Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice

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Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice

Second edition

Edited by Patricia W. Iyer, RN, MSN, LNCC

1132 pages, 8.5" x 11", hardbound

2002, AALNC/CRC Press

Price: $119.95

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Table of contents	About the editor & associates
Preface	Contributors

"As the legal nurse consultant’s core reference text, this book defines the knowledge base of the specialty. This text is the authoritative resource that every LNC or nurse interested in this field should have on hand, to refer to time and again.”
— American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants

Designed to meet the needs of both novice and advanced practitioners, the first edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice established standards and defined the core curriculum of legal nurse consulting. It also guided the development of the certification examination administered by the American Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Board. The extensive revisions and additions in Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, Second Edition make this best-selling reference even more indispensable. Legal nurse consulting programs all over the country rely on this book for educating nurses about how to enter this field. Many nurses use this text to teach themselves the basics.

In this year-long project, as chief editor, Ms. Iyer recruited the 8 associate editors and guided the revision of the text. Ms. Iyer read and edited every draft of every one of the 46 chapters. All chapters were updated by the original or replacement author. Fifteen new ones were added, each of which highlights an important aspect of legal nurse consulting practice.

See also the companion book, Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants, and the LNCC Practice Test.

New chapters:
•  Entry into the Specialty
•  Certification
•  Nursing Theory: Applications to Legal Nurse Consulting
•  Elements of Triage for Medical Malpractice
•  Evaluating Nursing Home Cases
•  Principles of Evaluating Personal Injury Cases
•  Common Mechanisms of Injury in Personal Injury Cases
•  ERISA and HMO Litigation
•  The LNC as Case Manager
•  Report Preparation
•  Locating and Working with Expert Witnesses
•  The Role of the LNC in Preparation of Technical Demonstrative Evidence
•  Marketing
•  Growing a Business
•  Business Ethics

Testimonial:
I want you to know I'm a huge fan of your textbook! My LNC online course has mostly consisted of reading Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practice from cover to cover and taking multiple choice exams on the content. The clarity of the writing, the real-world examples, information presented logically and thoroughly, it's a remarkable achievement. I know this was not a solo effort. Your contributors and editors are to be congratulated as well.
Many thanks for a readable, informative and inspiring effort,
Victoria Morse, RN, BA, BSN
San Francisco, CA

I am completing my BSN and starting my Masters in March at IWU (online) (Indiana Wesleyan University) and spent most of last night using "your" text as a reference for the business plan I am creating for my Management Project. The instructors were forward thinking enough to allow me to do this instead of a clinical project since I am not technically clinical at this time. I am ever so grateful for your contribution to this wonderful profession. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Patricia Brock, RN, LNCC, CLCP, HTI Legal Nurse Consulting and Life Care Planning
Orange City, Florida