Full Course Description
Nursing Documentation: Proven Strategies to Keep Your Patients and Your License Safe
OUTLINE
The Components of Documentation
- Guidelines
- Interpretation
- Mistakes
- Education
- Social Networking
- Indirect Care
Electronic Nursing Documentation
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Meaningful Use
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)
- Risky electronic documentation practices
- Dangers of email, social networking, and texting
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Strategies
- Time Management
- Liability
- Software Knowledge
- Meaningful Use
Reimbursement and Documentation
- Medicare/Medicaid Changes
- Incentives and meaningful use criteria
- EMR Timelines
- Hospital Acquired Conditions
Documentation When Things Go Wrong
- Compliance
- Regulations
- CMC
- Incident Reports
- Adverse Events
- Risk Factors
Ethical Issues
- Truth Tellers
- Standards
- Deviations
- Errors
- Omissions
- Communicating
- Corrections
Avoiding Risky Documentation
- Credible evidence
- Avoiding Ambiguity
- Recording events objectively
- Late Entries
- Correcting Errors
What if the Worst Happens?
- Duty /Breach of Duty
- Nurse Practice Act
- State Board of Nursing
- Depositions
Examples and Case Studies of Documentation
OBJECTIVES
- Identify a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Describe how documentation is used to decide if you are guilty or innocent in a lawsuit.
- Recognize the meaningful use criteria to meet reimbursement needs.
- List how to best use features in computerized records to ensure reimbursement.
- Identify how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Define how to use best practice and standard of care for documenting incident reports and adverse events.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to keep your license unblemished.
- Summarize the common documentation mistakes and how to avoid and/or correct them.
Program Information
Outline
The Components of Documentation
- Guidelines
- Interpretation
- Mistakes
- Education
- Social Networking
- Indirect Care
Electronic Nursing Documentation
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Meaningful Use
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)
- Risky electronic documentation practices
- Dangers of email, social networking, and texting
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Strategies
- Time Management
- Liability
- Software Knowledge
- Meaningful Use
Reimbursement and Documentation
- Medicare/Medicaid Changes
- Incentives and meaningful use criteria
- EMR Timelines
- Hospital Acquired Conditions
Documentation When Things Go Wrong
- Compliance
- Regulations
- CMC
- Incident Reports
- Adverse Events
- Risk Factors
Ethical Issues
- Truth Tellers
- Standards
- Deviations
- Errors
- Omissions
- Communicating
- Corrections
Avoiding Risky Documentation
- Credible evidence
- Avoiding Ambiguity
- Recording events objectively
- Late Entries
- Correcting Errors
What if the Worst Happens?
- Duty /Breach of Duty
- Nurse Practice Act
- State Board of Nursing
- Depositions
Examples and Case Studies of Documentation
Objectives
- Identify a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Describe how documentation is used to decide if you are guilty or innocent in a lawsuit.
- Recognize the meaningful use criteria to meet reimbursement needs.
- List how to best use features in computerized records to ensure reimbursement.
- Identify how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Define how to use best practice and standard of care for documenting incident reports and adverse events.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to keep your license unblemished.
- Summarize the common documentation mistakes and how to avoid and/or correct them.
Target Audience
Nurses, Nursing Home Administrators, and other Healthcare Professionals
Copyright :
05/11/2016
Practical Ethics: Addressing the Real-Life Challenges Confronting Healthcare Professionals
OUTLINE
What are Your Values?
- Exploration of Foundational Beliefs/Values
- Values Exercise
- Sharpening Critical Thinking Skills
Health-Care Ethics
- Human Medical Experimentation and Evolution of Ethics
- Key Cases and Codes
- Presidents Garfield and McKinley
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Nuremburg Trials and Nuremburg Code
- Declaration of Helsinki
- The “God Committee” and Dialysis
- Recent Application of Ethical Decisions in the U.S.
Ethics Committees
- When is it Appropriate to Involve the Ethics Committee?
- Seeking Consultation: How To’s
- Understanding the Composition of Committees/Models
Ethical Foundations
- Ethical Viewpoints and Stances
- Deontology versus Teleology
- Objectivism versus Relativism
- Key Theories
- Kantian Ethics
- Natural Law
- Utilitarianism
- Rawlsian Ethics
- Ethic of Care
- Rights-Based Ethics
- Communitarian Ethics
Ethical Principles
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Veracity
- Fidelity
- Justice
- Respect for Persons
Ethical Decision-Making: A Toolkit for Practice
- Framing Ethical Questions and Problems
- Decision-Making Formats and Tools
- The Four-Quadrant Approach
- Bennett-Woods Eight Step Model
The Most Controversial Cases
- Classic, Precedent-Setting Cases
- Current Ethical Dilemmas and Recent Cases
- Living Wills, Advance Directives, DNRs and ANDs
- Cases Involving Personhood Definitions
- Issues of Informed Consent
- What are some of the Most Complex Cases You’ve Encountered?
Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: Decision-Making Team Practice
- A Dilemma of Limited Resources: Hurricane Katrina and Mercy Hospital
Exercising Ethical Leadership
- Ethical Leadership in the Workplace
- Keeping Current on Ethical Issues
- Ethical Dilemmas on the Horizon: Advancing Technology
- Recent Research: A Sampler
- Educational Opportunities in
- Health-Care Ethics
OBJECTIVES
- Determine scenarios that benefit from ethics committee involvement.
- Investigate ethical insights to clinical and workplace scenarios.
- Apply a variety of ethical decision-making tools to analyze complex patient/family dilemmas.
- Integrate knowledge from precedent-setting ethical cases into current decision-making.
- Critique current ethical cases utilizing sound ethical principles.
- Dissect potential ethical dilemmas arising from technological advances now and in the future.
- Incorporate a variety of “ethical tools” into a practical, usable, and easily accessible ethical toolkit.
Program Information
Outline
What are Your Values?
- Exploration of Foundational Beliefs/Values
- Values Exercise
- Sharpening Critical Thinking Skills
Health-Care Ethics
- Human Medical Experimentation and Evolution of Ethics
- Key Cases and Codes
- Presidents Garfield and McKinley
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Nuremburg Trials and Nuremburg Code
- Declaration of Helsinki
- The “God Committee” and Dialysis
- Recent Application of Ethical Decisions in the U.S.
Ethics Committees
- When is it Appropriate to Involve the Ethics Committee?
- Seeking Consultation: How To’s
- Understanding the Composition of Committees/Models
Ethical Foundations
- Ethical Viewpoints and Stances
- Deontology versus Teleology
- Objectivism versus Relativism
- Key Theories
- Kantian Ethics
- Natural Law
- Utilitarianism
- Rawlsian Ethics
- Ethic of Care
- Rights-Based Ethics
- Communitarian Ethics
Ethical Principles
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Veracity
- Fidelity
- Justice
- Respect for Persons
Ethical Decision-Making: A Toolkit for Practice
- Framing Ethical Questions and Problems
- Decision-Making Formats and Tools
- The Four-Quadrant Approach
- Bennett-Woods Eight Step Model
The Most Controversial Cases
- Classic, Precedent-Setting Cases
- Current Ethical Dilemmas and Recent Cases
- Living Wills, Advance Directives, DNRs and ANDs
- Cases Involving Personhood Definitions
- Issues of Informed Consent
- What are some of the Most Complex Cases You’ve Encountered?
Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: Decision-Making Team Practice
- A Dilemma of Limited Resources: Hurricane Katrina and Mercy Hospital
Exercising Ethical Leadership
- Ethical Leadership in the Workplace
- Keeping Current on Ethical Issues
- Ethical Dilemmas on the Horizon: Advancing Technology
- Recent Research: A Sampler
- Educational Opportunities in
- Health-Care Ethics
Objectives
- Determine scenarios that benefit from ethics committee involvement.
- Investigate ethical insights to clinical and workplace scenarios.
- Apply a variety of ethical decision-making tools to analyze complex patient/family dilemmas.
- Integrate knowledge from precedent-setting ethical cases into current decision-making.
- Critique current ethical cases utilizing sound ethical principles.
- Dissect potential ethical dilemmas arising from technological advances now and in the future.
- Incorporate a variety of “ethical tools” into a practical, usable, and easily accessible ethical toolkit.
Target Audience
Case Managers, Chaplains/Clergy, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Social Workers, and other Healthcare Professionals
Copyright :
01/27/2016