 Vickie MilazzoVickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD, 51, not only started her own successful business in 1982 – she pioneered a whole industry. As founder and president of Vickie Milazzo Institute, she invented the field of legal nurse consulting. She’s come a long way since growing up in a shotgun house in New Orleans.The principles she’s learned and lived by as an entrepreneur and educator in a female-dominated industry are presented in her new book for women, Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn’t Know You Had to Get the Life and Career You Want Now. The Institute, which has tripled its annual revenue over the past five years to $12 million in 2005, is the nation’s oldest and largest training institute for legal nurse consultants. It’s the only publishing and education company devoted exclusively to this field. She created the trademarked CLNC® certification in 1994, the first national legal nurse consulting certification. Her Institute has trained more than 13,000 nurses as Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. She was a practicing critical care nurse for six years prior to beginning her career in legal nurse consulting. Vickie crossed nursing with law and then built a professional association of approximately 6,000 members. She is recognized as a trusted mentor and dynamic role model by tens of thousands of women. As the authoritative educator in her field, Vickie has been profiled in numerous publications, including The New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Woman Magazine, NurseWeek, Entrepreneur, Small Business Success and Ladies’ Home Journal™. Her work has been published in many nursing, legal and business publications including: USA Today, Nursing Spectrum, Forensic Nurse, National Medical-Legal Reporter, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Newsletter, American Journal of Nursing and Lawyers Weekly USA. Vickie, honored as one of Inc.’s 2004 Top Ten Entrepreneurs, also received these awards in 2004: • Stevie Award for Women Entrepreneurs, Mentor of the Year • Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing the Profession – NurseWeek • Most Innovative Small Business – Pitney Bowes’ Priority magazine • Top 100 Small Businesses in Houston, Top 50 Women-Owned Business in Houston, and Top 10 Women-Owned Companies Ranked by Largest Percentage of Revenue Growth – Houston Business Journal Vickie completed her bachelor of science in nursing at the University of St. Thomas and her master of science in nursing at Texas Women’s University, both in Houston, Texas. Vickie earned her juris doctor at South Texas College of Law. She resides in Houston. For more information, please consult these two resources: InsideEveryWoman.com and LegalNurse.com or watch this video on Vickie' legal nurse consultant training program. Interests and Hobbies: Vickie Milazzo lives in Houston, Texas with her husband Tom Ziemba. Homepage: http://www.LegalNurse.com |
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