One of the first things all Certified Legal Nurse Consultants learn in the CLNC® Certification Program is the 34 CLNC® services you can and do provide to your attorney-clients. In today’s video blog, one of our CLNC® Mentors shares a brand new CLNC® service she is providing to attorneys. Watch this video to add one more service to your own CLNC® business.
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, let me paint you a picture of pure bliss. Two weeks in the Piedmonte and Lake Districts of Italy, starting the trip in Milano for a little shopping to get over the jet lag. Good food, great wine, better company (Vickie of course) and no email, iPhone or contact with the outside cyber-world.
Having said that, let me make a confession. Vickie disconnects easier than I do. When we leave the country she leaves it behind. The office can contact her if it’s on fire but otherwise it needs to be of very high importance before they call. Vickie won’t check email because she figures it’ll ruin the vacation. We’ve been around people who walk, head down, through the Sistine Chapel responding to email and don’t get to enjoy the beauty above them.
We don’t go naked though when we leave the country. We have a “dumb” smart phone that we take with us. It’s a pretty good phone, but it isn’t connected to a data plan, it doesn’t play music and it won’t surf the web (I think it might accept text messages but I haven’t tried it) – it’s phone calls only.
Tom and I travel a lot which means exposure to lots of different types of meals, over which the quality is often out of our control (sort of). No matter how hard we try we can’t control the amounts of sodium and trans-fats or even get real olive oil for a salad. I have my own vices which include movie popcorn, fried chicken and a good bowl of spaghetti and meatballs.
Some days I love email. Other days, I believe it represents the end of intelligent life on earth. Email, like texting, allows us to communicate in real time without the hassle of actually speaking to another person and therein lies the rub.
Everybody’s favorite social media site Facebook announced a new feature that can make it more friendly and more useful to Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. The feature I like is a new one within what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “groups.”
My twin brother, Vince, loves animals – I think on some days even more than he loves people. He’s always trying to get me to buy a horse or a dog and whenever he does, Tom chimes in “this is the woman who kills houseplants.”
Owning a computer for your legal nurse consulting business means installing software. Installing software means that you’ll be updating it sooner or later. Anytime you install software you’re going to run across a license agreement that you must accept or decline before you can complete the installation process. But, my CLNC® amigos, do you blindly click “Yes – I accept” or do you make a rational choice and actually read the license before you do that?
The first attorney I consulted with as a legal nurse consultant was serendipity. Everything I did was perfectly in sync with him. We hit it off like best friends – it was as though we had known each other in another lifetime. With my goal to turn my legal nurse consulting business from my part-time venture into a full-time business, I concluded, “I’ve got it all figured out. I know exactly what attorneys want and this is going to be easy.” Boy, I could not have been more wrong.
Just about every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant owns a cell phone and some lucky CLNC® consultants even own iPhones® or Droid® phones. More and more of you are purchasing laptop computers for your legal nurse consulting businesses and I’ve even run into a few Certified Legal Nurse Consultants traveling with an iPad®. What’s the common thread here? At one time or another, one of these fellow CLNC® travelers will put down their precious device and walk away from it. It’s not a matter of “if,” it’s a matter of “when.” It may be at an airport security checkpoint, on an airplane, at a legal conference or even in a restroom.
Other than buying a leash, tether or lanyard for your phone or laptop, what can you do? Easy, get yourself a Brother Home and Office Labeler. At just under $20, this will allow you to print labels of varying sizes. Simply put your name and phone number (Not your mobile number if it’s on your mobile phone – Duh!), maybe your office address (never your home) plus the phrase “Reward for Safe Return” on a label.
Tammie Clarke-Heller RN, BSN, CLNC dropped by our CLNC® Certification Program for the post-exam reception in Philly to share her success story with me and the new Certified Legal Nurse Consultant graduates.
In this video she shares how saying “Yes!” to a single opportunity jumpstarted her CLNC® business.
Congratulations Tammie!
Success Is Inside!
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*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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