legal
Do you mean the job where you read the chart in a lawsuit and then tell the lawyer who did what wrong or right?
If so, there can be lots of $$$ in that. I have a friend in Detroit who does it, she didn't have to take any class, she just applied to a lawyer for a job. She gets $65/hour just to READ the chart, not counting anything else. The lawyer's office gives her the criteria to work from for every case. If she's deposed she makes $150/hour plus court costs and travel (for both deposition and testifying in court if it comes to that). You have to have a lot of experience though, she's been a nurse 20 years.
Angela

LNC is expensive & time consuming!
I looked into legal nurse consulting as an alternative to bedside nursing. Put it this way, I love my patients but I hate the stressful working conditions!

LNC is expensive and time consuming. I went to a few local chapter meetings. The ladies who had been doing it said it can be really "heavy" work too, stressful and there are deadlines and sometimes the attorneys are jerks (but then again we're used to the doctors)! There are tests to take to get certified. The local chapter I went to didn't even allow you to take the test until you had (I forget how many) hundreds of hours logged.

...because of the time and cost I backed away from it.

After searching around and doing my homework, I found a fantastic home based basiness that I am having more fun with!!! I get to be creative and I work with an incredible bunch of professionals. The skills I'm learning in my home based business now will serve me for the rest of my life.

I'm a nurse entrepeneur and proud of it! I'd love to talk to others who are considering their own home based business OR who have tried one in the past!