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Dropped During Transfer
The nursing assistants dropped during transfer a demented patient. They used a hydraulic lift while getting her into a wheelchair. There was a sickening thud as a patient hit the floor. Afraid they would lose their jobs, the aides did not report the incident. The next day, the patient had bruises. The daughter came into…
Read More5 Tips for the LNC for Keeping Attorney Clients
Keeping attorney clients is a crucial issue for legal nurse consultants. Legal nurse consultants make one sale out of twenty prospective client contacts. That means that for two contacts you’d have to meet forty contacts, or potential clients. That is a bit daunting. You have to be willing to go to meetings, make calls, go…
Read MoreCopying and Pasting in Medical Records: How to Recognize It
As a legal nurse consultant, you are in an ideal position to detect copying and pasting in medical records. This is what you might see: A staff nurse copies the note she wrote the previous day. Or she copies the note written by the previous shift. The attending physician copies a progress note he wrote…
Read MoreLegal Nurse Consultant’s Role in Preparing Demonstrative Evidence
Nurses think visually, a skill that helps legal nurse consultant working with attorneys in preparing demonstrative evidence. How do you use this skill with litigation? Although demonstrative evidence usually refers to exhibits created for use with mediations or trials, it can be used in reports or settlement brochures as well. Preparing Demonstrative Evidence: Begin with…
Read MoreShould You Add a New LNC Service?
Should you offer attorneys a new LNC service? Should you provide medical illustrations, trial consulting, jury selection guidance, mock trials or more new services? Model for adding a new LNC service This is a model you may use to determine the level of risk and possibility of success for offering new LNC services or products.…
Read More3 Ways to Build Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business
How can you build the foundation for a strong legal nurse consulting business that will carry you forward? Here are 3 tips that helped me grow a successful business. 1. Never stop marketing It is tempting to connect with one or two key clients and get complacent. You are receiving a steady flow of cases.…
Read MoreEmergency Department Medical Records Part 1
Use your legal nurse consulting skills to help attorneys understand emergency department medical records. Here are some of the details in emergency department medical records that affect personal injury cases. Analyzing emergency department medical records • Who first saw the patient? Usually a triage nurse will evaluate the patient before the patient is officially checked…
Read MorePersonal Injury Medical Records – What to Look For
Physician office records may hold the keys for analyzing personal injury cases. These personal injury medical records can make or break a plaintiff’s case. It is crucial that you as the legal nurse consultant are able to read and decipher these records in a personal injury case. Look for these pieces of information. Personal Injury…
Read MoreMissing Medical Records
How do you know as a legal nurse consultant that there are missing medical records? Are the medical records complete? Although a copy of a certified medical record is supposed to be compared by the medical records custodian with the original, it is common for LNCs to detect there are missing medical records. This often…
Read More3 Ways to Pitch Your Value to Attorneys: Medical Records
Anyone can read a medical record. Or can they? If everyone could read medical records, the attorney would not need someone with medical background to assist in understanding the medical records. How do you pitch your value to attorneys about medical record analysis? This is what an LNC offers: the keys to medical record analysis…
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