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496 How to get started as an LNC – Kristin Stiner
How to get started as an LNC? Nurses who are considering careers as LNC sometimes have a limited view of what this involves: being an expert witness at depositions and trials or finding such experts, and—the biggest obstacle for many—having one’s own business, possibly with employees. They may also believe they have to invest thousands…
Read More495 How to Silence Your Inner Critic Annie Notestein
You’re doing some work-related tasks, and a voice ( your inner critic) tells you you’re doing it all wrong. Someone wrongly criticizes you, and you don’t speak up for yourself. When you try to go to sleep at night, you keep on thinking of everything you have to do to complete a project. Each of…
Read More494 How to Rapidly Build LNC Business – Ashley Moreau
Pat Iyer, host of this podcast and LNC Business owner, usually recommends that legal nurse consultants allow 3-5 years to develop a full-time practice. She is delighted to showcase an exception to that flexible rule. Ashley Moreau began her LNC Business practice in 2020, four months after the pandemic began. Prior to that time, she’d…
Read More493 From Watchdog to LNC – Mary Ann Seibold
In 2019, thirty percent of the money spent on healthcare in the U.S. was wasted through inappropriate care levels, unnecessary procedures, abuse, fraud, and other deviations from established standards of care. Mary Ann Seibold, who worked four years reviewing care given to Medicare Advantage patients explains how she went from Medicare watchdog to LNC and also the vital watchdog nature that utilization management plays in attempting to keep down the cost of wasteful medical activity.
Read More492 How a Risk Manager Saves a Life – Alfreda Whitley
Every legal nurse consultant needs to understand risk management and also the duties of a risk manager and quality assurance as practiced in a clinical setting. It’s often where one finds patients whose needs have slipped through the cracks created by insufficiently considered procedures, new medical practitioners, and even the routine event of a shift change
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