I’ve been privileged for 32 years to share my ideas with Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. Sometimes I inspire. Sometimes I excite. Sometimes I provoke. I know I’m onto something when I incite an RN or two into apoplexy and yes, that happened at least once or twice this year.
How many times have you gotten all geared up to analyze a medical case for an attorney-client only to find that the information is incomplete and records are missing? What’s a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant to do?
Yesterday I mentored a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant who is noticing that her CLNC business has plateaued. She’s been on a pretty nice ride for a while, but now she’s is ready to grow. She admits she hasn’t been paying much attention to the business itself – she’s just been trying to keep up with her legal nurse consulting jobs from attorney-clients.
TGIF? Yes? After all, today is not just any Friday, it’s the Friday after Christmas and for many of us that means a five day weekend. It doesn’t get much better than that!
This has been an exciting year for me. I’ve trekked with endangered mountain gorillas in Rwanda, attended a hilltop party hosted by my favorite Napa Valley wineries, experienced a 6.0 earthquake and had the privilege of creating a Bucket List experience for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants when Oprah dropped in on our Consultant 2.0 reception.
For years I’ve shared my morning tea time ritual with you and I can attest those calming minutes spent taking care of me have helped in many tough situations. As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant you’re guaranteed to experience moments when you don’t know the answer or an attorney catches you in a mistake.
Yesterday a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant sent in this mentoring request: “I am locating an MD expert for an attorney. What is the going referral rate for another CLNC consultant who refers an MD expert to me?” I advised that the standard business practice is to treat the referring Certified Legal Nurse Consultant as a CLNC subcontractor and pay 50% of the expert witness location fee.
When I was born Dad knew I would be different. He didn’t know why – he just knew. He sure didn’t know I’d start this crazy legal nurse consulting business, train Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, appear on national TV, author a New York Times bestselling book or rub shoulders with powerful people, but not once did he ever express surprise at my successes.
It took me completely by surprise, but earlier this month Microsoft released versions of its Office productivity software Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as three separate apps for the iOS. That means that Certified Legal Nurse Consultants who are iPhone and iPad users can enjoy the benefits of reading, creating and editing egal nurse consulting documents on their iOS devices.
I regularly post new litigation trends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ for all Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. My goal is for you to get your next legal nurse consulting job by researching and contacting the attorneys engaged in that new litigation.
*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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