Personality Traits of a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant: What’s Yours?
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
1M ago
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
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Create a Chronology in Professional Legal Nurse Consultant Practice
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
2M ago
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
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How a Legal Nurse Consultant Can Help an Attorney BEFORE a Lawsuit is Filed
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
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
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A Day in the Life of a Trial Attorney: How a PLNC Can Help
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
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
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How to Get Certified as a PLNC: What You Need to Know
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
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
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Keep Track of Your Legal Nurse Consultant TIME Spent Reviewing Records
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
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
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How To Keep Track of Your Money in Your PLNC Business
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
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
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The 6-Minute Billable Hour: How Legal Nurse Consultants Bill Their Attorney-Clients
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
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
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Do You Have the Personality To Be A Legal Nurse Consultant?
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
What type of personality do you have? It’s not a question of knowing yourself well, but well enough. We each have different personality temperaments and we use those traits in our lives and in our jobs. You want to understand your personality temperament. What’s your core personality? Knowing this will unlock your potential and your self-awareness. Just like there’s more than one nursing practice area, there’re many types of personalities that thrive in life and in careers. Look around in your current job. Think about the people you interact with. What types of personalities do you see?  ..read more
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4 EASY Steps to MOTIVATE Yourself In Your Nursing Career!
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by Elizabeth Rudolph
9M ago
Motivation. What do you think of when you hear this word? Energy. Drive. Success. Yes, all of these. Let’s talk about motivating yourself in your nursing career to achieve more, and therefore, to earn more money, more accolades, and more time for the things in life you want. Like having extra spending money, getting to go on that long-awaited vacation, buying that pricey pair of shoes you’ve been eyeing. How do you get from where you are in your current nursing job to where you want to be in your career? Breaking down the four steps of motivation success1. Create your goals. Have you said any ..read more
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