Full Course Description
Legal Nursing Certificate Course
OUTLINE
Healthcare Litigation
- Evolution of medicine, nursing and healthcare
- The essence of the story behind litigation
- The burden of proof
- The expert witness seals the deal
The Components of Documentation
- Guidelines
- Interpretation
- Mistakes
- Education
- Social networking
- Indirect care
Electronic Nursing Documentation
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Meaningful Use
- Risky electronic documentation practices
- Dangers of email, social networking, and texting
Electronic Medical Record Strategies
- Time management
- Liability
- Software knowledge/Informatics
Reimbursement and Documentation
- Medicare and Medicaid Changes
- Incentives for participation
- Hospital Acquired Conditions
Elements of a Lawsuit
- Plaintiff complaints
- Medical record review
- Timeline chronology
- Evidence
Documentation When Things Go Wrong
- Compliance
- Regulations
- Incident reporting
- Adverse events
- Risk factors
Ethical Issues
- Truth telling
- Standards that are within standards
- Deviations, real or perceived
- Errors of omission
- Errors of commissions
- Communicating clearly
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
OBJECTIVES
- Analyze how the nursing standards of care can come under scrutiny.
- Evaluate authoritative sources.
- Separate care plan and the care planning process.
- Explore a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Communicate how documentation is used to decide if you are innocent or guilty in a lawsuit.
- Explore how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Inform how to use best practice and standard of care for documenting incident reports and adverse events.
- Analyze the Center for Medicare and Medicaid regulatory language on nursing documentation.
- Formulate a strategic tool for your standard of practice.
- Evaluate deposition proceedings.
- Analyze timeline chronologies.
- Determine defense and plaintiff allegations.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to reduce litigation exposure.
- Explore the common documentation mistakes and how to avoid/correct them.
- Evaluate facility policy and procedures for potential risk.
- Graph the litigation timeline.
- Formulate deposition questions as the plaintiff and/or defense teams.
- Practice litigation language during mock depositions.
Program Information
Outline
Healthcare Litigation
- Evolution of medicine, nursing and healthcare
- The essence of the story behind litigation
- The burden of proof
- The expert witness seals the deal
The Components of Documentation
- Guidelines
- Interpretation
- Mistakes
- Education
- Social networking
- Indirect care
Electronic Nursing Documentation
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Meaningful Use
- Risky electronic documentation practices
- Dangers of email, social networking, and texting
Electronic Medical Record Strategies
- Time management
- Liability
- Software knowledge/Informatics
Reimbursement and Documentation
- Medicare and Medicaid Changes
- Incentives for participation
- Hospital Acquired Conditions
Elements of a Lawsuit
- Plaintiff complaints
- Medical record review
- Timeline chronology
- Evidence
Documentation When Things Go Wrong
- Compliance
- Regulations
- Incident reporting
- Adverse events
- Risk factors
Ethical Issues
- Truth telling
- Standards that are within standards
- Deviations, real or perceived
- Errors of omission
- Errors of commissions
- Communicating clearly
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
Objectives
- Analyze how the nursing standards of care can come under scrutiny.
- Evaluate authoritative sources.
- Separate care plan and the care planning process.
- Explore a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Communicate how documentation is used to decide if you are innocent or guilty in a lawsuit.
- Explore how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Inform how to use best practice and standard of care for documenting incident reports and adverse events.
- Analyze the Center for Medicare and Medicaid regulatory language on nursing documentation.
- Formulate a strategic tool for your standard of practice.
- Evaluate deposition proceedings.
- Analyze timeline chronologies.
- Determine defense and plaintiff allegations.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to reduce litigation exposure.
- Explore the common documentation mistakes and how to avoid/correct them.
- Evaluate facility policy and procedures for potential risk.
- Graph the litigation timeline.
- Formulate deposition questions as the plaintiff and/or defense teams.
- Practice litigation language during mock depositions.
Target Audience
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical, Nurse Specialists, Legal Nurse, Consultants, Risk Managers.
Copyright :
05/17/2017