A prospective client asked me today, its your job to get nurses to hire you right?
Wow! I replied its my job to represent, counsel, and advise nurses who retain me. You haven't retained my services and therefore for prospective clients like yourself, I point out the options when a nurse has a pending State Nursing Board complaint for you to make an informed decision on how you want to proceed.
Its very straightforward: you retain me or you don't retain me. Or you can hire another lawyer or you can represent, counsel, and advise yourself before the State Nursing Board. Its your choice and its your decision.
I also told this nurse that in any given week, I receive between 5-15 calls, inquiries, emails, or faxes from nurses with pending or forthcoming State Nursing Board cases in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Not all of these inquiries retain my services but I receive alot of inquiries in any given week.
I also make a decent living representing, counseling, and advising nurses in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana and providing representation in adminstrative law matters in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
I have plenty of free information and educational materials on my blog and website because I am a RN and I know the majority of nurses represent themselves before the State Nursing Boardin these types of cases.
No, my job is not to get nurses to hire me and no I am not sitting by phone waiting and biting my nails for the next nurse with a State Nursing Board complaint to call my office. I also don't tell nurses who call my office "Its all or nothing." I don't paint a fire and brimstone picture of State Nursing Board investigations/evidentiary hearings or regulatory board investigations and hearings. I don't tell nurses "hire me or you will lose your nursing license." No arm twisting here pumpkin for you to sign a legal services agreement.
I also don't do the hard selling for legal services like:
1. Retain me or else;or
2. Retain me or go to jail, go directly to jail, don't pass go, and do not collect $200.00
3. I also don't make any promises or guarantees. Its unethical.
I market and advertise but I don't use hard ball or scare tactics when a nurse contacts my office with a pending complaint. I don't think its necessary because I care about my clients and prospective clients because we are all nurses. That's just me, I am cancer. http://horoscopes.aol.com/astrology/zodiac-central/cancer
This is the first time someone has told me this in my 9 years of license defense practice and it struck a nerve. I don't know if the nurse was just nervous about the pending complaint and the cost of attorney representation but I really took offense to the remark "its your job to get nurse to hire you right" today.
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