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My CLNC® Credential Gave Me Professional Recognition and the System for Success by Suzanne E. Arragg, RN, BSN, CDONA/LTC, CLNC, California I had the opportunity to work on my first legal nurse consulting case before I knew what the profession was all about. I had the exciting privilege of being involved in a trial, developing trial exhibits and educating the attorney about nursing Standards of Care for long term care. During that first case I placed high priority on learning how to maximize my nursing knowledge, organize it and convey it in a manner that would be useful to an attorney. I researched different programs via the Internet. But my question was, "What's the difference?" I found out the nurse paralegal programs were task oriented. They trained participants to offer attorney-support services, such as summarizing depositions and issuing subpoenas. But most of all, it became apparent that the nurse paralegal depends upon employment within a law firm. I gathered that over time the attorney would rely more on me as "his paralegal" and forget my specialty was nursing. The hallmark of the legal nurse consultant role is providing medical and nursing care analysis and blending legal causation with this analysis. A "paralegal" does not provide that level of analysis. I decided that I wanted nursing certification. Becoming a nurse paralegal would be more like learning pseudo-law, and nurse paralegal training is not recognized within the nursing profession. The Vickie Milazzo Institute provided the CLNC® Certification recognized by the nursing profession. Another bonus was the opportunity to learn through my preferred learning style at a live seminar. Was the CLNC® Certification Program the right choice? Absolutely! Vickie not only provides the tools and motivation necessary to build a successful legal nurse consulting practice and a full lifestyle, but she also provides the system s and resources CLNC®s need as they develop their businesses and their individual cases. No other course or organization offers this magnitude of support. Thank you, Vickie. © 2003 Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. Reprinted from Legal Nurse Consulting Ezine, Vol. 14, No. 19, 2003   
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