Catalog Number : ngd1139
Title : Nursing Law Update
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 2-26-2015
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:
This program will cover hot topics nursing in 2015. It will cover hot and problematic standards with CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and the Joint Commission (TJC). CMS recently issued its first memo summarizing all the deficiencies received by hospitals.

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss some of the top problematic standards for hospital by the Joint Commission and CMS
• Describe the CMS requirement that a post anesthesia evaluation must be done on all outpatient surgery patients within 48 hours of receiving anesthesia (including deep sedation)
  • Note CAH must be done before the patient leaves the hospital
• Recall that all hospitals should follow the American College of Radiology standards for MRI safety
• Discuss that a physician who signs off on a verbal order must date and time it
• Recall that medication errors are the most common type of medical error
• Describe that every hospital should have safe injection practice policies that follow the CDC guidelines

Target Audience:

Nurses, Risk Managers, Patient Safety Officer, COO, CNO, CMO, ED Manager, Nurse Managers, Nursing Supervisors, OR Nurse Managers, Compliance Officer, JC Coordinators, Quality Improvement Personnel, Consumer Advocates, Staff Nurses, Nurse Educator, Clinic Managers, Legal Counsel, Pharmacist and anyone interested in nursing, Risk Management and Patient Safety issues

Webinar Topics:

• TJC and CMS top problematic standards
• CMS CoP changes
• Patient advocate or support persons
• Interpreters and low health literacy
• CMS changes to timing of medications by nurses
• CMS changes on medication errors, ADE, and drug incompatibility
• Verbal orders CMS and TJC
• Informed consent requirements
• H&P CMS and TJC
• CMS restraint and seclusion
• CMS post anesthesia evaluation
• TJC top five compliance standards
• MRI guidelines
• Medication error prevention issues
• Infection control a hot issue
• Standards of practice and guidelines
• Falls programs
• Importance of documentation
• Safe injection practices
• IV medication and safe opioid use
• TJC patient centered care standard on interpreters
• TJC Record of care documentation standards

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.