Today is Labor Day and for most of us it’s a day off to picnic with our family, rest by the pool or do something else fun. For me it’s also about remembering a terminally ill registered nurse who attended the CLNC Certification Seminar several years ago.
I’m getting ready to start our fall seminar season and when I hit the road next week, Christmas will be upon me before I even have a chance to look up. With three quarters of the year behind us, this is the perfect time to reflect on one of my favorite quotes by Nelson Mandela.
As Labor Day approaches and as legal nurse consultants have become more mobile in your labor, I’ve reconsidered my stance on tablets versus laptops/desktops. I don’t believe that, as of today, a tablet can fully replace what, for purposes of this Tech Tip, I’ll call an “actual computer.” But experimentation and experience is showing that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is coming pretty close.
It feels good to love what you do and a favorite part of my job as a legal nurse consulting educator is hearing how much CLNC consultants love their legal nurse consulting jobs with attorneys. Four CLNC Pros share what they like best about their legal nurse consulting careers. Here’s what they have to say.
As a charge nurse and assistant manager, one of my responsibilities was chart review. I continually stressed the need for thorough and timely documentation with my staff. One day my wife suggested I’d do well as a legal nurse consultant.
Despite popular belief and the laws of gravity, shit really does flow uphill, at least for entrepreneurs. Own a legal nurse consulting business and you also own responsibility for everyone associated with you – employees, subcontractors and vendors. There’s a reason you get paid the big bucks – when someone fails you, the repercussions of said failure fall on your shoulders.
Like most Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, when typing a new document I’ll use an earlier version of a similar document as a template. As a best practice, I immediately retitle the old document with the new document name and save that new document with its new name. By doing so, I don’t accidently overwrite the old document. Sound confusing? It’s not. And, as long as you do it religiously, it works great and any reasonably disciplined CLNC consultant can, and should, do it.
Recently we hired a new company to supply LegalNurse.com with a specific type of software. We thought we’d done our due diligence, but despite the successful sales pitches and demonstrations, it turned out that the software wasn’t as compatible with our CRM system as the salesperson had represented.
Sometimes a project can seem overwhelming. You don’t know where to start or which foot to put forward first. You’re stumped, scared and going nowhere. For 33 years in my legal nurse consulting business I’ve too often made the mistake of worrying about how little I could do towards a daunting project and letting that concern stop me in my tracks.
Yesterday I received an email from someone I know who passed on about this time last year. It isn’t the first time he emailed me posthumously, and it won’t be the last. In fact, he isn’t the only dead person that emails me. What is so urgent that this legion of apparently living dead have to communicate from the other side? Well, as you can guess, it was spam and not for life-extending supplements.
*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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