Why join AALNC?

Membership in AALNC
Goals for Membership
Benefits
Member Categories

Membership in AALNC

If you are a registered nurse currently practicing as a legal nurse consultant (LNC), or a registered nurse, individual, business or organization interested in the activities and goals of legal nurse consulting, then AALNC is for you!

As an AALNC member, you can increase your legal and medical knowledge, expand your network of contacts and stay up-to-date on the hottest topics affecting LNCs today!

Goals for Membership

Provide members with opportunities and experiences to further their professional development as legal nurse consultants.
Increase the legal and the medical communities' awareness of the nursing specialty of legal nurse consulting.
Promote excellence within the nursing specialty of legal nurse consulting.
Facilitate an exchange of information and establish a communication network for mutual support and fellowship among members.

Benefits

As an AALNC member, you will receive many exciting benefits to help you increase you presence in the legal nurse consulting community.

Networking

Access a nationwide network of more than 3,500 members.
Join one of 50 local chapters
Learn about the latest issues and trends concerning medical-legal issues and the legal nurse consulting practice.

Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting

This quarterly professional, peer-reviewed journal includes up-to-date articles, regular features and numerous resources. Written for both novice and experienced legal nurse consultants, the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting addresses a broad spectrum of medical and legal topics.

NetworkNews

The quarterly e-newsletter provides members with the latest professional and association news, including new products and publications, certification and educational opportunities.

Members Only Online Resources

Search for fellow AALNC members in the online membership directory.
Create and edit your membership profile to increase your visibility and enhance your career.
Access a variety of resources and tools available exclusively to members.

Educational Advancement

Attend educational sessions at the AALNC National Educational Conference where you can enhance your network of professional contacts, learn about recent advances and issues in your specialty, and gain new perspectives that can strengthen your practice.
Enhance your professional growth with more than 25 career-building products, such as Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice 2nd Edition and Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants. These items and more can be purchased in the AALNC Online Bookstore.
Receive a substantial discount on AALNC educational products and AALNC conference registration.

LNCC Certification

Become certified and earn the credential of a Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC). This will ensure colleagues, clients, employers and others in the medical-legal field that you are knowledgable, experienced and committed to the nursing specialty of legal nurse consulting.
Receive a substantial discount on LNCC certification exams, offered three times per year.

LNC Locator

Increase your visibility by adding your name to the online marketing database on the AALNC website. The LNC Locator lists each member's contact information, areas of clinical nursing experience and areas of legal expertise and identifies whether the person is an expert witness within those areas. Attorneys use this service free of charge to locate an LNC or expert witness.

Professional Liability Insurance

AALNC members have access to Professional Liability Insurance through Nurses Service Organization. Click here for details on the program officially endorsed by AALNC.

Member Categories

AALNC's fiscal year is January 1 - December 31. Dues are paid for the current fiscal year, and are not prorated, with the following exceptions. For each dues choice, your membership will be paid through December 31 of the current year.

	Joining Jan 1 - Jun 30	Joining Jul 1 - Dec 31
Active Member	$145.00	$75.00
Associate Member	$145.00	$75.00
Sustaining Member	$225.00	$115.00

Active
A Registered Nurse maintaining an active license in the US or its territories,who is working in a consulting capacity in the legal field.

Associate
A Registered Nurse maintaining an active license in the US or its territories who is interested in the goals and activities of AALNC, but has NOT worked in a consulting capacity during the previous 12 months.

Sustaining
An individual who practices law or any other individual, business, organization or facility with an interest in the goals and activities of AALNC.

Active and Associate members who join on or before June 30 and pay $145 will receive full membership benefits including all four issues of the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting. Active and Associate members who pay $75.00 on or after July 1 will receive the Summer and Fall issues of the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting. Active and Associate members who sign up for membership on or after July 1, and who would like to receive all 4 issues of the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting may pay $145.

Click here for an application!