LN 450
Legal Nurse Consulting: Process & Application
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course information
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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TEXTBOOKS: There is one (1) textbooks for the course:
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
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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.
BOARD APPROVALS: AIHCP is an approved provider of continuing education by the Florida Board of Nursing and the District of Columbia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975. Access information
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 30 Contact Hours.
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 30 contact hours of CE:
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
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Online Classroom Resouces and Tools
* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as "open book" tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page "Student Resource Center." The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor's online resume/biography, as well as your instructor's specific contact information.
* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional "readings" and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in 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.