Legal Nurse Consulting Provides a New Career Opportunity for RNs
What Is a Legal Nurse Consultant?A legal nurse consultant is a registered nurse who uses existing expertise as a healthcare professional plus specialized training to consult on medical-related cases at fees of $100-$150 per hour. Few attorneys know h...

Tort Reform – More Opportunities for the Legal Nurse Consultant
Does tort reform limit opportunities for legal nurse consultants? Absolutely not. As the pioneer in the field of legal nurse consulting, I have watched this profession grow and flourish during the last 21 years. Throughout that time many states have ...

Silent Epidemic More Devastating Than 9/11
As we Americans mourn the anniversary of 9/11 and the 2,973 people who were murdered on that day 5 years ago, an even more insidious homeland terror is scourging our nation. Every year in this country, more than 98,000* people die from an attack taki...

Why Are Nurses Leaving Clinical Nursing? Not Because of ER!
A couple of years ago, Baltimore's Center for Nursing Advocacy started a letter-writing campaign against NBC and the producers of ER. This group was protesting the episode where a central character, nurse Abby Lockhart (actress Maura Tierney), chucke...

How to Focus on the One Big Thing
This one thing I do." – Philippians 3:13How does a busy and successful business owner cope with the mounting demands and pressures of being an entrepreneur? The biblical strategy above makes all the difference for me.Don't get me wrong. I'm great at ...

How to Break the Feel-Good Addiction to Enhance Your Career
How does a busy professional like yourself cope with the mounting demands and pressures of career and everyday life and still achieve success? Whether you are a beginner just starting your career or a tenured executive with many years of success, the...

It Is Not Why Nurses Are Leaving - It Is Where They Are Going
A recent American Nursing Association (ANA) poll indicates that 18.8 percent of nurses in the U.S. do not work in nursing. A study by the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research reveals that 22.7 percent of nurses plan to leave their hospital ...

Demand for Legal Nurse Consultants at All-Time High
What Is a Legal Nurse Consultant?A legal nurse consultant is a registered nurse who uses existing expertise as a healthcare professional plus specialized training to consult on medical-related cases at fees of $100-$150/hour. Few attorneys know how t...

Can You Remove Your Own Burrs?
On a trip to Africa I went hiking with my friend, Colin, on his ranch in Kenya. The trail varied between rock and brush. Colin's dog, Uzuri, came with us, sometimes running ahead of us, sometimes following behind, but almost never on the trail. Well ...

12 Things Nursing Taught Me About Owning a Business
Have you ever wondered whether you're cut out to be an entrepreneur? Nurses sometimes tell me they aren't sure if their nursing career has prepared them to start and succeed in their own legal nurse consultant practice. Yet even the most routine nurs...

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