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Legal Nurse Consultant Academy

A practical course for registered nurses: how to read records like an expert, write findings attorneys rely on, testify, price your work and build a consulting practice.

Modules
8
Lessons
16
Certificate
Of completion
  1. 1

    The legal nurse consultant's role

    What LNCs do, for whom, and the difference between consulting and testifying.

    Open to everyone: read it without an account.

  2. 2

    Reading the medical record

    Finding your way through a record and turning it into a chronology attorneys can rely on.

  3. 3

    Standard of care analysis

    Where the nursing standard of care comes from and how to write findings that hold up.

  4. 4

    Reports and testimony

    Expert reports, disclosure requirements, depositions and trial.

  5. 5

    Setting up your business

    Business structure, insurance, taxes, confidentiality and conflicts of interest.

  6. 6

    Pricing and engagement terms

    Setting rates, retainers and the engagement letter that protects you.

  7. 7

    Finding and keeping clients

    Where attorneys look for nurses, how to reach them, and a follow-up system that works.

  8. 8

    Growing your practice

    Bringing on other nurses, quality control and raising your rates.

How it works

Read each lesson, mark it done, then take the module's short quiz. Pass every quiz (80% or more; retake as often as you like) to get a certificate of completion anyone can verify.

What this is, and isn't

An educational course, not a credential: the certificate isn't LNCC certification, and nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice. Rules vary by state; check with professionals where you practice. Content last reviewed November 2026.