Catalog Number : ngd1222
Title : Legal Issues in the ED: Recommendations to Reduce Risk
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 11-10-2010
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

The emergency department (ED) is a high-risk area of liability for the hospital. This seminar will focus on legal and risk management issues that healthcare providers face while caring for patients in this high-risk environment. It will also discuss how to comply with selected CMS hospital CoP and Joint Commission standards that are problematic for emergency department staff. It includes how the new visitation law affects the ED and the CMS anesthesia standards on the use of deep sedation or moderate sedation.

The Joint Commission 2011 standard on patient centered communication will be discussed including the interpreter and collecting race and ethnicity data in the ED.

Medication errors are the most common medical error and the common medication errors that occur in the ED will be discussed and how to avoid them. This program will also discuss the new CMS CoP changes which require all ED nurses to have training on blood transfusion and IV medication and what must be included.

Target Audience:

• ED Physicians
• ED Nurse Managers
• ED and Clinic Nurses
• Risk Managers
• Consumer Advocates
• In-House Legal Counsel
• Compliance Officers
• Nurse Educators
• Patient Safety Officer
• Joint Commission Coordinator
• Director of Regulatory Affairs
• Anyone involved with the care, treatment, and liability concerns of the ED patient

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss legal and risk management issues in the ED and recommendations including how to reduce the most common medication errors that occur in the ED
• Recall the Joint Commission standard to collect age and ethnicity data in the ED
• Describe the importance of documenting the use of interpreters for patients with limited English proficiency
• Describe that there is a new visitation law that effects the emergency department

Webinar Outline:

• Negligence principles
• High-risk patient presentations
  • Key ED risk guidelines
• Protocols and standing orders
  • CMS interpretive guideline
• Patient rights
  • CMS and Joint Commission standards (TJC)
• Interpreters
• 2011 TJC Patient Communication standard
  • Interpreters
  • Collecting Race and Ethnicity data in the ED
  • Communication needs of ED Patients
• Intoxicated patients
• Skin assessment
• Abnormal x-ray and lab results
• Discharge instructions
  • Things the ED can do to prevent unnecessary readmissions
• Discharges current issues
• ED policies and procedures
• Reducing medication errors
• Informed Consent
  • CMS and TJC standards
• How new Visitation law affects the ED
• New CMS Anesthesia standards and effect on the ED
  • Moderate sedation, minimal sedation, local and topical
  • ACEP and ENA standard
• ED TJC Patient Tracers
• CMS IV medication and blood transfusion training required
• CT scan interferences
• Resident orders
• Intoxicated patients

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.