LN 450
Legal Nurse Consulting: Process & Application
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This final course is pivotal for bring everything together in the building of a solid knowledge and theory base in legal nurse consulting practice. Students study actual cases and legal nurse consulting reports and learn additional skills related to work product for attorney clients. Effective report writing methodologies are examined. This course culminates in the actual full analysis of cases from the legal nurse consulting viewpoint and work product. Students conduct a real case analysis with full applicability of learned materials from the entire continuing education program of study. This course also provides the knowledge necessary to undertake one more additional and "optional" Continuing education course for those seeking a CE activity in a preceptorship with an attorney, law firm or a practicing legal nurse consultant. More information is provided to enrolled students concerning this option. Course Code: LN 450. Contact hours of continuing education = 30.
Pre-requisite: you must have successfully completed LN 400: Legal Nurse Consulting Theory & Practice I, and LN 420: Legal Nurse Consulting Theory & Practice II, and LN 430, Theory & Practice III, before enrolling into this continuing education course.
This course is particularly designed for those who would like to apply for Certification as a "Certified Specialist by the American College of Legal Nurse Consulting.
Instructor/Course Author: Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D, MBA, RN,BC, CNAA, LNC-CSp., FACHE
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TEXTBOOK
This course of study requires the use of a text book. The text for the course is: "Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice." You are required to purchase this text on your own.
Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice Second Edition. Patricia W. Iyer, MSN, RN, LNCC. Bocca Raton:CRC Press; 2002. ISBN-10: 0849314186, ISBN-13: 978-0849314186
AIHCP Online Bookstore: AIHCP provides an online bookstore stocked with all of the required textbooks, and/or materials required for its CE courses. To purchase this book online, click the access store link, go to the table of categories, right upper hand corner, and click on Legal Nurse Consulting. Access AIHCP Store: click here
Call and order your text book as soon as possible so that you can begin your course of study. You will need the text to start your studies and reading assignments.
Instructor: Your instructor for this course is Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D,MBA, RN,BC,FAAN, FACHE ,executive director of the American College of Legal Nurse Consulting. Access information
GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 30 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American College of Legal Nurse Consulting and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score, will be presented.
Within 24-48 hours after submission of your completed examination for this course, you will receive from us an e-mail notification of your final score and more information about the shipping of your CEU certificate.
ONLINE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARDS: Enrolled students have full access to our online Student Community Message Boards. These message boards allow students in our CE courses to meet each other, communicate online, share information, discuss topics of study and interest and much more. Full access is provided via the online classrooms.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
1).Enter the practice of Legal Nurse Consulting with sufficient knowledge for practice at a standard required by the employment market.
2). Practice in a variety of practice settings as a legal nurse consultant including; medical and nursing malpractice, expert witness role, toxic torts, product liability, insurance industry, law firms, health care related organizations, and as an entrepreneurial legal nurse consultant.
3). Utilize knowledge and skills required to comprehensively analyze cases for attorney clients, or other types of clients
4). Apply report writing skills and presentation skills for analyzed cases.
5). Understand and practice legal nurse consulting with regards to high ethics and adherence to standards of practice.
6). Prepare and develop develop marketing plans for career and business growth.
COURSE CONTENT:
Case Study Analysis
1). Case Study Reviews.
2). Case Study Development.
3). Case Study Analysis.
4). Report Writing.