• Provides an overview of advanced practice including the scope of Nurse Practitioner practice and prescriptive authority.
• Covers details involved in owning a practice, including advantages and disadvantages, identifying various practice needs, and the legal issues of reimbursement and credentialing.
• Explains business plans in detail, including important information regarding insurance, administration, support, physical space, and technology needs.
• Provides a range of information on alternate types of nurse practitioner businesses.
• Describes HIPAA and its effect on the nurse practitioner practice.
• Includes effective marketing strategies needed to promote a new or existing practice and make it a success.

The Core Curriculum for Legal Nurse Consulting®, Twelfth Edition is written and edited by Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD, with contributions from leading nurse consultants from a variety of practice areas throughout the country. First published by the Institute in 1994, the Core is updated as the legal nurse consulting field evolves and emerges as its own specialty practice of nursing.

In just 40 hours Vickie Milazzo delivers her step-by-step blueprint for legal nurse consulting success. The Core Curriculum for Legal Nurse Consulting® textbook also includes 19 educational modules on DVD, and the CLNC® Certification Exam. It is your university at home with the pioneer of legal nurse consulting. This activity provides 40 contact hours for the nurse.

• Study at your own pace in the comfort of your home or car.
• Review the programs as often as you like to master every detail. Experts say repetition is the key to success.
• You have 6 months to complete the CLNC® Home-Study Certification Program.
• Call the Institute with any questions you have about the CLNC® Certification Program.
Complete your CLNC® Certification by sitting for the CLNC® Certification Exam at the Prometric Testing Center (Sylvan Technology Center) near you. One exam fee is included in the cost of the program.

Contents
Introduction

• Tips on how to study for the CLNC® Certification Exam

• 7 types of legal cases on which you can consult.
• Consult behind the scenes and never spend a day in court.
• 30 specific services you can provide to attorneys.

• The 10 key stages of litigation and your role in each.
• Master over 100 basic legal terms.

• Intentional torts.
• Negligence theory.
• Strict liability.

• Learn how various legal theories affect your role in products liability, toxic torts, work-related injuries and general personal injury cases.
• Understand your role as a CLNC® in each type of cases.

• 4 legal elements you must know to analyze a case.
• Complete your initial screening opinion within 5 hours with our simple-to-use screening form.
• Apply the 11 essentials of effective screening.
• Quickly spot more than 50 types of defensible cases.
• Recognize more than 30 plaintiff alert situations.
• PLUS: Hands-on case evaluation workshop.

• 40 report writing strategies for presenting your opinions professionally and with confidence.
• 70 plaintiff allegations and common defenses.

• Evaluate 8 legal implications of tampering.
• Recognize 15 tampering alert signals.
• Apply 5 tampering detection techniques.

• Use your home computer as a powerful research tool.
• Select and access the best authoritative information from databases, information brokers and the Internet.

• Research 7 required sources for standards of care.
• Use 5 key steps for analyzing policies and procedures.

• Carve a lucrative niche in this exploding litigation field.
• Understand the legal theories of liability and defenses in cases involving managed care organizations (MCOs).

• Assist your attorney-client with 6 methods of discovery.
• Implement 11 guidelines for drafting discovery.

• Learn how to work with a graphics consultant on behalf of the attorney.
• Assist the attorney with applying 10 types of demonstrative evidence to any type of case.

• Master 100 testifying strategies to assist your attorney-client in prepping expert witnesses.
• 50 ways to anticipate opposition tactics.
• PLUS: Dramatic excerpts from actual video depositions.

• 9 sources for finding qualified testifying experts.
• 7 steps for working effectively with experts.

• 30 essential contract clauses with 50 examples.
• 11 "red flag" terms to avoid.
• PLUS: Sample contracts and letters for subcontractors, experts and attorney-clients.

• Avoid conflicts of interest.
• Understand confidentiality issues affecting the CLNC®.

• Develop your ideal promotional package.
• 12 proven methods for locating attorney-clients.
• 50 breakthrough marketing strategies.
• Create a low budget and profitable marketing plan.

• 20 strategies for creating successful client interviews.
• Answer 14 common interview questions with ease.
• Learn how to leave every interview with a new case in hand.

• Negotiate your fee to earn $100-$150/hour.
• Set up and manage your business for profitability with the Institute's proven business principles.

• Test taking tips for the CLNC® Certification Exam.
• CLNC® recertification guidelines.

• Taught by the Pioneer of Legal Nurse Consulting
• The Most Credible National Certification
• The Proven Expert for 25 Years
• FREE CLNC® Mentoring
• 6-Month Risk-Free Guarantee
• FREE NACLNC® Association Membership
• The Most Documented Number of Successful Graduates
• The Only National Certification for Beginners
• The Most Cost-effective Training
• The Leader in Legal Nurse Consulting Research and Development

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Throughout the Success Journal you'll find places to add day-to-day thoughts, dreams and milestones. List events and meetings where you will market yourself and your business. Write down what you want to achieve. Record your major accomplishments - "I earned 6 figures" - and minor victories - "My files are organized." You will look back through your Success Journal and get such a kick out of the many things you've achieved, but only if you put them on paper.

If you write in and use your journal daily, you can move your life and your business forward by an astonishing degree. At the end of the year, the more worn and torn your Success Journal appears, the more you will have achieved and celebrated.

The last pages are blank for you to write your own CLNC® success story.
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