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13Feb2013

The Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Revival Plan: Eight Ways Stressed Out Nurses Can Revive and Renew − Mind, Body and Soul

You’re a nurse, which means you work yourself to the bone for ever-diminishing returns, thanks to meager pay raises and the rising cost of everything from gas to food to health insurance. Meanwhile, you serve as family nurse, cook, maid, shrink, tutor and handyman at home…plus when life’s little “emergencies” crop up − a broken water heater, a toothache, a parent-teacher conference to discuss your son’s recent homework boycott − well, those land on your plate too. No wonder you feel you’re one permission slip away from a complete breakdown!

7Nov2012

You Need to be on the Outside of Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business to See Inside

I’ve been in business for 30 years and think of myself as a CEO who is tuned-in. But occasionally I am reminded that the view from the inside is not always crystal clear. The mind is an amazing instrument, but if you’re not careful, it can lead you astray and into bad decisions. The solution: get as much outside perspective as you can on your CLNC business.

21Aug2012

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Legal Nurse Consultants – Put a Timer On It with Timer-Tab.com

If you’re at all like me, or maybe even more like me than I am myself, you tend to put your head down and work until you’re done and sometimes even longer. Nurses are used to working without breaks of any kind – lunch, restroom, water, etc. – and they carry this habit over into their legal nurse consulting businesses with pride and passion.

24May2012

What Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Don’t Do, Ever, and Why

What you don’t do is just as important for your CLNC success as what you do. I asked the CLNC Pros to comment what they choose not to do in their CLNC businesses and why.

3May2012

Distracted Doctoring Creates Increased Demand for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

Wired magazine has coined the term “distracted doctoring” to describe physicians who use laptops, smartphones and tablets during surgery. While we all know that the use of devices is not isolated to the OR department, it is still shocking to imagine that this is happening, especially in a so-called sterile environment.

13Oct2011

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously?

One of my favorite quotes by Shinichi Suzuki states: “What we’re doing here is so important we’d better not take it too seriously!” I think CLNC® consultants excel at this in part because of our background in nursing. As nurses, we deal in serious subjects: death, disease and dismemberment – just to name the fun parts of the job. Then there are the short staffing and floating issues, arrogant doctors and administrators who are out of touch.

27Jan2011

Should the Government Stay Out of Drug Development? Read the Opinions of Nurses and Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

The government recently announced that it would fund a billion-dollar government-run drug development center to help create new drugs. The “National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences” will be tasked with creating new drugs and, according to the Director of the NIH, “any project that reaches the point of commercial appeal would be moved out of the academic support line and into the private sector.”

16Sep2010

Add the Right Tools to Be a Flying Legal Nurse Consultant

Unlike most legal nurse consultants, I’m on the road about 20 weeks a year and that means that I’m on a minimum of 40 flights a year – and it’s usually a lot more counting short hops, vacations, family visits and our CLNC® Certification Seminars across the country. Yes, I do have Gold frequent flyer status on Continental, but all that guarantees me is early boarding and sitting near the front of the plane behind the Platinum and Million-Mile members. I’m close enough to see them up in first class sipping champagne, eating lobster thermidor and generally cavorting about in a carefree manner, at least until the flight attendant pulls the velvet curtain that separates “us” from “them.” I don’t get upgraded to first class as often as I’d like to.

1Sep2010

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Share Their Successes with Exhibiting at Legal Conferences

Exhibiting is a cost-effective way to get in front of a large number of attorneys in a very short time. I asked four Certified Legal Nurse Consultants to share the role that exhibiting plays in their marketing plans.

24Aug2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Zombie Alert: Warn Your Legal Nurse Consulting Colleagues

We get a lot of email here at LegalNurse.com. I know Vickie’s blogged about the quality of the email. While most of the Institute’s email is legitimate and comes from Certified Legal Nurse Consultants seeking mentoring or from nurses seeking new careers as Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, some is from the good and most trusted friends we’ve never met asking us to help transfer a 3-million dollar inheritance out of some small African nation. We have a pretty strong spam filter but we still get a small portion of harmless “spam” promoting whatever someone thinks we need – machine tools from China, cheap pharmaceuticals or proposed business relationships. Whatever it contains, as with all email, we’ve got to slog through it, answering and deleting until the email box is empty (it never is).

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