August 24 & 25, 2023 — Live Online Event or Flexible Self-Study Option
Short Staffing — Documentation — Chart Reviews — Board Complaints
Testifying — How to Become a LNC — & more!
Testifying — How to Become a LNC — & more!
Even the most experienced, competent nurses make mistakes.
Your work is fast-paced and requires quick thinking. During your shift, you feel the overwhelming responsibilities. When the pace gets chaotic, mistakes can happen. When mistakes lead to inadvertent patient harm, it can become an absolute nightmare for the nurse or nurse practitioner. It's essential that you know how you can protect yourself — and your license.
The 2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference will be an unbelievable event — guaranteed to advance your knowledge — and decrease your risk! We have 13 legal authorities lined up to deliver the details you need NOW — to practice defensively. This powerful team of highly respected experts includes Nurse Attorneys, Legal Nurse Consultants & Medicolegal Physicians!
Feel more confident after you unlock the secrets to stay out of the courtroom! Earn up to 28 CE Hours and dig deep into Nursing Malpractice, Actual Patient Chart Reviews, Demonstrative Evidence, Documentation Protection, Short Staffing Implications, Testifying Under Oath, Legal Risks & Mental Health Crises & more! But that's not all… you'll earn your Certificate in Legal Nursing and discover how you can Become a Legal Nurse Consultant!
2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference
Live Online Event: August 24 & 25
—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
$2,039.86
Total Value—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
Just $399.99 Today
Earn up to 28 CE Hours! Click here for CE Credit breakdown.
Can't attend? Click here to register for the Self-Study option.
Nursing is a profession steeped in fear…
You know what it's like to go home after your shift and wonder what you forgot to do, follow up on, report off, or document. When your patient assignment is heavy, and the nursing team is stretched thin… errors can happen. Errors can have legal consequences, especially in the litigious society we live in.
In just two days of comprehensive live training, you'll get the latest legal trends and the best risk reduction precautions to immediately incorporate into practice:- How Increased Workloads Expose Your Legal Risk
- A Dangerous Combination: Burnout & Disconnection at Work
- What Would a Reasonable Nurse Do (Due Care)
- Legal Pitfalls in a Mental Health Crisis
- Prevent a Documentation Disaster
- Explore a Lucrative Legal Nurse Consultant Side Hustle
- Learn Testifying Strategies - for Trials and Depositions
- Board of Nursing Licensing Protection
- And more!
Summit Highlights
- Live Online Event: August 24 & 25, 2023 -or- Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
- Prevent a stressful and traumatic legal event
- Earn your Legal Nurse Certificate
- Advice from 13 legal authorities — Nurse Attorneys, Legal Nurse Consultants & Medicolegal Physicians!
- Earn up to 28.0 CE Hours
- Includes 9 FREE bonus videos to watch at your convenience
- Learn the very latest coming out of the courtroom — and the practice implications for YOU
2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference
Just $399.99 Today
Live Online Event: August 24 & 25
—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
$2,039.86
Total Value—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
Just $399.99 Today
Earn up to 28 CE Hours! Click here for CE Credit breakdown.
Can't attend? Click here to register for the Self-Study option.
Flexibility to meet your learning needs! Registration options include:
Experience the Live Online Summit
August 24 & 25, 2023
August 24 & 25, 2023
- Earn up to 28.0 CE Hours
- Get your questions answered by leading experts
- Virtual networking with colleagues across the country
- Video access available for 30 days afterwards
Can't Attend Live?
Watch the Video Training Course
Watch the Video Training Course
- Earn up to 28.0 CE Hours
- Watch the videos at your own pace and schedule
- Unlimited access to all summit sessions (live and bonus)
- Completely flexible learning for your busy schedule
2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference
Just $399.99 Today
Live Online Event: August 24 & 25
—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
$2,039.86
Total Value—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
Just $399.99 Today
Earn up to 28 CE Hours! Click here for CE Credit breakdown.
Can't attend? Click here to register for the Self-Study option.
Live Sessions — August 24 & 25
Join your trailblazing expert presenters who walk the talk. They see nurses and nurse practitioners trying to clear their names and reputations from malpractice claims. Not only will our legal experts synthesize the latest coming out of the courtroom, but they will also deliver tips so that you can feel a greater sense of control over the patient care you deliver.
August 24 | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Central
Protecting Yourself & Your License While Enduring Trauma:
Tips, Tools and Resources for the Healthcare Worker
Tips, Tools and Resources for the Healthcare Worker
Irnise F. Williams RN, JD, ESQ, is a healthcare and regulatory compliance lawyer with a nursing background, which provides a deeper understanding of healthcare practices and patient care. Attorney Williams will deliver information on:
- Practical steps that healthcare professionals can take to protect themselves from harm in the workplace
- Guidance on leaving a toxic work environment
- The importance of protecting your mental health following burnout and traumatic experiences
August 24 | 11:15 AM – 1:15 PM Central
Dissection Nursing Malpractice & Due Care: What Would a Reasonable Nurse Do?
Elizabeth Sheffield, JD, MSN, MA, BSN, CRNA, earned a doctorate of nurse anesthesia practice, a Doctor of Jurisprudence, and a MA in clinical bioethics. As a practicing attorney, Elizabeth specialized in medical malpractice and has experience as both a testifying and consulting expert witness. Attorney Sheffield will share:
- A malpractice case review to learn from real-life errors
- Increased knowledge of adjudicated medical practice cases
- Ways to decrease the risk of legal actions
August 24 | 1:45 PM – 3:45 PM Central
Patient Chart Reviews — with Actual Documentation Mistakes
Rachel Henderson, PhD, MS, RN, HCRM, is a Healthcare Risk Manager, practiced as an inpatient clinical nurse specialist, and owns a legal consulting business, Medical Legal Concepts, LLC. She is an expert in the healthcare industry with 38 years of clinical, consulting, and testifying experience. Dr. Henderson's session will focus on:
- Drugs more commonly associated with adverse events and medication errors
- Clinical examples of prescriptive deviations from the standard of practice
- Guidance from agencies concerned with the prevention of and response to medication errors
August 24 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Central
Legal Pitfalls in a Mental Health Crisis
Lois A. Fenner McBride, RN, MS, JD, Attorney at Law, is a Certified Clinical Specialist (Psychiatric) and a founding member of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys. Her law practice focuses on medical and healthcare litigation and consulting: including medical malpractice, wrongful death, risk management, and Professional Boards/Licensures. Attorney Fenner will cover:
- The duty to warn/protect in violent situations (assault and battery)
- Can we prevent suicide or is our role to safeguard the at-risk patient?
- Professional responsibilities regarding abuse scenarios
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August 25 | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Central
How to Become a Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)
Rosale Lobo, PhD, RN, LNC, is a legal nurse consultant who works with medical malpractice attorneys to support their pursuit of justice for clients. Dr. Lobo has a passion for educating nurses on how they can protect themselves from undue litigation predicaments. Discover:
- How nurses are needed to investigate, educate, and decode information that brings clarity to sensitive heathcare-related situations
- A day in the life of an LNC
- Ways to eliminate rookie mistakes and navigate the expected roadblocks
August 25 | 11:15 AM – 1:15 PM Central
Digital Legal Matters to Make or Break Your Nursing Career
Jaimee Gerrie MSN, BSN, RN, LNC, CPPS, NCPMT, is a Legal Nurse Consultant, expert, and mediator working with attorneys and health care organizations on medically related cases. She has experience as a testifying and non-testifying expert witness in relation to the standard of nursing practice.
- Analyze legal and regulatory issues emerging from the use of technology in practice
- Determine digital skills needed to avoid pitfalls in nursing practice
- Explain how standards of care apply to the use of digital technology
2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference
Just $399.99 Today
Live Online Event: August 24 & 25
—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
$2,039.86
Total Value—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
Just $399.99 Today
Earn up to 28 CE Hours! Click here for CE Credit breakdown.
Can't attend? Click here to register for the Self-Study option.
PLUS, when you register today, you'll
receive 9 FREE video bonus sessions! A $1,139 value!
receive 9 FREE video bonus sessions! A $1,139 value!
Legal Risks in Nursing Documentation —
Use Extreme Caution When Skimming the Facts
Use Extreme Caution When Skimming the Facts
Rosale Lobo, PhD, RN, LNC, is a legal nurse consultant who works with medical malpractice attorneys to support their pursuit of justice for clients. Dr. Lobo has a passion for educating nurses on how they can protect themselves from undue litigation predicaments. Discover:
- How attorneys view nursing documentation
- Why skimming the facts can cause irreversible damage to your license
- 10 facts about being a nurse litigant
Short Staffing: Legal Risks & Implications for Nursing Practice
Deborah Ward, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, LNC, is a nurse practitioner with extensive experience and expertise in both the clinical and legal arenas. Deborah provides full case development services for her legal clients, both plaintiff and defense, for a wide range of medical-related cases. Deborah will help you to:
- Protect your nursing practice from legal risk during times of increased workloads
- Identify nursing practices to decrease legal exposure when short staffed
- Avoid concerning deviations from nursing standards
Mitigating Legal Risk in Wound Care
Tisha Barzyk, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CWS, PLNC, is a Certified Wound Care Nurse – Advanced Practice and works as an advanced wound care provider and performs expert witness services for wound care malpractice cases. As a legal nurse consultant, Dr. Barzyk provides opinions and expert testimony on wound care malpractice cases. Learn how to:
- Mitigate legal risk when providing care to patients with acute and chronic wounds
- Recognize common breaches in wound standard of care and the practices to help avoid them
- Identify the most common wound types in malpractice claims
An Impaired Nurse… A License at Risk
Laurie Elston, BSN, JD, is a Nurse Attorney with over 20 years of experience as an attorney. She has represented healthcare providers in malpractice and disciplinary cases throughout her career, has been a Municipal Court Judge Pro Tem, and teaches a nationwide Legal Nurse Consulting Training Course. Highlights for Attorney Elston's session include:
- Explain your responsibility if you suspect another nurse is abusing or diverting drugs
- Identify programs that offer protection from licensing charges by the Board of Nursing
- Choose whether impaired colleague concerns should be reported to your Board of Nursing and/or employer
Healthcare Serial Killers: Detect Clinical Perpetrators & Intervene for Patients
Pamela D. Tabor, DNP-Forensics, AFN-BC, serves as a consultant and expert witness in the private sector and for the Department of Defense in military trials. Dr. Tabor holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a forensic focus, is a Board-Certified Advance Forensic Nurse, and is a Fellow of the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners. She will share:
- Analysis of case studies to develop an understanding of patient victimology
- Opportunities to detect and intervene in cases of Healthcare Serial Killers
- Methods utilized by healthcare serial killers - and their motivations
Testifying Under Oath — Trials and Depositions
Cyndi Zarbano, MSN-Ed, CCRN, CMSRN, LNC, currently works for Mayo Clinic in Minnesota continuing her passion for bedside nursing in critical care. She earned her Legal Nurse Consultant training through the Vickie Milazzo Institute in 2008 and has worked on over 200 cases for both plaintiff and defense, including testifying expert work on many cases. Experience Cyndi's incredible insights:
- Real life journey through a deposition and jury trial process
- Do's and don'ts of a deposition
- Legal nurse consultant's role during trials
Demonstrative Evidence & Neuroimaging in Medicolegal Cases
Daniel Cousins, MD, is a Harvard, Yale, and Columbia-trained dual-boarded expert in diagnostic radiology and medicolegal radiologist. He is a pioneer in 4D demonstrative evidence, testifies as an expert in front of juries, and is a clinical radiology director in practice. Experience Dr. Cousin's expertise as you:
- Recognize pathophysiology that imply causation
- Analyze how 3D/4D exhibit technology can defend against false allegations
- Evaluate how demonstrative evidence helps understand actual injuries
Reduce Prescriber Liability Risk
Rachel Henderson, PhD, MS, RN, HCRM, is a healthcare risk manager, owns a successful legal consulting business, and is an expert with 38 years of clinical and testifying experience. Dr. Henderson will help to reduce your liability exposure regarding high-risk areas of practice, including:
- Prescriptive authority
- Medication errors
- Adverse events
- Deviations from standards of practice
Documentation & Practice Pitfalls for Med-Surg Nurses
Pam Collins, MSN, CMSRN, RN-BC, has extensive nursing experience which includes work as a staff and charge nurse. She continues to serve as an expert witness for plaintiff and defense medical malpractice cases. You can expect to learn:
- Patient assessment and monitoring techniques – performed with increased precision
- Documentation strategies for high-risk patient situations
- Current trends in med-surg nursing malpractice
2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference
Just $399.99 Today
Live Online Event: August 24 & 25
—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
$2,039.86
Total Value—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
Just $399.99 Today
Earn up to 28 CE Hours! Click here for CE Credit breakdown.
Can't attend? Click here to register for the Self-Study option.
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2023 Legal Nurse Certificate Conference
Just $399.99 Today
Live Online Event: August 24 & 25
—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
$2,039.86
Total Value—or—
Access the Training Course afterward to watch on your own schedule
Just $399.99 Today
Earn up to 28 CE Hours! Click here for CE Credit breakdown.
Can't attend? Click here to register for the Self-Study option.