Thoughts for Success: Success Is the Prize, Not the Goal
When I started my legal nurse consultant business in 1982 my financial goal was to match my nursing salary. I wasn’t chasing success, I was chasing fulfillment in my nursing career.
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Tom’s Tech Tip: Legal Nurse Consultants, Add a Medical Dictionary to Your Firefox Browser
With more and more writing and research tools moving online, I’ve found that the built-in spell-checking dictionary in the Firefox® web browser is usually a powerful tool, except when it’s not (it can’t spell Ziemba, LOL).
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Edward John Phelps
I respect RNs and Certified Legal Nurse Consultants who don’t like to make mistakes. After all, saving lives, doing a superlative legal nurse consultant job or providing stellar service to an attorney-client begins with the intention to not err.
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Are Only as Good as the Attorneys You’re Working With
My attorney-clients have experienced great success with the medical-related cases I worked on as a legal nurse consultant. But I don’t take credit for their success, just for the contributions I’ve made.
Thoughts for Success: You Can’t Avoid the Unknown, So You May as Well Embrace It
I’m always mystified by RNs who are afraid to start even a part-time legal nurse consulting business. I’m not talking about quitting your RN job at the hospital and taking a great leap of faith into the unknown.
Tom’s Tech Tip: Microsoft Word Wildcards for Wild Legal Nurse Consultants
I’ve long used the asterisk wildcard in Microsoft Windows to search for lost documents, photos and more. I simply open up Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) on my computer and type in as much of the name of the document I remember in the search box.
5 Reasons to Market Legal Nurse Consultant Jobs to Attorneys You’re NOT Interested In
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants just starting out often go straight for the legal nurse consultant jobs and attorneys they’re most interested in, such as the top medical malpractice attorneys in their areas.
Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: H.G. Bohn
Procrastination is not always bad. I hear people say, “Finish what you start,” or “You had that new idea, where did you go with it?”
CLNC® Alert: New Changes to the Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System
Staying up to date with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the ever evolving changes that affect the long term care industry is essential for the Certified Legal Nurse Consultant working on long term care cases. On April 27, 2016 the CMS added six new quality measures to the federal website, Nursing Home Compare.
My Most Memorable CLNC® Case: My Legal Nurse Consulting Discovery of a Patient’s Secret Ended This Case
One of my most memorable cases is a legal nurse consultant job involving alleged missed diagnosis of a glioblastoma multiformis (GBM) in an elderly patient. My CLNC role was to screen the case for merit and to submit a written report.
