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Writing for Attorneys – This is Not Academia
Many legal nurse consultants have college degrees and recall laboring over term papers. Writing for attorneys is different from academic writing in several ways. (Learn how to WOW your clients with our full-day webinar intensive, “Polish Your Writing Skills“.) Why writing for attorneys is different 1. Academic writing is heavily cited. The more footnotes, the…
Read More3 Tips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 4
If you are a legal nurse consultants, you’ll benefit from being able to write persuasive and analytical reports. Attorneys count on you to be able to clear express your opinion. Follow these tips for persuasive legal nurse consulting writing. Part 3 of this blog post series described ways to break up content. This concluding blog…
Read MoreTips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 3
Legal nurse consultants: do you want to know how to write better advertising and marketing copy for your legal nurse consulting business, whether you are writing a letter, email, blog post, website content, or brochure? How can you create persuasive legal nurse writing? Part 2 of this blog post series covered 3 tips: Split long…
Read More3 Tips for Persuasive Legal Nurse Consulting Writing Part 2
Learn how to keep your legal nurse consulting reports interesting and persuasive. To find out how to improve your copywriting skills, follow these tips. Part 1 covered 3 tips: Vary sentence length, cut out the fluff and eliminate prepositions. Here are the next 3 tips. Split Long Sentences If you find yourself writing extremely long…
Read More3 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 MoreAvoid guff in your marketing materials
Guff is the language of the bureaucrat. It is pompous, needlessly complex, and obscures understanding. The person who writes in guff uses long sentences, filled with stiff language, and technical terms. Here is an example of guff from a legal nurse consultant’s website: “Screening Medical Cases For Merit – I will document the departure from…
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…
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