Day 1 - Schedule/Agenda

7:30 a.m. Registration, Refreshments

8:00 a.m. Becoming a PLNC™
• What Is a Legal Nurse Consultant?
• Why become a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant™?

9:45 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:00 a.m. Marketing
• Marketing Your Legal Nurse Consulting Practice
• Cost Effective Marketing Tools You Can Use
• How To Create an Effective Curriculum Vitae with Examples

12:00 a.m. Lunch Break (on your own)

1:00 p.m. Business Development
• Setting Up Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business
• Preparing a Consulting Agreement
• Setting and Collecting Fees

3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break

3:15 p.m. Litigation
• Understanding the Litigation Process from Complaint to Trial
• Legal Terms You Need To Know

5:30 p.m. Adjournment

Day 2 - Schedule/Agenda

7:30 a.m. Refreshments

8:00 a.m. Litigation Support
• Reviewing, Summarizing and Providing Opinions on Medical Records
• Case Screening Checklist

Evaluating Cases
• How to Review Medical Records
• Sample Medical Records Review and Evaluation

9:45 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:00 a.m. Research
• Key Research Techniques
• Simple Research Tools to Use in your PLNC™ practice

Reporting Your Findings
• Providing Reports with Sample Reports
• Preparing a Targeted Case Evaluation
• Questions & Answers

12:00 a.m. Lunch Break (on your own)

1:00 p.m. PLNCTM Tools
• Preparing Chronologies
• Drafting a Case Screening Form

2:30 p.m. Refreshment Break

2:45 p.m. Testifying As An Expert Witness
• Essential Skills/Areas of Expertise
• Being an Expert Witness/10 Key Deposition Skills

Medical Record Review
• Analyze and evaluate sample medical records
• Focus on essential medical/nursing issues in a case

Sample Complaint Analysis
• Lawsuit Complaint evaluation
• Step-by-step analysis of lawsuit Complaint

4:30 p.m. Certification Test