Legal Nurse Consulting Certificate Program
Contact Hours: 165 (an estimated time frame devoted to a course of study from start to finish that can vary from student to student)
Welcome to the Legal Nurse Consultant Certificate program. Many nurses are using their skills to practice full or part time in this area.
This Certificate Course will prepare you to begin a career as a legal nurse consultant. This certificate course is formatted for 165 contact hours of self-paced study with mentor feedback if needed. Upon completion of the course, participants will be eligible for a Certificate of Completion in Legal Nurse Consulting.
Communication with the course instructor is by email, telephone, fax, and/or US postal mail. Participants may utilize any one of these means to communicate.
The course is presented in four (4) modules (i.e. each module is outlined below, including content and reading assignments. Following the completion of each module, the participant will take an examination.
The examinations for Modules 1, 2, and 3 are objective type exams. Following the assignments for Module 4, the participant will select one case study for analysis. The participant will write up an analysis of the case according to specific instructions provided by the instructor.
Participants are given sixteen (16) weeks to complete the program. You may study at your own pace, and can progress through the course as quickly as you like.
GRADING: Examinations for Modules 1, 2, and 3 are objective type exams. There are fifty (50) questions on each exam. The grading scale is: 90 - 100 % = A, 80 - 89 % = B, 70 - 79 % = C, 60 - 69 % = D. Below 60 % = F. Grading for the Module 4 examination (case analysis- written exam) is on a Pass/Fail basis.
Module I – Content
The text for the certificate program 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 estimated to be $ 65.00 for members of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants and $ 99.00 for non-members. A fee is added for shipping. "Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice" Edited by: Patricia W. Iyer, MSN, RN, LNCC. Bocca Raton:CRC Press;2003. American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants 4700 W. Lake Avenue Glenview, IL 60025 Phone: Toll Free: 877-402-2562 Fax: 847-375-6313 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.