AANLCP Journal of Nurse Life Care Planning

Editorial Committee Agenda

1/10/2023

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, Misty Coffman,  Patti Mazurkiewicz, Dawn Cook, Melinda Pearson

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: Hierarchy of Evidence

OLD Business:

Follow up:

• Fallen on hard times: Sponsorship
• If they have paid, they will be reimbursed for the conference. If they haven’t they can get a ticket
• Thursday meet and greet for the newbies.
• Dr. Ron Luke Doctor Life Care Planner equal to Nurse Life Care Planner
• Find out who used to be on the committee.
• Leads for Business of Life Care Planning
• Remove reviewers
• Follow up for business: performancelaws.com follow up with webinars.
• Misty; CPA for how to set up your business

New Business:

• New article writer leads
• New Subjects for issues 2 years out.
• Spring 2025
• Summer 2026

Planning ahead:

Article Topics:

Business of Life Care Planning

• Hierarchy of evidence for deposition/nurse life care planning
• Differences between Nurse Life Care Planning and Life Care Planning
• 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
• 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