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Catalog Number : ngd1371
Title : ED Legal & Risk Management Issues
Speaker : Sue Dill

Duration : 90 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 8-26-2016
Webplay Price : $ 150 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

This webinar will focus on legal and risk management issues that healthcare providers face while caring for patients in this high-risk environment, the emergency department (ED). It will discuss how to comply with selected CMS hospital CoP and Joint Commission standards that are problematic for emergency department staff. It includes how the visitation law, the CMS anesthesia standards on the use of deep sedation or moderate sedation, the impact of the new CMS worksheets, the new changes regarding the use of standing orders, the issue of alarm and how all affect the ED.

Target Audience:

  • ED Physicians, ED Nurse Managers, ED and Clinic Nurses, Charge nurses, nursing supervisors, Risk Managers, Consumer Advocates, In-House Legal Counsel, Compliance Officers, Nurse Educators, Patient Safety Officer, Joint Commission Coordinator, Director of Regulatory Affairs and 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 race and ethnicity data in the ED
  • Describe the importance of documenting the use of interpreters for patients with limited English proficiency
  • Describe that the visitation law requires the ED to give the patient written information on their rights including information on the hospital’s advance directive policy

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
  • TJC Patient Communication standard
    • Interpreters
    • Issue of low health literacy and use teach back
    • Collecting Race and Ethnicity data in the ED
    • Communication needs of ED Patients
  • Intoxicated patients
  • Alarm fatigue
  • Abnormal vital signs
  • CMS standing orders and protocols
  • CDC intravascular guidelines
  • TJC medication reconciliation
  • 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 CMS Visitation law affects the ED
  • 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

Contact Hours:

  • Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 1.8 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339.
  • All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 1.5 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program.

Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.

Refund Policy:

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.