What do exercise and being a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant have in common? Lots. Both require patients (no pun intended), rather patience, both are rewarding and both produce results. Let us analogize a bit more.
Whether you exercise every day, every week or one a year, you must have patience with yourself. Some days you can zip through a thirty minute circuit training session and other times, when you are looking through a medical record, it takes patience to figure out what was going on. Either way, you need to be kind to yourself and realize you can do it. You have the training, both as a nurse and PLNC. Simply apply your knowledge to the immediate situation.
Life has a way of rewarding you for a job well done. Maybe you lost a pound, or two, with your new exercise regimen. Maybe you found that “needle in a haystack” in a medical chart. Life’s rewards come in all different sizes.
You will find, if you expend more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. Similarly, if you review more medical records, you will become more proficient and could see more medical-legal cases coming your way.
Next time you go to the gym, think patience, rewards and results. And, the next medical record you review in your Professional Legal Nurse Consulting practice, think patients, reward and results. Sound similar? They are.
