Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants

Edited by Patricia W. Iyer, Jan Aken, and Kathie W. Condon

344 pages, hardbound

2006, AALNC/CRC Press

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Designed to complement Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices

Being a legal nurse consultant is your calling. You love what you do. You are ready to go into practice for yourself. You have the education, the drive, and the ability – but is that really enough to succeed?

Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants is an invaluable resource that can help you along the way. The text combines the collective wisdom and experience of LNCs who have already built their own thriving practices. These trailblazing professionals reveal the secrets of their successes and the pitfalls they encountered through chapters that illustrate how to:

  • Develop a straightforward, comprehensive business plan
  • Cultivate the precise marketing mix that gets results
  • Engage the right technology for your web site and office needs
  • Effectively manage finances, employees, contractors – and change
  • Build and maintain beneficial client relationships
  • Leverage what you know to become a successful expert witness
  • Deal with that potential minefield known as ethics

While these issues may seem overwhelming, they don’t have to be. Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants is an essential single-source guide that can help you navigate through the details so you can get on with your career!

Table of Contents | About the editors | ForewardAbout the contributors

Table of Contents

1 Getting Started as a Legal Nurse Consultant
Jenny Beerman MN, RN, LNCC and Lynda Watson BSN, RN

2 Essentials of Marketing
Debra Summers BSN, RN, LHRM, LNCC

3 Website Design and Maintenance
Teresa M. Treiger MA, RN, CCM, CPUR

4 Technology and the Office
Patricia Karalow, BA, RN, LNCC

5 Working with Subcontractors
Deborah D’Andrea BSN, BA, RN

6 Working with Employees
Rose Clifford, RN

7 Billing and Collections
Pattie Patterson RN, LNCC, CLCP

8 Ethics and the Legal Nurse Consultant’s Business
Betty Joos MEd, BSN, RN

9 Managing Change
Elena Capella, MSN/MPA, CPHQ, LNCC

10 Client Relationships
Robert Morrison, BSN, RN

11 Business Aspects of Expert Witnessing
Lenora Smith, MSN, RN