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Category Archives: Writing skills
Breaking Down the Nursing Home Chart
Nurses without long term care experience may be very hesitant to review one of these cases due to their lack of knowledge of these industry specific records. Once you understand where important information is located within these medical records you … Continue reading
Are you writing dangling modifiers?
I’ve just finished writing The Manual for Writing for Fame and Fortune. Modifiers dangle if they do not seem to be related to anything in the sentence or if they are not placed near enough to the words they modify … Continue reading
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Legal nurse consultants: How to lose a client in one report
Want repeat business? Here are some report “don’ts”. 1. Striking the wrong key Relying on the computer to function as the only proof reader of your LNC report is sure to miss a few common typographical or grammatical errors. An … Continue reading
Legal Nurse Consultants: Tips for Improving Writing Skills
Today, people are using very different writing styles, not just what you learned in school from your English teacher. Informal writing has changed. Text messaging, in particular, has caused us to think in terms of brevity of communication. But the … Continue reading
Are You Writing in Geek?
Imagine you are an attorney who has hired a legal nurse consultant to summarize and analyze complex obstetrical medical records. You don’t understand medical terminology and you know that the information in the record is crucial to understanding the case. … Continue reading
Expert Witnesses: Supporting Your Nursing Opinion
As an independent legal nurse consultant, with over a decade of experience who has reviewed dozens of expert cases and thousands of “behind the scenes” cases and provided deposition and trial testimony, I believe that one of the most important … Continue reading
Group behavior and Jurors
Candid Camera http://www.betterdaystv.net/play.php?vid=19442 For those of you not familiar with Candid Camera, this was a TV show that involved cameras that captured the behavior of unsuspecting people. They were set up in a situation, and then filmed. This snippet from … Continue reading
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Common Pitfalls in Report Writing
The inexperienced legal nurse consultant learns in the same way as the new clinical nurse – through on the job training. In nursing school we gain a tremendous amount of “book smarts” in the classroom but the most valuable training … Continue reading
8 Top Uses of Expert Witness Reports
1. The expert’s report is a succinct and strong statement of the expert’s opinions about liability, causation, or damages. 2. The expert may craft a report to refute the position of the opposing expert. 3. The expert’s report demonstrates the … Continue reading
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Top 10 Sources of Fresh Content for Your Blog Posts by Victoria Powell
Bloggers, just like journalists, authors and news reporters can find themselves experiencing writers’ block. Maybe you have had a blog for years, but after writing hundreds of posts, you find you aren’t coming up with fresh topics to write about. … Continue reading
