As a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC), how can you help in Mediation or Arbitration? And, what do those terms actually mean? Mediation and Arbitration are... The post How Professional Legal Nurse Consultants Can Assist Attorneys in Mediation or Arbitration appeared first on JurexNurse.com ..read more

At the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) conference in Chicago where Elizabeth Rudolph provided the presentation “Surefire Documentation Techniques: What Every School Nurse Needs To Know”, NASN included the wonderful organization Asthma and Allergy Foundation to host a special project for attendees in a reception to compile teddy bears and information about childhood asthma in backpacks. We all had fun putting together kits which contained valuable educational resources for the family, fun books and activities for the child, and essential asthma equipment for emergencies. Kits packe ..read more

Do you know your personality traits? Did you know these four personality traits often define a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC)? Inquisitive, compassionate, motivated, and adaptable. Let’s break these down and apply them to legal nurse consultant practice. Inquisitive. If you’re curious or just want to find out the meaning of something, you have a skill to be a PLNC. Nurses who become PLNCs are often considered analytical. They want to get “to the bottom” of something. They’re willing to look something up on their mobile phones or computer. They find it interesting to know the answe ..read more

What’s your goal? For the Plaintiff: To identify the TIMELINE of events so you know what was done and not done for the patient that caused harm. For the Defendant Nurse: Same thing. Your CHRONOLOGY is a unit of time. When the events happened and by whom. As the Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC) assigned to reveiw the medical records, you are either asked to create a chronology or find it would be helpful to organize what went on with the patient. Either way, creating a chronology will help you understand the facts. Here’s a summary of what how to create your chronology: Rec ..read more

You are talented! Don’t forget that. You can use your Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC) skills in LOTS of different ways. The most common way is to assist attorneys in what’s called the “pre-suit stage”. This is where trial lawyers have PLNCs review medical records and give their opinions. It’s good to know that no matter where you live, your ability to review medical records and give your opinion is essential. Whether you’re reviewing the medical records for the individual suing or the person or entity getting sued, you’ll get to use your know-how. Pre-Suit Stage Let’s look at the d ..read more

Ever wondered what trial attorneys spend their work time on daily? Are they really billing their clients every minute of every workday? Have you thought about how you can help an attorney and get paid for it? Regardless, whether the attorney is working for the person suing (the Plaintiff) or the person getting sued (the Defendant), attorneys work on common tasks. Interesting, let’s discuss attorney’s tasks and how you, as the PLNC, can assist and EARN. Five Daily Attorney Tasks and How A PLNC Can Help1. Attorneys must COMMUNICATE with their clients. Let’s face it, attorneys get busy, just lik ..read more

WATCH the video whether you already ARE a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC) OR are considering it. For those who would rather read it than watch it, here’s the transcript: Transcript of VideoNurses, do you feel your career has plateaued? Or might even be stuck in a rut? What if there was a way to substantially increase your income, while using your nursing knowledge for a good cause? That’s the path you could take as a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant. As a PLNC, you assist attorneys on a range of cases that require knowledge of nursing care. You can work in the comfort of your ow ..read more

Your attorney-client has provided a link to the medical records of three different providers of the patient. Your assignment: Review the medical records, provide a summary, and give your nursing opinion. You’re going to get paid handsomely for it, but how do you keep track of your time spent on the case? Attorneys, usually defense attorneys, used to keep a notepad next to them and whenever they performed a task, they’d write it down on “time slips”. They’d include the date, time it took, and short description. Fast forward to the digital era and attorneys keep “time” electronically. While tha ..read more

Be prepared to handle a lot of money in your job as a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant. Start off right with a good accounting system and you’ll never have to worry. You don’t want to get yourself into a bind trying to piece together how much you billed and when. Worse yet, is trying to figure out how much you actually collected. The Tax Man Cometh so be sure you’re in a good position from the start. Or if you’ve already started, clean up your accounting from here going forward by following these three methods.  Three methods to keep your accounting on track 1. Use a cash versus accru ..read more

You want to get PAID for the medical records you review. Here’s your Professional Legal Nurse Consultant primer on correctly billing your attorney-client so you earn the maximum. No more guesswork. No estimating. Follow these steps to make it easy for you and your attorney when it comes to billing. The big difference between billable and nonbillable work for Legal Nurse Consultants As a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant, your work is almost exclusively “billable” work. This means you’ll earn money for the legal nurse consultant services you provide. “Nonbillable” work, on the other hand, is ..read more