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Legal Nurse Investigators are Registered Nurses who are required to complete a certification course in order to use the CLNI credential (Certified Legal Nurse Investigator). One cannot legitimately use the term 'legal nurse investigator' or 'LNI' without successful completion of the CLNI Certification Course. This is due to the extensive training guidelines set forth by the LNI Institute, Inc. to ensure the best professionals in a growing field.
CLNI's investigate what went wrong in a medical record and uncover fraud often put into effect by physicians, nurses, and medical facilities. Certified Legal Nurse Investigators also possess advanced documentation, legal nurse consulting, case management, forensice nursing, and interviewing skills available with no other certification program.
The tools CLNI's learn and skills they have learned are as follows:
- Advanced Skills that enhance knowledge in the legal nurse consulting, case management, forensic nursing, or hospital management fields
- Advanced investigative techniques that help solve or decipher medical record tampering cases to enhance skills as a Registered Nurse, case manager, forensic nurse, legal nurse consultant, or life care planner
- Techniques used to investigate fraud, including Medicare and Medicaid fraud
- Advanced interviewing techniques that will get cases. The interviewing techniques will also help attorneys, insurances companies, managed care organizations, legal nurse consultants, life care planners and case managers to interview clients, patients, potential experts and healthcare workers involved in a case.
Certified Legal Nurse Investigators are also qualified to help improve hospital compliance drastically by educating facilities with enhanced skills throughout the hospital causing a decrease in medical malpractice, mistakes and tampering with records. Legal Nurse Investigators also consult with hospitals to augment their documentation skills and skills on interviewing while triaging patients to determine their true medical history.
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