My name is Pat Iyer. I am President of the Pat Iyer Group and have run a successful legal nurse consulting business since 1989. I mentor nurses who want to become Legal Nurse Consultants. This is a tip about proof reading reports. Proof reading is essential. It can save much embarrassment at the time of deposition, at the time of trial or worse yet with the attorney that you’re working with and that person finds a typographical error. It’s crucial that you allow some time for proofreading, whether you’re preparing expert reports or any other kind of document. I’m always amazed by the things that I think I have written versus what I have actually written. When I sit down and prepare a report I need to walk away and then go back and review it and make sure that I picked up typos, that I haven’t left words out, that I have my dates correct.
I have the names of the plaintiff and the defendants correct, and most importantly I have spelled the name of my client correctly. I have seen expert reports where years have been wrong, the names of the patients have been wrong, and the names of the people have been spelled in different ways within the same report. This really hurts your credibility. These are the kinds of things that you pick up when you proofread and you proofread carefully. Also, in any kind of report that you’re working on whether you’re preparing export reports, chronologies, timelines, it’s always important to proofread after you’ve been able to walk away from it. Give it a little bit of time. Proof reading it in the paper form enables you to find errors that you might miss if you are looking at the computer screen. Get more great tips about report writing by investing in a copy of “Honing Your Legal Nurse Consulting Skills.” Order it at the link below http://tinyurl.com/lnz2kjd and also pick up our free e-books by checking the links on the homepage of PatIyer.com.
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