Full Course Description
Protecting Yourself & Your License While Enduring Trauma
When you are in direct patient care, experiencing burnout, trauma, or not feeling valued for who you are, you begin to disassociate and disconnect from your work. That is dangerous, unhealthy, and not why you entered the profession. Most nurses have not been allowed to identify the trauma they have experienced at work or consider how secondary trauma impacts them in and outside direct patient care. This presentation discusses your primary concerns regarding protecting your mental and physical health while protecting your license.
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Objectives
- Discuss the different types of trauma that healthcare professionals may experience during their work.
- Identify practical steps that healthcare professionals can take to protect themselves from harm in the workplace.
- Explain the importance of protecting one’s professional license and reputation.
- Determine when it may be necessary to leave a toxic work environment and the potential risks and benefits of doing so.
- Analyze long-term solutions for addressing systemic issues within the healthcare industry.
Outline
The Evolution of Healthcare
- Changes in regulatory expectations and requirements
- The impact of more work with less support
Types of Trauma
- Types of trauma that nurses endure while in direct patient care
- Physical
- Mental
- Psychological
Steps to Protect Yourself
- Systems in place to help nurses protect themselves and their licenses
- Documentation
- Human resources
- Internal complaint systems
- External systems
Steps to Protect Your License
- Steps to care for themselves, as you process trauma
- Professionalism
- PTO
- EAP
- Following Up
When to Leave a Toxic Environment
- When you are in a toxic work culture that no longer benefits you
- Preserve relationships while focusing on their mental health and needs
Long Term Solutions
- Identify ways to create change
- Legislative advocacy and politics
- Community engagement
- Propose solutions for mental health resources within your organization
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
08/24/2023
Dissecting Nursing Malpractice & Due Care: What Would a Reasonable Nurse Do in the Situation
Nurses do care very much about their practice, but what is Due Care? Due Care is the legal term for what a reasonable nurse would do in similar circumstances. Due Care is just one of the confusing legal terms that will be clarified in this seminar. Understanding the language and components of medical malpractice not only increases awareness of legal responsibilities but may also decrease the risk of legal actions by improving both patient safety and care.
All individuals make mistakes. But in healthcare, the errors can have devasting results, not only for the patients, but also providers themselves. One way to understand and possibly avoid medical errors is to dissect and review medical malpractice cases. Reviewing cases allows for a nonjudgmental avenue to understand how not to make the same error and to reflect on one’s own practice.
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Objectives
- Understand the elements that give rise to malpractice.
- Distinguish the difference between negligence and malpractice.
- Explain legal terms and the elements of malpractice.
- Identify the most common causes of medical malpractice.
- Determine how to dissect an adjudicated medal malpractice case.
Outline
Criminal
Civil
- Negligence
- Medical Malpractice/Nursing Malpractice
- Duty
- Breach of Standard of Care (SOC)
- Who determines SOC?
- Causation
- Damages
- Gross Negligence
- Punitive Damages
Informed Consent
- Competency
- Capacity
- Exceptions Res Ipas Loguitur
- MICRA
Discovery
- Complaint
- Interrogatories, Depositions
- Trial Settlement
- Increased Risks
- National Data Bank
- Presentation of Adjudicated Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
- Second Victim/Medical Malpractice Stress Syndrome
Insurance
- Medical Malpractice
- License
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
08/24/2023
Patient Chart Reviews – with Actual Documentation Mistakes
Patient safety is one of the paramount priorities in clinical settings. Patient safety is one of many reasons formal clinical documentation improvement programs were developed. The best way to prevent a documentation disaster is by recognizing the most frequent documentation errors and putting procedures in place to prevent them. The top four documentation mistakes are mixed messages, misuse of copy and paste in the electronic health record, incomplete or missing documentation, and misplaced documentation. High-quality patient documentation is crucial for ensuring quality care, continuity of care, and patient safety. Learning from the mistakes of others is effective in changing documentation practice patterns.
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Objectives
- Compare and contrast a medical error and a medical mistake.
- Discuss components of a medical malpractice claim.
- List outcomes associated with proper medical documentation.
- Explain common errors in medical records.
- Analyze documentation errors and mistakes and cite appropriate corrective actions.
Outline
Medical Errors v. Medical Mistakes
- differentiate between medical errors and medical mistakes
- Examples of medical errors
- Examples of medical mistakes
- What is medical malpractice?
What is Medical Malpractice?
- Key elements of a malpractice cause of action lawsuit
- Define Standard of Care
- Acts of omission
- Liability Exposure
Proper Medical Documentation
- Communicate with other medical personnel
- Minimize exposure to risk management
- Documents, quality measures, and CMS hospital indicators
- Provides proper reimbursement
Common Errors in Medical Records
- Errors in transcription
- Misuse of abbreviations
- Insufficient documentation
- Ignoring crucial information
- Incorrect information entry
- Other medical errors
Examples of Documentation Errors and Mistakes Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
08/24/2023
Legal Pitfalls in a Mental Health Crisis
Mental health crises are contributing to rapid expansions of our roles as nurses. Nurses are functioning more independently with increased responsibilities and potential for legal risks. Violence, anxiety, depression, gender, substance use, isolation, suicide and other mental health issues are prevalent daily. These issues impact nursing care interventions, regardless of your environment. This seminar will show you how to continue to help the people you have been trained to help while still protecting yourself from legal pitfalls. Case studies with specific examples will be discussed providing you with “hands on” strategies for implementing safe, ethical and effective care, minimizing your legal risks exposure.
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Objectives
- Identify the nurse’s responsibilities relating to mental health issues regarding the duty to warn/protect.
- Explore the nurse’s obligations relating to mental health issues and duty to report.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of substance use disorder.
- Delineate the nurse’s role in safeguarding a suicidal patient.
Outline
Violence: Assault, Battery & Homicide
- Duty to warn/protect
- Caselaw and statutory requirements
- Obligations and clients’ expectations re; confidentiality
- Why warn or disclose?
- Voluntary and involuntary commitment
- Case studies
- Potential liabilities
- Civil-breach of standard of practice or care
- Defamation – libel or slander
- Licensure administrative ramifications
- Employment: breach of contract, policies, procedures, protocols
- Loss of credibility
- Guilt – conflicted feelings
Abuse
- Duty to report
- Types of abuse: Physical, emotional, sexual, neglect, and financial
- Statutory regulations and mandates/procedure, policies, protocols
- Case studies
- Potential liabilities
- Immunity: Report/failure to report
- Criminal – loss of freedom, fines, public record (PBJ or PBV or SS)
- Defamation
- Licensure administrative ramifications
- Employment: Breach of contract, procedures, policies, protocols
Substance Use Disorder
- Why the change “drug abuse”
- Some Risk Factors
- Social – desire for acceptance, attempt to feel more at ease in various settings
- Stress-minimize discomfort
- Psychological triggers, anxiety disorders, trauma, depression, isolation
- Peer pressure – everyone else is “doing it”
- Social media
- Genetics
- Family/environmental, enabling, learned behaviors
- Case Studies
Suicide
- Can we prevent the suicide or safeguard the at risk person?
- Hits close to home (Dr. Lorna Breen Act, March 18, 2022: taking care of me while focusing on the we
- Some Risk Factors
- Individual
- Relationship
- Community
- Societal
- Protective Factors Against Suicide
- Individual
- Relationship
- Community
- Societal
- Warning signs
- Case studies:
- Potential liabilities
- Did you miss the signs?
- Did you document effectively?
- Did you do enough in a timely manner-guilt?
- Breach of standard of practice or care
- Licensure administrative ramifications
- Employment, policies, procedures, protocols
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
08/24/2023
How to Become a LNC
The field of Legal Nurse Consulting (LNC) is as deep and wide as you can imagine. LNCs are essential to any situation involving healthcare record interpretation. Among other things, nurses are needed to investigate, educate, and decode information that brings clarity to sensitive health care related situations. This dynamic role can include, but is not limited to, working with plaintiffs, defendants, vendors, or state departments. There are so many ways we can share our valuable knowledge as a legal nurse consultant. You can be an employee or entrepreneur and have the flexibility to make your own hours. No joke!
Have you ever wondered how nurses break into this specialty? Or what a day in the life of an LNC looks like? In just 2 hours, you can skip the line, eliminate rookie mistakes, and navigate the expected roadblocks. Join me as I walk you through the robust lifestyle of becoming a Legal Nurse Consultant and all the opportunities that it brings. Start your quest today.
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Objectives
- Create a framework for the role and responsibilities of a legal nurse consultant.
- Evaluate options to guide a professional plan of action.
- Analyze the components in sections for success.
- Apply concepts to action steps for forward momentum.
- Understand how to navigate around perceived obstacles.
Outline
Start With the End in Mind
- Big Picture, Little Details
- How You Get There Does Matter
- Understanding Your Locus of Control
- Formal vs. Informal Methods of Attainment
- Self-Efficacy and Firm Size
- Door Knocking, Shaking Hands, and Showing Up
Business to Business Relationships
- Mission and Vision
- Pro Bono, Fee Schedules, & Retainers
- Communication Through Articulation
- Representing, Advocating, Assuming the Role Organizing Your Stacks
- Uncovering and Communicating Your Business Relationships
- Eating Your Learning Curves
The Case Hits Your Desk
- Every Word is Important
- Finding Your Standards of Care
- Reports, Edits, and Presentations
- Timeline Chronologies/Essays/References
- Research, Proof, Accountability, and Push Back
Finding the Seeds to Grow Your Quest
- The Plethora of Choices are Limitless
- Plaintiff, Defense, Neither, or Both
- Attending DMEs/Depositions/Trial/Travel
Standard of Care Using Hydroponics
- Gathering your authoritative sources
- Be mindful of your opinion vs the facts
- Using your expertise to season the scenario
- Sharing information to various listeners
- Sculpting your presentation with a microscope
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
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Copyright :
08/25/2023
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. Jaimee has a passion for helping nurses reduce liability in their professional practice, which is why she has put together this program to help share her insights regarding technology related missteps that other nurses have made. Join Jaimee to take away key information so you are able to safely avoid digital technology legal and regulatory pitfalls in practice.
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Objectives
- Evaluate various forms of digital technologies that are used in nursing practice.
- Analyze legal and regulatory issues emerging from the use of technology in nursing practice.
- Determine digital skills needed to avoid legal and regulatory pitfalls in nursing practice.
- Explain how nursing standards apply to the use of digital technology.
Outline
Digital Technologies in Nursing Practice
- Artificial Intelligence
- Virtual Reality
- Robots
- Monitoring Systems
- Telemedicine
- Reporting Systems
- Social Media
- Automated Cabinetry
- Electronic Health Records
- Sensors, alarms, and ambient technologies
- Everyday Technology such as cell phones, emails, apps
- Simulation
Legal and Regulatory Issues Emerging From the Use of Technology in Nursing Practice
- Data Privacy and Confidentiality
- Nursing and Care Documentation
- Quality and Reliability
- Injuries: Patients and Staff
- Fraud
- Reimbursement and Payment
- Digital Literacy
- Access: Broad Ban
- Barriers to practice
- Nursing Education
Digital Skills Needed to Avoid Legal and Regulatory Pitfalls
- Data Entry
- Analytical Ability
- Clinical Judgment
- Computer literacy
- Attention to Detail
- Knowledge of Policy and Regulations
- Problem Solving
- Equipment Management
- Safety and Quality Standards
- Nursing Process
How Nursing Standards Apply to the Use of Digital Technology
- Where to locate standards
- ANA Scopes and Standards of Practice
- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Outcome Identification
- Planning
- Implementation – Coordination of Care & Health Teaching
- Evaluation
- Ethics
- Advocacy
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Education
- Scholarly Inquiry
- Quality of Practice
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
08/25/2023
Demonstrative Evidence & Neuroimaging in Medicolegal Cases
See for yourself why 3D and 4D demonstrative evidence is such a powerful medicolegal tool. Many cases come down to objective imaging evidence, yet the jury does not have training or experience with, for example, interpretation of cross-sectional neuroanatomy imaging on MRI. New demonstrative evidence technology is the future of medicolegal work as it helps to prove the case merit for either plaintiff or defense, and do so in a way that is tangible to a lay audience.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine 8 indicators of chronicity and argue against causation.
- Recognize pathophysiology that can imply causation.
- Evaluate how 3D/4D technology can gain credibility and keep the audience's attention.
- Analyze how 3D/4D exhibit technology can strengthen the understanding of actual injuries and defend against any false allegations.
Outline
3D/4D Technology as Demonstrative Evidence
- Used to strengthen your understanding of the actual injuries
- Defend against any false allegations
- Adds value to your professional practice in accident reconstruction
- Gain credibility while increasing and maintaining attention of the viewer/jury
Billable codes for 3D/4D
The Power of a Visual Narration
- Axial lumbar loading
- Magnetic field strength and hybrid magnets, the best of both worlds
- Room construction and RF signal
- Why slice thickness matters
- Patient comfort matters for image quality
- Motion artifact, the enemy of radiologists
Exhibit Presentation Optimization
- Glossies vs projector vs screen
- Advantages of dynamic tour vs static image
- Realtime radiologist input and collaboration
- Radiologist medicolegal experience and credentials
- Why radiologist honesty is paramount
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
06/01/2023
Legal Risks in Nursing Documentation – Use Extreme Caution When Skimming the Facts
The nurse was so busy that day. You know how it goes... She didn’t even have time to eat.
It was the day shift and there was a flurry of orders coming in and some were being changed soon after. She had to admit, it was difficult to keep up. She doesn’t recall all the details, but she does remember how scared she felt when the family came in complaining, questioning every medication and treatment she was administering, and fishing through the trash can for discarded “evidence”. Then they asked to speak with patient relations. It was another 2 years before she was called into a lawyer’s office to discuss the care she provided that day.
It is no secret there is an intimate connection between what we chart, how we care for patients, and patient outcomes. What is that connection? How does what you chart - or don’t chart - about a patient become the facts in a nursing malpractice case? Mistakes and near misses happen often. You know there is only so much you can do in a shift. Rosale Lobo PhD, RN, LNCC, will give you expert tips on how to decrease the legal risks that nurses all too often encounter.
Program Information
Objectives
- Recognize why skimming the facts can damage your license.
- Dissect the connection between your charted words and the truth.
- Examine the lawyers view on your documentation.
- Transform your understanding of “trust but verify”.
- Analyze legal cases to become an expert at charting.
- Compare your previous charting with your future charting.
Outline
The Truth About Documentation (that nursing school never taught you)
- The care plan: Facts vs. fiction
- Clinical application and critical thinking: What the attorneys don’t want you to know
- Learning to think defensively
10 Facts About Being a Nurse Litigant
- The emotional turmoil associated with litigation
- The scenario that lasts a professional lifetime
- There is such a thing as being prepared for questioning
Nursing's Role in Increasing Safe and Effective Healthcare Delivery
- The increasing demand for accountability
- The regulations that effect their bottom line - and our sanity
- Using the correct “tone” to communicate your message
Target Audience
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Educators
Copyright :
02/27/2018
Short Staffing: Legal Risks & Implications for Nursing Practice
Do you as a nurse/clinician ever feel overwhelmed by your workload?
Has short staffing and increased workload ever negatively impacted your nursing/clinical practice, exposing you to legal risk?
The current and projected nursing shortage and short staffing rates present a continuing and long-term problem for all levels of nursing professionals. Despite the prior knowledge of nursing shortage projections, the COVID-19 pandemic only aggravated staffing complications. Aside from negatively impacting the health and well-being of nurses, short staffing can also expose nursing professionals to increased legal risk.
Take a look at how staffing shortages and increased workload can place your nursing practice at legal risk and identify ways to improve and prevent yourself from landing in the courtroom.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate current factors affecting nursing shortage and short staffing.
- Analyze how short staffing and increased workload affect nursing processes, patient care, and safety.
- Identify deviations in nursing practice that increase legal risk/exposure related to short staffing and increased workload.
- Formulate and apply practices to improve nursing care and reduce legal risk. tify ways to improve and prevent yourself from landing in the courtroom.
Outline
Background and Factors Affecting Nursing Shortage
- History of Nursing Shortage
- Projections and Factors Affecting Future Nursing Shortage
Short Staffing Effects on Patient Safety and Care
- Relationship between workload and patient safety
Legal Risks of Short Staffing/Increased Workload
- Ways in which nursing professionals deviate their nursing practice that exposes them to legal risk.
- Scope of Practice
- Assessment
- Documentation
- Errors in Treatment/Patient Care & Management
- Communication
- RNs & NPs
- Inpatient Setting
- Outpatient Setting
How to Improve Nursing Practice and Protect from Legal Risk
- Ways in which nursing professionals can improve their nursing practice and protect from legal risk.
- Education
- Scope of Practice
- Assessment
- Documentation
- Patient Care & Management
- Communication
- Time Management
- Leadership
- RNs & NPs
- Inpatient Setting
- Outpatient Setting
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
06/05/2023
Healthcare Serial Killers
Healthcare has more serial killers than all other professions combined. Through analysis of case studies develop an understanding of victimology, and perpetrators methods and motive. Develop educational guidelines and interventions to detect and intervene in cases of Healthcare Serial Killers.
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Objectives
- Apply new knowledge and understanding of healthcare serial killers.
- Appraise actual cases involving healthcare serial killers.
- Analyze the perpetrators and victims involved in healthcare serial killer cases.
- Appraise the methodology and motivations of healthcare serial killers.
Outline
- Learn how to recognize behaviors of healthcare serial killers 
- Dissect case studies of actual healthcare serial killers 
- Methods utilized by healthcare serial killers - and their motivations 
- Victimology commonalities
- Educational and interventional strategies 
Target Audience
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09/07/2022
Mitigating Legal Risk in Wound Care
This wound care focused legal presentation explains what the standard of care is and how it applies to patients receiving wound care in the acute and post-acute care settings. The presentation includes a detailed review of the applicable standard of care as it relates to skin and wounds from admission to discharge. You will learn what constitutes the standard of care and what interventions can be implemented to prevent breaching that standard of care. You will learn common legal terminology used in medical malpractice claims and review the most common wound related plaintiff complaints included on claims. The presentation includes discussion of facility wound care policy and protocols and helps you identify the necessary education for facility staff and the required education, training, and scope of practice considerations when reviewing or developing wound care team roles. There is information about best practice and use of the evidence base, with guidelines for wound assessment, diagnosis, documentation, and acceptable treatments. You will gain valuable knowledge of the essential skin and wound care supplies and the skills necessary to ensure you are able to provide patient treatment within the applicable standard of care. There is a comprehensive analysis of the four most common wound types which appear in malpractice claims and focus items to help you mitigate malpractice risk. Finally, there is a thorough review of facility acquired pressure injuries which are the number one reason for medical malpractice claims with interventions to help you successfully defend a malpractice claim including use of an unavoidable defense.
Program Information
Objectives
- Discover interventions to mitigate legal risk when providing care to patients with acute and chronic wounds in the acute and post-acute care settings.
- Learn what the “standard of care” is and how it can impact you and your facility if a patient files a claim for medical malpractice.
- Recognize common breaches in wound standard of care and practices to help avoid them.
- Learn the most common wound types identified in malpractice claims and discover interventions to maintain standard of care compliance.
- Be able to identify wound tissue types and learn common terminology to prevent inaccurate wound classification and documentation.
- Identify staff education needs and the wound care team roles required to meet the standard of care and scope of practice laws.
- Learn what supplies and skills are essential for best practice and evidence based wound care treatments.
Outline
What is Standard of Care?
Skin & Wound Standard of Care Overview
- Admission Assessment & Risk Evaluation
- Comprehensive Plan of Care
- Prevention Measures
- Nursing Care Plans
- Nutrition
- Monitoring
- Discharge Responsibilities
Breaches in Skin & Wound Standard of Care
- Legal Terminology
- Most Common Plaintiff Complaints
Wound Care Policies & Protocols
Staff Education & Training
The Wound Care Team
Standard of Care for Wounds
- Best Practice Wound Care & The Evidence Base
- Wound Assessment
- Wound Etiology | Diagnosis
- Wound Documentation
- Wound Treatments
- Essential Skin & Wound Care Supplies
Most Common Wound Types and the Current Standard of Care
- Pressure Injuries
- Pressure Injury or Moisture Associated Skin Damage
- Pressure Injury or Acute Skin Failure/Kennedy Ulcer
- Standard of Care - Avoidable v. Unavoidable
- Focus Items to Mitigate Risk
- Facility Acquired Injuries
- Diabetic | Neuropathic Ulcerations
- Standard of Care
- Focus Items to Mitigate Risk
- Venous Ulcerations
- Standard of Care
- Focus Items to Mitigate Risk
- Arterial Ulcerations
- Standard of Care
- Focus Items to Mitigate Risk
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
05/26/2023
Nursing Documentation Pitfalls
"If you didn’t chart it, you didn’t do it" may sound over-rated, but in a court of law, this can make or break the case! This session will reveal strategies to help make your documentation court ready. You will learn the most common documentation errors that can change the course of a lawsuit, how to accurately reflect the care that you provided, and of course what should not be documented. Regardless of your critical care role, this session will help to ensure that your documentation holds up in court!
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze common sources of lawsuits for healthcare professionals.
- Evaluate the most significant pitfalls in nursing documentation.
- Implement strategies to perform legally defensible documentation.
- Practice how to document high-risk patient situations.
Outline
- Current Lawsuit Trends
- Specialties at higher risk for litigation
- Top sources of nursing malpractice/negligence
- Common Pitfalls of Documentation
- Vagueness
- Omissions
- Words to use/avoid
- Late entries
- Inconsistency
- How to document high-risk situations and conversations
- Patient refusal
- MD/Provider notification
- Discharge education
- Electronic Documentation: Dos and Don’ts
- Proper use of flowsheets
- When to add narrative notes
- Proper timing of entries
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
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11/09/2022
Reduce Prescriber Liability Risk
The integration of nurse practitioners and physician assistants into various care settings has had a largely beneficial impact on healthcare, in terms of increased patient access to services and efficiency of operations.  Without careful attention paid to such issues as communication, documentation, and scope of practice, non-physician providers can expose themselves and healthcare settings to serious liabilities.  Learn strategies that reduce professional liability exposure to you and the organization(s) where you practice.
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Objectives
- Evaluate drugs that are more commonly associated with adverse events and medication errors.
- Analyze clinical examples of deviations from the standard of practice can lead to legal consequences.
- Apply guidance from agencies concerned with the prevention of and response to medication errors.
- Manage prescriptive decisions to reduce the possibility of legal consequences.
Outline
- Trends in Regulations of APRNs and PAs
- Scope of Practice Laws
- Prescriptive Authority Risks
- Medication Errors
- Improper prescribing/Managing of controlled drugs
- Failure to properly instruct patient
- Privileging in Acute Care Settings
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices
- Legal Case Studies and Recommendations
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physicians
- Physicians Assistants
Copyright :
01/18/2022
Testifying Under Oath - Trials and Depositions
Few life events are scarier than getting served paperwork that one has been named in a lawsuit. Far scarier still is having the case progress to the point where now one is facing deposition or jury trial! Just as the medical field has its own language, so does the legal system, and that can further add anxiety. Cyndi Zarbano MSN-Ed, CCRN, CMSRN, LNC, has performed as a legal nurse consultant and testifying expert since 2008 attending both depositions and trials. Join her as she takes you on a journey demystifying the complexities of testifying, trials and depositions, using real-life examples to bring clarity.
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Objectives
- Differentiate between an intentional and non-intentional tort.
- Determine the “Do’s and Don’ts” of deposition.
- Explain the eight stages of a trial.
- Analyze how the defendant and jury members’ oaths differ.
- Explain the penalties for perjury.
Outline
Types of medical-legal cases
- Does the case meet all necessary criteria?
- Negligence cases
- Intentional vs non-intentional torts
- Most common suits against providers
- Most common suits against nurses and others in the medical field
“So you’ve been named in a lawsuit…..”
- What does that mean?
- Things to remember
- Civil vs Criminal cases
Testifying under oath
- The sworn affidavit
- Plaintiffs Oath
- Jurists Oath
- Discovery
- A VERY important concept for legal nurse consultants to remember
- What is your role in the case?
- Nurse consultant vs testifying expert
Deposition
- What happens in a deposition?
- Always remember the ultimate goal?
- Do’s and Don’ts of Deposition
- What can a legal nurse consultant do to be of assistance in deposition cases?
- Do all depositions progress to trial?
Trial
- Bench Trial vs. Jury Trial
- Jury of one’s peers and jury selection
- Burden of Proof
- 8 stages of the trial
- Legal nurse consultant role in trials
- For defense
- For plaintiff
- Summary of judgment in civil trials
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
Copyright :
05/17/2024