52 LNC Writing Tips
3 Tips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 1
Whether this is new material or simply a refresher, you’ll be able to write better advertising and marketing copy for your legal nurse consulting business, no matter whether you are writing a letter, email, blog post, website content, or brochure. As a side benefit, if you get really good at this skill, you might consider…
Read MoreExpert Witnesses: Supporting Your Nursing Opinion
Expert witnesses need to provide an attorney with evidence to support their opinions. I am an independent legal nurse consultant with over a decade of experience who has reviewed dozens of expert cases and thousands of “behind the scenes” cases. I have provided deposition and trial testimony. Communicating this evidence of your opinion can be…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultants: Are You Writing in Geek?
Are you writing in geek? What do I mean? Imagine you are an attorney who has hired a legal nurse consultant to summarize and analyze complex obstetrical medical records. You don’t understand medical terminology and you know that the information in the record is crucial to understanding the case. You give the records to the…
Read MoreLong Term Care Primer – Specialty Documents
Long term care is a highly litigated area of health care. As a legal nurse consultant (LNC) without a clinical background in long term care, I had to educate myself on this specialty. The nursing tasks were familiar but the chart was not. As I worked on more of these cases, I came to rely…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultants: Avoid These Commonly Misused Word Traps
I’ve recently come across several commonly misused word traps, just in the last week. Legal nurse consultants may avoid embarrassing errors by reviewing these commonly misused and misspelled words. Peak versus Pique “This really peaks my curiosity.” Right or wrong? The correct spelling should be pique, a French word from “a prick, irritation.” As a…
Read MoreTop 3 Grammatical Errors
Avoid these top 3 grammatical errors if you want to present yourself as a skilled legal nurse consultant writer. Use of the apostrophe Last week I was setting up books on a table for a book sale. One of the books I came across was called “Cave of the Bat’s”. I was horrified, not by…
Read MoreWhy Medical Records can be Defective
Medical records can be defective. We know that as legal nurse consultants. The analysis of cases involving medical issues rests heavily on being able to extract meaningful information from medical records. Why are some electronic medical records inherently defective? Medical record software program defects One reason why medical records can be defective is an inadequate…
Read MoreWhy writing a report is based on your reader
Whenever you sit down to prepare a report, think about your audience. Who is going to read this report? What are his or her needs, level of understanding of medicine, and objectives? Writing a report is based on the needs of your reader – address each of these points. Ask yourself, “What do I want…
Read MoreReporting expert witness opinions
You’ve gotten a case as a nursing expert witness. Now what? What are your expert witness opinions? Forming expert witness opinions Read all of the pertinent documents before you offer an opinion. It is rare that a nursing expert witness has to read every page of a medical record, and most attorneys would not be…
Read MoreUsing lists in legal nurse consulting reports
Lists improve the readability of legal nurse consulting report. They make it easy to cluster information together in a format that can be quickly scanned. Lists are useful for breaking up a long sentence into a more reader friendly format. They break up the style and flow of a report and create a more interesting…
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