The Consequences of Overlooking Writing Skills:
Losing money, clients, and cases.
Damaging the trust people have in you and your LNC business.
Wasting time fixing mistakes.
If you don't focus on improving your writing, it becomes more challenging. Some LNCs justify mistakes, saying:
- Everyone has typos
- Everyone uses English poorly
- No one cares if I misspell words
But that's not true.
Your proficiency in English is how people judge you, and if it's lacking, clients may choose another LNC for their cases.
Nurturing Writing Expertise:
When I was in high school, my English teacher gave me back papers marked up in red. She saw my talent and encouraged me to do better. Wanting to please her, I tried harder. Nursing school, and my undergraduate and graduate school programs gave me more experience to improve my writing skills.
A Journey of Achievement:
After earning my masters degree in nursing, I worked with 2 other hospital nursing educators to write a book that student nurses around the world appreciated. And that first book(shown to the left in a pile of some of my books) led to me becoming an expert witness, and founding a highly successful LNC business helping attorneys with medical cases.
From Words to Authority:
My first coauthored book published in 1986 led to dozens of books.
On the strength of that first book, I became an expert witness reviewing medical surgical cases – for the next 20 years. I also got invitations to speak, consult, coach and create online courses. My multimillion-dollar legal nurse consulting company resulted from my authority and credibility as an expert, author – and LNC with writing skills.
Mastering the Craft:
I mastered blogging, creating opt in reports, and writing effective email sequences, book chapters, and compelling sales copy for my websites. Your learning always continues. Every week, I invest in my knowledge by staying on top of business writing techniques.
Being a great writer is not just about writing books. You may never want to write a book, but as an LNC, you do want to gain visibility and credibility through blogging, writing articles or white papers, reaching people with your sales copy, emails, or book chapters. And of course, you want your LNC reports to be polished.
Finally, it’s Your Turn!
Your Writing Toolkit: Benefits in the Legal Nurse Business Writing Circle
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After completing a diploma school of nursing, Pat Iyer MSN RN LNCC earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She has extensive clinical experience as a medical surgical nurse and entered the legal nurse consulting field in 1987 as a liability nursing expert witness. Over the past 35 + years, she has crafted her skill as an LNC.
As a Past President of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, she served the profession and expanded her authority and network. She’s written thousands of expert witness and LNC reports, and proofread thousands of reports for her experts for medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, toxic tort, criminal and other kinds of cases. A prolific author, Pat has written books that were either published by traditional publishers or self-published.
