Nurses asked me to create a video to tell them why I created JurexNurse.com. Thank you for asking. I’m honored to it.
In 2006, I founded JurexNurse.com so that legal nurse consultant certification could be both comprehensive AND affordable. As an attorney, I have handled hundreds of legal matters where there was a need for properly trained and certified legal nurse consultants. I answered that need by creating the Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC) Certification course.
I must first back up and tell you WHY I became a Registered Nurse (RN). When I was 15 years old, my mother was in a car accident. After two months of hospitalization she passed away. It’s because of this experience that I chose the nursing profession. At Vanderbilt University, I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and I immediately started practicing pediatric nursing. From there, I went into psychiatric-mental health nursing.
After getting my Master of Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt University, I taught pediatric nursing as well as psychiatric-mental health nursing prior to entering law school.
At Vanderbilt Law School, my goal was to combine my nursing and legal background to help nurses reduce their liability. Having accomplished that goal defending nurses in medical and nursing malpractice cases, I joined Johnnie Cochran at The Cochran Firm – Memphis (now called Morgan & Morgan) until his death.
As an attorney, I founded JurexNurse.com because I saw a huge need for nurses to be properly trained and certified as Professional Legal Nurse Consultants (PLNC). JurexNurse.com was founded on the mission (below) we still hold today.
Mission
The mission of Jurex is to provide high-quality, flexible, and affordable certification training to nurses to allow them to assist attorneys in medical-legal cases. It is our goal to train each nurse to be a professional, dependable, and valuable part of the legal team. Through certification and ongoing training, we seek to keep nurses on the cutting edge of developments in the medical-legal field.
Giving back to the nursing community is IMPORTANT to me! Through volunteering during this pandemic to helping with the pro bono legal needs of individuals, this is my way of saying thank you for the opportunities that nursing and the law have provided to me.
P.S. If you’d like to become a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC), go here.
