Catalog Number : ngd1140
Title : Nursing Law, Liability, & Documentation Update - Part 2
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 5-31-2007
Webplay Price : $ 225 for two weeks viewing

Teleconference/Webinar Presenter: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, Esq., AD, BA, BSN, MSN, JD

Teleconference/Webinar Title: Nursing Law, Liability, and Documentation 2008 Update- Part 2

Teleconference/Webinar Level: Basic

Teleconference/Webinar Objectives:

• Describe recent infection control issues in nursing including new CMS guidelines Identify hot topics in nursing practice including the new 2008 guidelines on verbal orders

Teleconference/Webinar Outline:

• Infection Control Issues for Nursing
• New 2008 CMS Infection Control Guidelines
• Proposed 2009 Joint Commission Standards
• AHA Quality Bulletin
• Preventing UTI from Foley catheter
• Sepsis Bundle Implementations
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention
• VAP, Central Line Bundles, MRSA, VRE, and C-diff Issues
• Hot Topics in Nursing in 2008
• New CMS February 2008 Interpretive Guidelines for History and Physicians
• Security of Medications and Post Anesthesia Evaluation
• MRI Safety Update
• Fatigue and medical error
• 2009 Joint Commission Disruptive Behavior Standard
• Gadolinium based contrast agents
• Deaths from luer misconnections
• Fatal errors with vincristine
• Deaths after echo contrast agents
• Disclosure of physician ownership in hospitals
• CMS new medical emergency requirement
• Tamper resistant prescription pads
• IHI Global trigger tool update
• Fentanyl Patch issues
• RN one-hour assessment for restraints
• CMS restraint death reporting
• Top Joint Commission problematic standards
• Neuromuscular blockers

Prerequisities: None

Target Audience: All Staff Nurses Chief Nursing Officer, Nurse Educator, Emergency Department Manager, Nurse Managers/Supervisors, OB Nurse Manager, Compliance Officer, The Joint Commission Coordinator, Quality Improvement Director, Consumer Advocates, Risk Managers, Staff Nurses, Clinic Managers, Chief Operating Officer

Nursing Contact Hours: This course has been approved for 2.4 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

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.