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9Jun2010

Are You Providing Service or Anticipating Service as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant?

I’ve stayed in a lot of hotels during my travels. Everything from Ramadas to Mandarin Orientals with more than a few Hiltons, Hyatts, Marriotts and the occasional Peninsula in between. As a result I’ve become quite jaded concerning hotel services. On a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I was stunned by the service at our hotel, the Four Seasons. The staff did much more than just meet requests, they seemed to anticipate every need. It started with the bellman who offered to find additional luggage stands. Then it was the waiter who, after I asked for the check and told him we needed to get to the airport, he offered to call a cab for us.

8Jun2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: How Open Do You Keep Your Windows Wide Open?

Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant running a variation of Windows probably has at least one program that, instead of opening up to a full-screen view, pops up in a smaller window, a portion of a window or is just a quarter of its normal size. You then click it to full-size, do your work and when you’re done, close the program. Next time you open it that same day, it comes up full-size, or not. The next time you open it after a restart of your computer, it opens full-size, or not. Therein lies the rub, it’s not consistent, at least not as consistent as your other Windows programs.

1Jun2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Should All Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Have an Email Business Card?

Microsoft Outlook is probably the most widely used and accepted email client throughout the U.S. Many law firms choose Outlook for their attorneys’ email clients. If you’re a CLNC consultant and Outlook is your own email client, you have a unique opportunity to create what is known as a vCard for your legal nurse consulting business.

27May2010

Are You Practicing Legal Nurse Consulting Mindfulness?

I’ve told you about the bamboo that highlights my morning tea time. Lately there’s been a pair of northern cardinals living in the bougainvillea growing outside my living room windows. They’re a matched set, a male and female, and whenever they appear, they bring a joyful mindfulness to my day, reminding me that life is good. I used to think they mate for life (like me) but found out that it’s more likely just for one season. I also learned that during the wooing process the male will not only sing to the female, but he’ll bring her seeds and feed them to her beak-to-beak. I’m still waiting to see that action (and I don’t mean from Tom).

26May2010

Social Media and Subcontracting for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

Recently a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant contacted the Institute and told us about a subcontractor she’d hired. After completing the project, the subcontractor proceeded to list herself on several different social media sites as being associated with the contracting CLNC consultant. The subcontractor then used the contracting CLNC consultant’s “LinkedIn” profile and network to contact other parties announcing her association with the contracting CLNC consultant and marketing her availability to subcontract.

25May2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Finally – A Hotel Business Center Even Mac-Using Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Can Love!

I’m not a Mac user. I do think they’re wonderful computers but like anyone who likes a challenge, I live in a Microsoft Windows world. I’ve always wondered how Mac users who travel get along in a predominately Windows world? After all, most hotel business centers usually have low-end, Windows-based desktop computers (to keep costs down). What happens to Mac users? Do they have to be bilingual and speak two computing languages? Or, is this Windows predominance what forces them to carry an Apple laptop with them every time they leave home (like one of our CLNC Mentors who carries her slick Mac with her on every road trip we make)?

20May2010

Turn Off the TV and Turn On Your Legal Nurse Consulting Career

I’ve got a confession to make. I’m not hooked on Lost. I don’t know what “frack” means and I’ve never watched American Idol. I used to keep my television in my closet (it was a 12″ black and white) and it wasn’t out of shame – I just didn’t watch TV. Even though we now have one of those state-of-the-art flat screen, surround-sound systems (ask Tom for details), I still don’t watch TV. I will also confess there are a couple of exceptions. I set aside an evening for each of the Grammys, Golden Globes, Super Bowl (for Tom) and the Academy Awards as sacrosanct (don’t call me, I won’t answer). But the other 361 days of the year, my TV is off. My Google homepage tells me the news headlines and Tom keeps me in the loop. If the world was going to come to an end, my executive team would notify me and ask me to release the Institute employees early so they can go home and prepare (being on the Gulf Coast, I’ve even gotten tsunami warnings). In other words, TV doesn’t play a role in my life – it’s not an early warning system and it’s not a distraction.

19May2010

CLNC® Success Story: Don’t Wait to Start Your Business as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant

What are you waiting for before you start your career and business as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant? In this video Doris Huegel, RN, CLNC shares that after attending the CLNC 6-Day Certification Program, she didn’t even wait to unpack her bags before marketing herself to an attorney-prospect near her hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Her enthusiasm and initiative secured that first case for her. Congratulations Doris for going for it.

18May2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Do Fish Need Bicycles and Do Docked Laptops Need Their Batteries?

I’ve blogged about ways to extend the life of the battery in that laptop you’ve purchased for your legal nurse consulting business. I’ve also blogged about the need for every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant to have an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) on every computer and expensive electronic device in your home. I’ve even discussed the ways that a laptop dock can extend your workspace into multiple monitors and keep you from having to constantly plug and unplug peripheral equipment.

12May2010

Florence Nightingale 1861 Letters on Exhibit at 2010 National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC®) Conference

Happy International Nurses Day! And, happy birthday to Florence Nightingale – today, May 12, is her birthday. She laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world. The annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.

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