Full Course Description
Intensive Training Course – Day 1
Are you unknowingly putting your career at risk? Perhaps you want to make sure you are practicing safely so that you never get called to the courtroom? Maybe you are interested in one day considering a lucrative side job as a Legal Nurse Consultant?
This recording will provide just the information you need! We know that most days nurses are literally superhuman, but mistakes can still get made. It’s time to learn how you can secure your job, license, and protect yourself from potential lawsuits.
Meet Jessica. Jessica had always heard, “if you don’t document, you will get in trouble.” During her orientation for a new job, her preceptor taught her how to document the unit requirements and reassured Jessica that writing much more than that was a waste of time. Jessica never questioned this, and actually thought, “ I don’t need to worry about charting; the computer takes care of that. If I chart what my unit audits for, I can sleep soundly.”
2 years later … Jessica sits down quietly at the deposition table, spells her name for the court reporter and is sworn in. “Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” If this happened to Jessica, it could happen to you!
In this comprehensive training course in Legal Nursing, expert Brenda Elliff, RN, MPA, ONC, CCM, LNCC provides intense training on nursing documentation and litigation to transform the way you think about your nursing practice and how you document the care you provide.
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze how the nursing standards of care can come under scrutiny.
- Evaluate authoritative sources.
- Distinguish between a care plan and the care planning process.
- Evaluate a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Defend how documentation is used to decide if you are innocent or guilty in a lawsuit.
- Propose how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Apply 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.
- Develop defense and plaintiff allegations, in response to the same scenario.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to reduce litigation exposure.
- Distinguish common documentation mistakes and how to avoid/correct them
- Evaluate facility policy and procedures for potential risk.
- Extrapolate the litigation timeline
- Formulate deposition questions as the plaintiff and/or defense teams.
- Practice litigation language during mock depositions.
Outline
Healthcare Litigation
- Evolving trends in nursing litigation today
- The essence of the story behind litigation
- The burden of proof
- The expert witness seals the deal. Understand the impact.
- Learn whether you should (or shouldn’t) have your own malpractice coverage
The Components of Documentation
- Guidelines and interpretation
- Avoiding mistakes
- A lawyer’s secret weapon: Time stamping on YOUR documentation
- Social networking and indirect care
- Timeline chronology and mapping the case
Electronic Nursing Documentation
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Meaningful Use
- Risky electronic documentation practices
- Charting by exception
- Dangers of email, social networking, and texting
- Should you make a late chart entry? Or not …?
- Avoid the hazards of dropdown boxes in your medical record system
Electronic Medical Record Strategies
- Time management
- Liability
- Software knowledge/Informatics
- Does the case have merit?
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
- Plaintiff deposition testimony
Documentation: When Things Go Wrong
- Compliance
- Unsafe processes
- Regulations
- Incident reporting
- Adverse events and risk factors
- When to ask/demand help from a supervisor
- When the patient must transfer out
- Standards that are within standards
- Deviations, real or perceived
- Errors of omission and commission
- Communicating clearly
- Defense deposition testimony
Avoiding Risky Documentation
- Credible evidence
- Avoiding ambiguity
- Recording events objectively
- Late entries and correcting errors
What if the Worst Happens
- Duty/Breach of Duty
- Nurse Practice Act
- State Board of Nursing
- Depositions
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Nurse Educators
- Legal Nurse Consultants
- Risk Management
- Paralegals
- Attorneys
Copyright :
12/10/2019
Intensive Training Course – Day 2
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze how the nursing standards of care can come under scrutiny.
- Evaluate authoritative sources.
- Distinguish between a care plan and the care planning process.
- Evaluate a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Defend how documentation is used to decide if you are innocent or guilty in a lawsuit.
- Propose how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Apply 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.
- Develop defense and plaintiff allegations, in response to the same scenario.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to reduce litigation exposure.
- Distinguish common documentation mistakes and how to avoid/correct them
- Evaluate facility policy and procedures for potential risk.
- Extrapolate the litigation timeline
- Formulate deposition questions as the plaintiff and/or defense teams.
- Practice litigation language during mock depositions.
Copyright :
12/10/2019
Intensive Training Course – Day 3
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze how the nursing standards of care can come under scrutiny.
- Evaluate authoritative sources.
- Distinguish between a care plan and the care planning process.
- Evaluate a strategic nursing documentation system.
- Defend how documentation is used to decide if you are innocent or guilty in a lawsuit.
- Propose how to prevent risky behavior when using social media and other forms of electronic communication.
- Apply 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.
- Develop defense and plaintiff allegations, in response to the same scenario.
- Integrate the correct practices into your documentation to reduce litigation exposure.
- Distinguish common documentation mistakes and how to avoid/correct them
- Evaluate facility policy and procedures for potential risk.
- Extrapolate the litigation timeline
- Formulate deposition questions as the plaintiff and/or defense teams.
- Practice litigation language during mock depositions.
Copyright :
12/10/2019
Legal Risks for Nurses: Protect Yourself from the Courtroom!
Imagine that you and your manager/administrator have been served with a lawsuit related to the stay of a patient that you vaguely recall some 2-3 years ago.
The failures listed in the complaint are voluminous, covering some 3 pages. You are both stone-cold petrified. What went wrong? What am I being accused of? Why me? How am I supposed to remember any of this? How can this happen to me, a stellar nurse of 20 years?
This recording will address all of this and provide you with pertinent information to prevent this scenario in the first place!
Healthcare today is rife with litigation against nurses. There is more accountability, reliability, autonomy, and liability. The rate of nurses becoming part of lawsuits is steadily on the rise.
Watch legal nurse consultant Rachel Cartwright-Vanzant, MS, RN, CNS, LHRN, LNCC, for this critical and self-protective look into very real legal risks for nurses.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the prevalence of nursing mistakes, with legal consequences.
- Analyze common legal pitfalls in nursing practice.
- Demonstrate the three major areas the plaintiff must prove: existence of duty, breach of duty and injury.
- Assess documentation samples to avoid litigation and regulatory deficiencies.
- Distinguish a nurses’ trial appearance and presentation, to contribute beneficially to the case.
- Appraise strategies to avoid high risk errors related to falls, wounds, abuse … and more.
Outline
Nursing Liability and Negligence
- Nursing standards
- Duties
- Supervision
- Delegation
- Multiple case studies
Nurse Practice Acts
- Changes in scope of practice
- Requirements every nurse must know!
- Reporting abuse/neglect
- Patient abandonment
Common Errors and Claims Staffing
- Assignments
- Rights when floating
- Unsafe staffing
What should you do if you make an error?
Should you buy malpractice insurance?
- Does it make you a target?
- Will your employer’s coverage protect you?
Documentation
- The do’s and don’ts of good charting
- Problems with EHRs
- Real charting examples and solutions
Confidentiality
- HIPAA myths
- Nurses fired and prosecuted for breaches in confidentiality and posting online
Informed Consent
- Who has authority to consent?
- Capacity to consent?
- Plus, DNRs, End of life issues, and more
Boards of Nursing
- Most frequent charges against nurses
- Your rights
- When do you need an attorney?
- What can you do to protect your license?
- Case examples
Nurse Whistleblower Protection Laws Target Audience
- Nurses
- Advanced Practice Nurses
- Legal Nurse Consultants
- Risk Management
Copyright :
11/07/2019