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Make Your Nursing Life Prosperous
You want to enrich your life. You want to fulfill your desires and dreams. You are a nurse. You went to nursing school and perhaps now you have become a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant. You work (or have worked) as a nurse. But, you want to round-out your work...
Make Yourself A Better Nurse: Broaden Your Skill Set
Professionally you need, and want, to develop your nursing skills. That’s how you get ahead in life. Start with where you are. You’re a nurse. And you have valuable nursing skills. Those nursing skills, combined with legal and marketing skills, can be easily used in...
Lessons Learned From A Nurse Attorney
I am a nurse and an attorney. I provide lots of presentations on legal issues in nursing. Throughout the years, I have provided well over a thousand presentations to nurses, nursing faculty, nursing students, nurse managers, nurse administrators and all kinds of...
12 Ways To Boost Your Professional Legal Nurse Consulting Visibility
We decided to give you a little something to sweeten your day by posting our top 12 ways to increase your PLNC business visibility, whether it’s online or offline. Here we go: 1. Update your profile listing on the Jurex Expert Directory. Need help? Email us:...
Three Ways To Find Professional Legal Nurse Consultant Jobs
You’re certified now as a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant, but you want work and you want it now. What opportunities are out there for you? Where should you look? How can attorneys find you? These are the questions you want answered. No matter what the economy...
Anatomy of Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Let’s dissect the medical malpractice lawsuit. In some states, it’s now called the Health Care Liability lawsuit. (For example, Tennessee). Any way you slice it, it’s a lawsuit about medical issues potentially gone wrong. Since most cases are brought by attorneys on...
Technology for the Professional Legal Nurse Consultant: How Your New Tablet (iPad, Android, MicroSoft, Asus, etc.) Can Help Your PLNC Business
You got a new tablet for the holidays and you want to use it in your business. First, you might be able to expense it, so check out irs.gov to be sure. Then, you want to put it to work for you. Anything you can do on a laptop or desktop can be done on your tablet....
Make the Best Use of Your Time: A Professional Legal Nurse Consultant’s Guide
Repeat this: “I will not start the day without a plan”. Your plan doesn’t have to be complicated. You want to use the “KISS” method -- “keep it simple, sweetheart”. Every morning, plan to accomplish the most important tasks that day. Your plan will simply be: Tackle...
Q & A with Elizabeth Rudolph, JD, MSN, RN: Founder – Nurse – Attorney of Jurex
Q: I’ve been thinking about getting my Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC) certification and wanted to know how to get my name out there once I take the course. I have a friend who’s a legal nurse and I know she can help me but I still want to know how. A: ...
The Most Common Legal Issue for Nurses
I was providing the presentation for nursing students at Baptist College for Health Sciences and I asked the question: What is the difference between negligence and malpractice? The room initially went silent, then one attendee stated that it had to do with...
Our PLNC Success: Two Nurses Opened Professional Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Practice Together
We are friends. We made up our minds we were going to attend the Professional Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Course that was offered in the Washington, D.C. area. We had looked at getting certified as legal nurses for awhile and decided it was time to do it....
$15M Medical Malpractice Jury Award: Professional Legal Nurse Case Analysis
Whether you’re in Denver or Orlando or any point between, medical malpractice can occur. Everyday medical conditions can take a turn for the worse with resulting bad outcomes. Consider this case*… A thirty-six year old went to the Emergency Department of a Denver...
