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Kathleen Kovarik & Laurie Elston – Legal Risks and Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
Your workplace moves quickly and Many times, they are understaffed. Stressed, anxious or both. and You can feel overwhelmed by the 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 must be ready to defend yourself in Court because the doctor or hospital may not always do so. Learn from a Nursing A lawyer who is sensitive to your needs. This online course will make you feel confident. in Your ability to recognize risk situations and determine the best steps to take. secure your job, license, and Protect yourself in Potential law suit
Legal Risks For Nurses, Learn from the Real-Make Mistakes in Your Life
Module 1: Laws and Defences
- Healthcare providers are subject to certain areas of liability
- Procedural litigation for professional negligence cases or malpractice cases
- Guidelines for specialty standardization
Module 2: Protecting Yourself
- RN practice acts and standardized procedures
- Is it mandatory to report abuse? and neglect
- Laws relating to specialties in RN
Module 3: Nurses
- Standards for nursing staff and Issues
- Licensing and Certification agency laws
- Duties and Unlicensed personnel can be held responsible
Module 4: Where are you? Legal Errors Occurring
- Infections that could be prevented by healthcare professionals
- Too dependent on technology
- Frequent claims against nurses
- Failure to communicate & monitor
Module 5: Case Studies and Errors
- Fall cases of patients
- How legal claims affect a nurse’s license
- NG tube misplacement ‘ alarm fatigue
Module 6: Misconduct and Documentation
- Restraints and seclusion
- Key documentation for defending
- Universal time–out protocol
Module 7: Emergency Department & Pediatric Cases
- Risky areas
- Common areas of litigation
- How to handle a nursing error and risk management
Module 8: What You Can Do To Protect Yourself
- Private malpractice insurance
- Documentation standards
- Charting issues
Practical ethics: Addressing the Real-Healthcare professionals face challenges in everyday life
Module 1: Ethics and Values
- Applied Ethics
- Influences on ethics
- Strategies for critical thinking
Module 2: History of Ethics
- Hospital development
- Nazi experiments on prisoners
- Technology is the new era
- Clinical ethics is today
Module 3: The Memorial Hospital Case Overview
- Background story
- Advantages and The disadvantages of the ethics commission
- Ethical Consultations
Module 4: Tools to the rescue Ethical Toolkit
- Ethical Viewpoints and Standpunkte
- Natural law and Catholic moral tradition
- Kant’s foundation of the metaphysics of moral
Module 5: Implied duty to help
- Different perspectives and Individual values
- Microbiology and Macrovascular complications
- Principle of justice
- Veracity challenges
- Criteria and Barriers to informed consent
Module 6 Ethical Take a decision
- Framing ethical questions and Practical problems
- Ethical decision–making model
- Begin and End-of-life ethical dilemmas
Module 7: Exercising Ethical Leadership in The Workplace
- Virtuous leadership traits
- What you have learned can be applied to the Memorial Hospital case
- How to keep up–to–date on ethical issues
Would you like to be contacted? Kathleen Kovarik & Laurie Elston – Legal Risks and Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
Laurie Elston, BSN, JD, A Nurse Attorney, she has over 20 years experience as an attorney. Gonzaga University gave her her Juris Doctorate cum laude. and Served as a Law Review member. She represented health care providers in malpractice and Throughout her career, she has handled disciplinary cases. She was also a Municipal Court Judge Pro Tem. She is licensed as an attorney in Both California and Washington. Laurie maintains an active law practice: www.NursingLawCenter.com.
She obtained a BSN before she became an attorney. and Over seven years as a registered nurse in a large acute care medical center. She also served as an assistant chief nurse during this period. and charge nurse.
Since her time as an attorney, she taught tort law at Washington University. She currently teaches. Nursing Group law classes in the country and institutions. Additionally, she teaches. Legal Nursing Consulting Training Courses in the United States and You can also purchase the DVD to help you study at home. She is a regular lecturer on medical topics.-Topics of legal importance.
Kathleen Kovarik, PhD, RN, Is a highly qualified clinician and 17-years experience as a teacher and lecturing in A variety of settings are available (schools of Nursing, Regional). and Workshops and national conferences and retreats). She has been a Harborview Medical Center Level I Trauma Center Regional Burn Unit. in Seattle, Washington, summers home care for visiting nurses in Spokane, WA to launch a parish Nursing Program in Missoula, MT. Currently, Kathleen She calls the Black Hills of South Dakota home and serves as a member of the Ethics Committee for Regional Health in Rapid City is the director of Faces of Leadership. and Consultation) teaches Applied Health-Regis University: Care Ethics in Denver, and Team-teaches an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Course as clinical faculty for the University of South Dakota’s medical school.
Dr. Kovarik pursuing her passion for ethics and For many years, he has been teaching ethics content in She is currently a faculty member at Washington State University and South Dakota State University Her work in a Level I Trauma Center/Burn Unit and in She is able to offer home care/parish Nursing and has a broad perspective and Rich experiences to share. She developed expertise in Pain management and End-Of-life care, and A member of the Board of the Washington-Alaska State Cancer Pain Initiative and To do a fellowship at the University of Colorado in Pain management for children.
Completion of your CE exams online, at the end of each module. You will have instant access to your CE certificates
Course Features
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- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Students 0
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