How do you effectively represent, counsel, and advise a nurse in a licensure defense matter if he/she is providing with you false, inaccurate, or untruthful assertions?
I would ask you nurse to nurse that if you take the time, effort, and money (because attorney representation costs money) to hire an attorney to represent you in a legal matter, be honest, even if it hurts with your attorney.
Your attorney cannot adequately represent, counsel, and advise you based on false, inaccurate, untruthful assertions and information.
I have several clients who are not/have not been honest and forthright with me. This directly impacts the legal representation, counseling, and advising that I am providing to these nurses.
I feel a sense of disappointment initially; actually it hurts because being a nurse and representing nurses in licensure matters, I take my cases personally to a certain extent. However I have step back and remember:
1. The cases belongs to the clients not the attorney. Its their case, their license, and their livelihood on the line; and
2. Recall my 1993 nursing school ethics class discussion on personal vs. professional responsibility, accountability, and liability.
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