AANLCP Journal of Nurse Life Care Planning

Editorial Committee Agenda

2/15/2023

Via ZOOM! (please don’t dress up) Address at the end of the page.

Beverage of choice encouraged.

8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific

Present: Stephen Axtell, Patti Mazurziewicz, Melinda Pearson, Nellie Kreimer, Dawn Cook, Misty Coffman

Meeting Decorum: Use the hand-up reaction to indicate you have a contribution so the editor can be sure you, and everyone else, will get a chance to speak.

After Meeting Topic: Review of Bias-free language

OLD Business:

Follow up:

• Find out who used to be on the committee.
• Leads for Business of Life Care Planning
• Follow up for business: performancelaws.com follow up with webinars.
• Misty; CPA for how to set up your business
• Michelle poleski
• Pat Iyer How to exhibit
• Lisa Wade
• How to get started collaboration. Melinda and Patti

New Business:

• Collaborate for hierarchy of evidence article? Nellie, Melinda, Patti
• What are they teaching in life care courses.
• Shaylene Giles
• ICHCC-certification
• IRET
• Kaplan
• Capital Law School
• New Subjects for issues 2 years out.
• Spring 2025
• Summer 2026
• Conference:
• Volunteers for sitting at the table.
• Finding more writers
• Networking
• Who will be at the conference
• Don’t be afraid to volunteer me to anyone at the conference.

Planning ahead:

Article Topics:

Business of Life Care Planning

• How do you exhibit at attorney events. Signage, handouts.
• How to get listed in an expert directory. Costs, survey.
• How to create a website that won’t hurt your reputation
• Some things to get you started:
• Hierarchy of evidence for deposition/nurse life care planning
• Understanding the scope of interdisciplinary life care planners
• Peer Support
• Getting benefits for yourself and your people.
• Floating Payroll
• Business to business marketing
• Prepping for a deposition or trial of a trial expert
• Training your people
• Post Covid marketing
• Find Subcontractors
• Incentivizing your people
• Networking to gain business
• Subcontracting/owning your own business
• Time Management
• Charging and cost
• Who hires you? Insurance, attorneys, and private practice
• Elder Care
• Getting hired
• Care plan checklist?
• Finding Mentorship/apprenticing/Internships
• Tricks for subcontracting
• What can I delegate
• Services to help the business
• HighTail Hippa compliant
• Dropbox, business option

Mental Health:

• Neuropsychological testing.
• How to understand
• What kinds are important
• When it is important to push for it
• Pediatric testing
• Emotional Trauma and Mental Health
• Stages of mental health progression- recommended as part of any article in this series
• How to charge?
• Brain injuries
• How many sessions, how to decide
• Differences between the therapies, CBT, Neurofeedback, speech therapy
• Future psychiatric
• Evals
• Drug Counseling
• How do they overlap?
• Sexual assault
• How to read the reports

Joint care:

• Shoulder/knee surgery, pricing .
• Life expectancy tables, how to use.
• Varieties of surgery.
• Tendon Transfers
• Joint-centered articles:
• Shoulders, back, knee, hip, etc
• Hip replacements, best places to find costs.
• How to code.
• Hip care.
• Different kinds of therapies.
• Osteoarthritis
• Likelihood of complications and degeneration
• Hands, ankles, wrists.
• Rehabbing.
• ODG

Ostomy and Wound Care

• G-tubes and pegs

Ethics

• Difference between certified and non-certified life care planners.How to keep them accountable?
• Mandatory Reporting: how and who?
• Retained Defense Life Care Planner: Expert errors. What to consider.
• Ethical Violations: Defense or Plaintiff.
• How to tell an attorney that you don’t have a case.

Editorial Information

• Tentative schedule Writer/reviewer deadlines