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Legal Nurse Consultants

Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits

Clinical nursing experience and up-to-date medical knowledge are needed to enter the field of legal nurse consulting.

To be a successful legal nurse consultant, you should enjoy organizing information and writing reports, be able to explain medical issues and procedures to people with nonmedical backgrounds, and be skilled to handle multiple tasks under deadline pressure. You should also have strong reasoning skills, self-motivation, and the ability to work well with many types of people.

If you also practice as a nurse, you should enjoy working with people and be able to give directions as well as follow instructions and work as part of a health care team. Anyone interested in becoming a registered nurse should also have a strong desire to continue learning because new tests, procedures, and technologies are constantly being developed in the health care field.