search tool is Yahoo. Our director of education likes Google. My favorite search tool is Tom! Every day we field questions from CLNC^® consultants and even attorneys that are easily found through a quick Internet search. Tom has become a master at searching out the most arcane facts from the furthest reaches of the Internet. He uses a variety of search engines, constantly juggles and refines search terms, and even uses whole sentence searches. If you want to know what species of monkey is endemic to Canada, he’s the one to ask.

If I need a restaurant in Oslo or Poughkeepsie, he’ll not only find me a local review and suggestions on which species of sea urchin tastes best in October, but ferret out the name of the fisherman who sold it to the restaurant. Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but Tom is the one who has harnessed its power for the good of Vickie-kind. I may be exaggerating a little here, okay I’m exaggerating a lot. But with a little bit of mental sweat you can search as well as Tom.

There’s a wealth of medical, nursing, state and federal resources out there. You can learn about who can report Medicare and Medicaid fraud, what’s new in healthcare regulations and find answers to all sorts of questions simply by putting Google to work for you. Before you take the time to fill out that mentoring request to learn the definition of a legal term in your home state of Idaho just do a quick online search. We constantly answer mentoring questions that could have been answered with a simple trip to Google. Get the most out of your CLNC^® Mentoring by doing your search before you request mentoring. What’s good about this is that you will expand your knowledge and at the same time learn you can answer many of your own questions.

I always tell new CLNC^® consultants that, “we won’t do your work for you” and we won’t. We’re here to be your coach and to guide you on how to do the work, handle your CLNC^® business and to answer your questions (things you can’t necessarily find online). Don’t use the mentoring process to replace the thinking process or the nursing process. You’ve been trained to think critically as a nurse, you do it on the job and you do it naturally. Apply the nursing process to the legal nurse consulting process and you’ll come out a winner.

There’s a world of knowledge out there. Use it and use it wisely. Educate yourself and your attorney-clients. But, like Tom says, “Search smarter, not harder and don’t depend on Wikipedia unless you want to be road kill on the information superhighway.” Twitter you later!

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