It’s summer vacation time and hopefully every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is taking a break from their legal nurse consulting business and is out there having fun and sharing their photos on social media. But, there is one privacy worry that everyone, CLNC consultants included, should have and it’s one that many people rarely think about.
Recently a number of Australian iPhone users woke up to find that their iPhones had been taken over by some miscreant. The phone was locked with a passcode placed on the screens as well as a ransom demand.
That’s an easy question to answer – as long as you’re on Windows® 7 or above or the Mac® iOS. Meet either of those two criteria and the answer is any of them. Chrome®, Firefox®, Safari® and even Internet Explorer® are all terrific.
Writing this blog I have to admit that I am partial to the ScanSnap series of document scanners. On my desk I have both a flatbed scanner and a ScanSnap s1500. I use the flatbed scanner for photographs and large-scale documents. However, you have to manually place each page face-down so it’s time consuming but renders high-quality scans. I use the ScanSnap for receipts and other documents. The amazing thing about the ScanSnap is that any CLNC consultant can dump a 30+ page document into it, push the scan button and a few minutes later the entire document is scanned and ready to be emailed to an attorney-client.
We’ve all sent, accidently or on purpose, an email that we immediately regretted sending. It may have been an email for your CLNC® business, personal or otherwise. Sometimes we just want to revise our thoughts and other times we just regret those thoughts. But I’ve been asked by many a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant whether or not it’s possible to recall or un-send an email. As my CLNC amigos know, in the tech world the answer is always an unequivocal maybe.
Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant loves a GWP – that’s a “gift with purchase” – as if you didn’t know. One of my favorite things about Vickie getting a GWP is that I get the goofy little pouches that were previously filled with goodies.
I love technology and I love that fact that it changes constantly. I bemoan the fact that every leap forward with one device or technology often means a leap backward in another. But that’s also known as the learning curve. The more things change the better things will be – or so I believe. That being said, attorneys and CLNC consultants need a good resource to keep themselves ahead, or at least aware, of the latest advances in technology that could affect their law or legal nurse consulting practices.
All Certified Legal Nurse Consultants know that Microsoft’s support for Windows XP has XPired. This means that Microsoft will no longer issue bug fixes or updated protection from “exploits” that fiends will (and have) most certainly develop. Does this make XP inherently unsafe? Not necessarily. As I mentioned before, so long as you STOP USING Internet Explorer as your web browser, you can surf the web fairly safely with either Google’s Chrome browser or Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
We all wear earbuds of some sort. There are the sleek white Apple® ones you use when talking on your iPhone®. There are the tight-fitting ones CLNC® consultants use when listening to music on their iPods® while exercising, riding their bikes or working on their legal nurse consulting business. There are the ones Certified Legal Nurse Consultants wear while relaxing and watching movies on their tablets. And then there’s the funky rubbery one on our Bluetooth® headsets (that makes me look like a Borg while I’m in the grocery store) and the strangely shaped ones on the Bose® Quiet-Comfort silencers that help preserve my sanity on airplanes.
Whatever sort of earbuds you have, they all have one thing in common. They all get dirty. I can’t gross out a nurse by describing earwax because nurses spend much of their days up to their elbows in worse. But I will ask every CLNC consultant to pull your earbuds out of your purse, pocket or ears and inspect them. Yep, they’re probably clogged up with something best left to your imagination (not your tastebuds).
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants have long used Microsoft® Word as their word-processing program of choice. Word has advantages and disadvantages, but its biggest advantage (to me) is its ability to quickly and easily create, insert and edit tables.
Tables are indispensable for CLNC consultants creating reports for attorney-clients. A landscape printed table has all sorts of room for creating timelines, inserting dates, players/parties and adherences to, and deviations from, the standard of care – along with pithy analysis from the CLNC consultant working up the case. Tables, if used correctly, also allow you to quickly sort and resort by a particular cell – it may be time, date or player – so long as you’re consistent in your formatting of the text you’ll be sorting by.
There’s a couple of ways to learn to work with tables – you can learn it the way I did, which was the hard way, through trial and error, taking lots of time and making lots of mistakes. Or you can do it the easy way which involves taking a tutorial. I recommend the easy way (it’s fast too). Once you’ve learned how to use tables you’ll find myriad ways to put them into use for your CLNC business.
*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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