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Nursing Documentation: Legally-Proven Strategies to Keep You Out of the Courtroom


Speaker:
Rachel Henderson, PhD, MS, RN, HCRM
Duration:
6 Hours 14 Minutes
Copyright:
Aug 15, 2013
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Product Code:
RNV013130
Media Type:
DVD

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Description

Course Description:

If you were required to testify in court in defense of the care you provided to a patient, would your documentation be adequate to protect you from legal liability? If the care you provided came under scrutiny months or years after it occurred, would your documentation enable you to accurately describe the standard of care delivered to the patient? If you are not sure, then you do not want to miss this program!

During this in-depth, interactive seminar, you will have the opportunity to review real court cases and learn from the actual testimonies provided by nurses' depositions. Rachel Cartwright-Vanzant, an independent legal nurse consultant with over 28 years of clinical, management and consulting experience, will provide you with the information you need to ensure that your documentation, whether hand-written or electronic, depicts a level of care that meets applicable standards.

Learn how to identify and avoid risky documentation and integrate practices that will keep your license unblemished. What you learn will be immediately applicable to your practice and may keep you out of the courtroom.

 

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Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Nurses - California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours. 

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Nurses - Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Nurses - Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.6 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



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Speaker

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Rachel Henderson, PhD, MS, RN, HCRM, is an expert speaker on topics focused on legal aspects of healthcare, nursing documentation, and regulatory compliance. Her 22 years as a legal nurse consultant, inpatient clinical nurse specialist and healthcare risk manager (HCRM) bring life to her presentations by sharing real case scenarios. She is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and past president of the Florida Speakers Association (FSA). She is a published author in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. In addition to owning a medical and legal consulting business, she has her PhD in Public Policy and Administration: Law and Policy. Rachel works with law firms and healthcare organizations, evaluating medical records for compliance with standards of care and applicable regulations. She has been an expert witness for medical negligence cases for both the plaintiff and the defense.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Rachel Henderson has employment relationships with Medical Legal Concepts, Florida SouthWestern State College, and Palm Beach State College. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Henderson receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Rachel Henderson is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the American Society of Healthcare Risk Managers, and the American Society of Professionals in Patient Safety.


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Outline

  1. Setting the Stage
    1. Many people read medical records during a lawsuit
    2. Medical records are just as important as testimony
  2. Legal and Ethical Implications of Documentation
    1. Purpose of the medical record in the courtroom
    2. “Get it right the first time”
    3. Standards of documentation
    4. How to recognize deviations from the Standard of Care
  3. Risk Management & Documentation
    1. Incident reports
  4. Admissible Forms of Nursing Documentation
    1. Common documentation mistakes
    2. Physician orders
    3. Assessment
    4. Plan of Care
    5. Medications
    6. Interventions
    7. Difficult, stressful or sensitive situations
    8. Patient education & responses
    9. Other formats of documentation
  5. Nursing Charting Systems
    1. Narrative
    2. SOAP
    3. PIE charting
    4. Focus charting
    5. Charting by exception
    6. Considerations when using flow sheets
    7. Working with computerized medical records
  6. Avoiding Legally Risky Documentation
    1. Credible evidence
    2. Recording events objectively
    3. Maintaining factuality & thoroughness
    4. Avoiding ambiguity
    5. Avoiding bias
    6. Abbreviations to avoid
    7. Late entries
    8. Personal notes
    9. Correcting errors
  7. Documentation & Bioethical Dilemmas
    1. Code of ethics
    2. Telling the truth
    3. Universal principles of biomedical ethics
    4. ANA code for nurses
    5. End-of-life issues
    6. Informed Consent & Therapeutic Privilege
  8. Malpractice and Documentation
    1. Absence of information
    2. Falsifying, tampering or covering up
    3. Consequences of tampering
    4. Forensic Document Examiner’s role in record review
  9. Analyze a Real Case Scenario

 

Objectives

Upon completion of this self-study package, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the application of the Nurse Practice Act/Laws to documenting care of patients.
  2. List ten ways to keep your documentation notes and charts out of the courtroom.
  3. Summarize the common documentation mistakes and how to avoid and/or correct them.
  4. Integrate the correct practices into your documentation notes to keep your license unblemished.
  5. List at least three ways to safeguard electronic documentation.
  6. Compare and contrast the different forms of nursing documentation and how they are used in the courtroom.
  7. Utilize actual medical malpractice cases to learn how to improve your documentation.
  8. Demonstrate how to document precisely and completely when situations are sensitive and/or stressful.

Target Audience

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Legal Nurse Consultants, Risk Managers, Nursing Home Administrators

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