Legal Risks and Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing: Learn from Real-Life Mistakes – Kathleen Kovarik and Laurie Elston

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Your workplace moves at a rapid pace and is often understaffed. You are stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed with responsibility. This can leave you feeling like you need to take short cuts just to keep up — but this risky practice quickly leads to disaster for your patients AND your license.

You have to be prepared to defend your actions in court because the physician or the hospital will not always do so. Learn from a Nursing Attorney who understands the challenges you face. Walk away from this online course feeling confident in your ability to evaluate risky situations to take the right steps to secure your job, license, and protect yourself in a potential law suit.

Your colleagues are raving about the content displayed in this online course:

• “Excellent seminar. This class should be mandatory for all nurses. Presented very professionally with great sense of humor…”
  “You took what could have been a tedious day and made it into an entirely enjoyable, enlightening experience. The way you have interwoven the complex components in the presentation gave me many ‘aha’ moments. I noted several ways to improve my practice immediately. I highly recommend this course!”
  “Excellent in every way! I’m especially impressed with how you presented your case studies.”

Here’s what you will learn in this comprehensive online course:

Part 1:

Legal Risks for Nurses: Learn from Real-Life Mistakes

Module 1: Laws and Defenses

• Areas of liability for healthcare providers
• Litigation process for professional negligence or malpractice cases
• Guidelines for specialty standards

Module 2: How to Protect Yourself

• RN practice acts and standardized procedures
• When is it mandatory to report abuse and neglect
• Specialty RN laws

Module 3: Nurses

• Nurse staffing standards and issues
• Licensing and certification agency laws
• Duties and liability of unlicensed personnel

Module 4: Where are Legal Errors Occurring

• Preventable healthcare associated infections
• Overly dependent on technology
• Frequent claims against nurses
• Failure to communicate & monitor

Module 5: Case Studies and Errors

• Patient fall cases
• How legal claims affect a nurse’s license
• NG tube misplacement ‘ alarm fatigue

Module 6: Misconduct and Documentation

• Using restraints and seclusion
• Key documentation for defending
• Universal time–out protocol

Module 7: Emergency Department & Pediatric Cases

• Major areas of risk
• Common litigation areas
• How to deal with a nursing error and risk management

Module 8: More You Can Do to Protect Yourself

• Private malpractice insurance
• Documentation standards
• Charting issues

Part 2:

Practical Ethics: Addressing the Real-Life Challenges Confronting Healthcare Professionals

Module 1: Values of Ethics

• Applied Ethics
• Influences on ethics
• Key critical thinking strategies

Module 2: History of Ethics

• Development of hospitals
• Nazi experimentation on prisoners
• The technology era
• Clinical ethics today

Module 3: The Memorial Hospital Case Overview

• Background story to the case
• Advantages and disadvantages of the ethics committee
• Ethical consultations

Module 4: Tools for the Ethical Toolkit

• Ethical viewpoints and stances
• Natural law and catholic moral tradition
• Kant’s foundation of the metaphysics of moral

Module 5: Implied Duty to Help

• Differentiating perspectives and personal values
• Microvascular and macrovascular complications
• Principle of justices
• Challenges with veracity
• Criteria and barriers for informed consent

Module 6: Ethical Decision Making

• Framing ethical questions and practical problems
• Ethical decision–making model
• Beginning and end of life ethical dilemmas

Module 7: Exercising Ethical Leadership in the Workplace

• Traits of a virtuous leadership
• Applying what you learned to the Memorial Hospital case
• How to keep up–to–date on ethical issues