Welcome to the Legal Nurse Consulting College Certificate Program Program. This course is the third foundational course for the Legal Nurse Consulting program and provides for comprehensive learning of the current principles and practices of Legal Nurse Consulting today. Legal Nurse Consulting is a widely recognized advanced nursing specialty practice and this program prepares graduates to enter this specialty practice. This course utilizes the most current and authoritative textbook in the specialty of legal nurse consulting and presents all facets of the practice. You receive comprehensive education in the professional practice of consulting, as well as appropriate health care and nursing law. Continuation of the study of legal nurse consulting continues in the other three track courses for this specialty. Requirement for this course is current state licensure/registration as a Registered Nurse and completion of LNC 300 Module I and LNC 350 Module II.
This course is a comprehensive course and provides instruction/study on all of the major facets of legal nurse consulting, including business principles and practices. The text book used in the course is endorsed by the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
This course is self-paced, with one-to-one faculty mentoring. Student's in this program have one year to complete all four modules. Extension of time may be granted according to university policy and faculty approval. This course is formatted for three semester hours of credit. This course also provides an excellent means to obtain an education credential in legal nurse consulting.
All assignments for this course on provided inside of the online classroom.
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. It can easily be purchased directly from the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. You can phone in your order, or visit their website and print the order form for the text and mail your order in. The cost of the text book is $95.00 for members of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants and $99.95 for non-members. A fee is added for shipping.
Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice Second Edition. Patricia W. Iyer, MSN, RN, LNCC. Bocca Raton:CRC Press; 2003.
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
401 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago , IL 60611
Phone: Toll Free: 877-402-2562
Fax: 312-673-6655
Email: info@aalnc.org
Website: http://www.aalnc.org
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 assignments.
You have many avenues of access to me. You may contact me anytime you have questions, would like clarification, etc. Your interaction with me is one-on-one and this is highly beneficial as you proceed through the course. You may contact me anytime you need to. Full instructor contact information is provided inside of the online classroom for this course.
Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D., MBA, RN,CS, CNAA, FACHE - is President of Dominick L. Flarey & Associates, a health care consulting firm, and The Center for Medical-Legal Consulting. He has held positions as a certified nurse practitioner, associate administrator of patient care, chief operating office and administrator in acute care hospitals. He is a faculty member for Learning Tree University. He was an executive consultant to a national "big 6" accounting firm's health care practice and was a service line administrator and consultant for case management for another national consulting firm. He holds a BSN, an MBA, and Doctorates in nursing administration and management.
Dr. Flarey is certified in nursing administration advanced and as an adult nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center. He is a board certified health care executive by the American College of Healthcare Executives, and is a Fellow in the college. He also holds national certification in managed care from the Professional Education Institute. He is a Certified Medical-Legal Consultant.
He is the past editor-in-chief of JONA's (Journal of Nursing Administration) Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Nursing Administration, Seminars for Nurse Managers, Case Management: Managing the Process of Patient Care, and Nursing Outcomes. He has authored over 50 published articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Flarey is editor/author of the book, "Redesigning Nursing Care Delivery: Transforming Our Future," published by Lippincott/Raven publishers. He is also co-editor/author of the following books by Aspen Publishers: "Reengineering Nursing and Health Care: The Handbook for Organizational Transformation," winner of a 1995 AJN book of the year award, "The Handbook of Nursing Case Management: Health Care Delivery in a World of Managed Care," "Case Studies in Case Management," "Health Care Outcomes: Collaborative, Path-Based Approaches," and "Cardiovascular Outcomes: Collaborative, Path-Based Approaches," and "Process-Centered Healthcare Organizations."
He lectures nationally on the topics of Case Management, Critical Pathways, Reengineering, Redesign, Organizational Transformation, Managed Care, and Legal Issues in Health Care. He is owner and president of his own consulting firm located in northeastern Ohio . He currently practices as a medical-legal nurse consultant. He has consulted for numerous attorneys across the country on medical and nursing malpractice cases, personal injury cases, product liability cases, workers compensation cases, and has served as an expert witness in nursing malpractice cases.
There is one examination for this course. The examination is an online examination consisting of objective-type questions. The grading scale for this course is:
90-100% = A
80-89% = B
70-79% = C
Below 70% = Fail
You must score at minimum of 70% on all examinations in order to pass this course and receive credit.
Certification and Course Approval: This course, along with the other courses in this college certificate program, are approved for CE credits by the American College of Legal Nurse Consulting. Also, after successful completion of all four modules, you are eligible for certification by the American College of Legal Nurse Consulting. Full information is provided to you at the time of enrollment into this course.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
1). Prepare registered nurses to enter the practice of Legal Nurse Consulting with sufficient knowledge for practice at a standard required by the employment market.
2). Prepare registered nurses to 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). Gain the knowledge and skills required to comprehensively analyze cases for attorney clients, or other types of clients
4). Learn effective 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 new legal nurse consultants to increase their body of knowledge related to the practice of legal nurse consulting for personal and career growth.
7). Prepare registered nurses and practicing legal nurse consultants to successfully achieve certification by examination.
8). Prepare legal nurse consultants to develop their own marketing plans for career and business growth.
9). Provide legal nurse consultants with a college level credential for the practice of legal nurse consulting.
Responsibilities of the Legal Nurse Consultant
1). Legal Writing.
2). Medical Record Analysis.
3). Literature Research.
4). Report Preparation.
5). Locating and Working with Expert Witnesses.
The Legal Nurse Consultant as Expert Witness
1). The Liability Nurse Expert Witness.
2). The Expert Fact Witness.
3). The Life Care Planning Expert.
4). Business Principles for the Nurse Expert Witness.
Mediation, Settlement & Trial
1). Alternative Dispute Resolution.
2). Preparation of Technical Demonstrative Evidence.
3). Trial Preparation.
4). The Trial Process.
Business Principles
1). Starting a Business.
2). Successful Marketing for the LNC.
3). Growing a Business.
4). Business Practices and Ethics.
If you have any questions regarding this program, you may address
them to adm@breyerstate.com.
An administrative faculty member will respond to all questions.
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