Nurses often ask how they can get started in legal nurse consulting.  In fact, I am scheduled to hold an informational call with an interested nurse this week.  If you are one of those who is interested in this field and want to know more, I have just the thing for you.  Best of all it’s FREE!

Thursday, February 17 from 2-3pm CST
Speakers: AALNC Board of Directors
Topic/Title: So You Want to be a Legal Nurse Consultant? The Real World: Fact or Fiction
Price: FREE!
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My friend Pat Iyer, a legal nurse consultant in Flemington, New Jersey, struggled to make her practice successful. She wondered where the next client was going to come from. She worried about making ends meet. And then she cracked the code. She learned how to create outstanding work products that keep attorneys returning with case after case. Pat is past president of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, and chief editor of the core curriculum of legal nurse consulting: Principles and Practices of Legal Nurse Consulting, Second …

Lawyers USA hosted this excellent and comprehensive article explaining how nurses assist in litigation support.  Mindy Cohen, past president of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC), was quoted and shared several examples of the types of cases for which we consult and services we nurses provide.
James Reed, a plaintiff’s attorney from New York, shares several examples of services he has had nurses provide in his case load.  He also provides information regarding how to save money by utilizing nurses for medical research, teaching, and review.
This is an excellent …

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Abbie Citron, a Legal Nurse Consultant and friend of mine, is definitely celebrating this year.  She recently assisted an attorney in a Suffolk County Supreme Court malpractice suit against two Harvard physicians.  They were accused of malpractice after a three year old boy died.  The young boy was born with a heart defect, called Tetralogy of Fallot, a condition that is usually treatable.  However, after several cardiac catherizations, something was definitely awry.  The young child had a seizure and was later found to have a small piece …