Welcome to National Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (NALNC)

The National Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (NALNC) is an association of knowledgeable nurses who lend their insight and training to the legal system. As an organization, we provide leadership, education, marketing, and support to the legal nurse consultant community while striving to enhance and further develop the field. Members of NALNC have the opportunity to become certified through an online training course.  To learn more about the NALNC Certification Course, click here.

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WHAT IS A LEGAL
NURSE CONSULTANT (LNC)?

A Legal Nurse Consultant is a licensed, registered nurse with legal training that consults with attorneys, doctors, and/or clients on medical matters.  They lend their knowledge and expertise to the legal system through reviewing medical records, medical research, and by written and oral court testimony.  This could include reviewing relevant medical literature or medical records, interviewing witnesses, and providing a professional medical opinion.

Think you've got what it takes to become a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant?  Test your knowledge - take the NALNC LNC Certification Quiz (20 Questions) - Free!  Click here to begin.
 

WHY SHOULD AN LNC BELONG TO
MORE THAN ONE LNC ORGANIZATION?

As an LNC, you are in business for yourself.  To succeed, it is important to market yourself as a Legal Nurse Consultant.  By joining more than one  organization, the connection between your name and the profession strengthens in several powerful ways:

• Your internet presence as an LNC increases

• You may add to your credentials

• Your network with other LNCs grows

• Increased visibility to a greater number of employers

• Your knowledge of the LNC field expands

What are the benefits and privileges of becoming a member of NALNC?

NALNC members enjoy a free listing in the NALNC Directory.  This is a fantastic tool for marketing and networking opportunities. When a potential client searches the internet in your area, make your name the one they will find. The NALNC Forum is an excellent way to network with your peers, share information, pool resources and discover new employment opportunities. Also, take advantage of our NALNC Jobs Board to learn of current employment opportunities. Check out what's happening in the news related to LNCs at NALNC News.  All this and more is available to members.  Content is being added and improved daily.

Attention legal professionals: Are you seeking a Legal Nurse Consultant?  This website contains two searchable directories, the LNC Directory of all American NALNC members and a national Med/Law Expert Witness Directory.

NALNC Chapter Presidents

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Notice to LNCs and NALNC Members:

NALNC is looking for public and privately posted articles, newsletters, listserv messages, and especially "private" or public Yahoo group messages (esp, but not limited to, those authored by LNCs) that include any false or negative information about a business, person or patient, and any details or information regarding a patient or patient's case that's been published to the internet. You may remain anonymous, if you choose. Please include the author's identity and the place the info was posted.

The materials collected by NALNC will be used to survey the professional (and non professional) conduct of LNCs to determine whether regulations governing internet postings (whether they fall in the category of "private" or public--there being no significant difference) should be implemented, or in states which already have such regulations, whether such regulation should be enforced.

Any NALNC Member who publishes inappropriate content to the internet may have their membership permanently suspended.  Publication of any details about a patient or patient's case is grounds for suspension of your NALNC membership.  Likewise, publication of false statements about another person or business is considered conduct unbecoming of a LNC and grounds for suspension of your NALNC Membership.

Other LNC organizations are being asked to create their own guidelines for their members.  The recent lawsuit by a LNC filed in federal court against two other LNCs and the court orders which followed remind us of the serious nature of publishing false information about another person or business.  Following that lawsuit, NALNC received a number of complaints from members of the public and the legal-medical profession regarding messages posted to the internet by LNCs.  NALNC's newsletter discusses this topic is more detail.  LNCs are urged to read the article on LNC publications and share that information with other LNCs.