Do you know what you’re worth? As a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC), you’ll gain valuable skills to enhance your nursing license. This means you could EARN MORE by combining your nursing skills with your certification as a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC).
Nine Skills You’ll Gain with your PLNC Certification
1. Income-Generating Medical Record Review Skills: One of the most essential tools in your toolkit is your ability to effectively review medical records and give your opinion. You’re a nurse. You know the nursing standard of care. Apply it to the facts in the medical record.
2. Resume Building Skills: Your nursing experience should be prominently displayed on your resume. Attorneys review your resume to decide whether or not to employ your PLNC services. Your resume is ever evolving, so add or subtract items over time to put your best foot forward.
3. Critical Analytical Skills: When you’re reading a medical record, ask yourself: Did this happen the way it’s recorded in the medical record? Should the outcome have been different? Did the nurse comply with the standard of care? What would I have done in the same situation?
4. Effective Marketing Skills: You’ll want to be on social media. No matter what social platforms you use, be consistent. You want to be front and center in the minds of attorney-clients.
5. Usable Testifying Skills (if you decide you want to testify): It’s always good to learn testifying skills, whether or not you ever use them. Testifying skills can help you better review medical records because then you’ll know how facts are presented at a deposition, trial, or mediation.
6. Efficient Time Management Skills: Some medical records are reviewable in a short amount of time, some longer. Mastery of time management skills is useful in all aspects of your life. The more you review medical records, the faster you become.
7. Practical Chronology Creation Skills: Medical records with lots of facts are best digested by creating a timeline, known as a chronology. From there, you’ll create a report of your findings.
8. Powerful Money Management Skills: As you earn more and more money as a PLNC, you’ll put that money to work for you. Whether you deposit it into a bank account, money market fund, or other investment opportunities, you’ll develop and hone your money earning and money savings skills. This skill you’ll have for a lifetime!
9. Desirable People Skills: As a PLNC, communicating with others is critical. The people skills you’ll refine include your ability to listen, communicate, problem-solve, and relate to others. Even your sense of humor will improve!
Isn’t this enough to convince you of your self-worth as a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant? You have what it takes, now do it.
P.S. Which of these nine skills is most important to you? Comment below.
