Kathleen Kovarik & Laurie Elston – Legal Risks and Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing: Learn from Real-Life Mistakes

Kathleen Kovarik & Laurie Elston – Legal Risks and Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing: Learn from Real-Life Mistakes

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Legal Risks and Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Learn from Real-Life Mistakes from Kathleen Kovarik and Laurie Elston

Your workplace is developing rapidly and is often understaffed. You are in a state of stress, anxiety, and overwhelmed with responsibility. This may make you feel like you need to cut back just to keep up, but this risky practice quickly leads to disaster for your patients And your license.

You should be prepared to defend your actions in court, because a doctor or hospital doesn\’t always do that. Learn from a nurse who understands the problems you face. Leave this online course feeling confident in your ability to assess risky situations in order to take the right steps to secure your job, license, and protect yourself in potential legal action.

Part 1:
Legal risks for nurses: learning from real mistakes

Module 1: Laws and protections

Areas of responsibility of health care providers
Litigation in cases of professional malpractice or negligence
Specialty guide

Module 2: how to protect yourself

Practical acts and standardized PH procedures
When to report abuse and neglect
Special PH laws

Module 3: Nurses

Nurse staffing standards and issues
Laws on licensing and certification agencies
Duties and responsibilities of unlicensed personnel

Module 4: Causes of legal errors

Preventative health-related infections
Over – reliance on technology
Frequent complaints about nurses
Inability to communicate and control

Module 5: Examples and errors

Cases of a patient falling
How lawsuits affect a nurse\’s license
Incorrect installation of the NG tube \’ anxiety fatigue

Module 6: Misconduct and documentation

Using restrictions and privacy
The basic documentation to protect
Universal timeout Protocol

Module 7: emergency Department and paediatric cases.

The main areas of risk
General areas of litigation
How to deal with nurse error and risk management

Module 8: More you can do to protect yourself

Insurance of private medical practice
Documentation standards
Problems with the schedule
Part 2:
Practical ethics: solving real problems faced by medical professionals

Module 1: Ethical values

Applied ethics
Influence on ethics
Key strategies for critical thinking

Module 2: history of ethics

The development of hospitals
Nazi experiments on prisoners
Era of technology
Clinical ethics today

Module 3: overview of the memorial hospital case

Background to the case
Advantages and disadvantages of the ethics Committee
Ethical advice

Module 4: tools for ethical tools.

Ethical perspectives and positions
Natural law and Catholic moral tradition
Kant\’s Foundation of moral metaphysics

Module 5: Implied duty to help

Difference of points of view and personal values
Microvascular and macrovascular complications
The principle of judges
Problems with the reliability
Criteria and barriers to obtaining informed consent

Module 6: ethical decision Making.

Setting ethical questions and practical problems
Model of ethical decision-making
Ethical dilemmas of the beginning and end of life

Module 7: Applying ethical leadership in the workplace

Virtuous leadership traits
Applying what you\’ve learned to the Memorial Hospital case
How to keep up with ethical issues
Nurses like you are delighted with the training style of our specialists:

Laurie Elston, BSN, JD, is a nurse with more than 20 years of experience as a solicitor. She received her doctorate with honors from Gonzaga University and was in law school. Throughout her career, she has represented healthcare providers in court and disciplinary cases. She was also a judge of the municipal court Pro Tem. She was licensed as a lawyer in California and Washington. Lori has an active legal practice: www.NursingLawCenter.com.

Before becoming a lawyer, she received a BSN and worked as a nurse at a large emergency medical center for more than seven years. During this time, she also worked as an assistant head nurse and responsible nurse.

After becoming a lawyer, she taught tort law at the University of Washington. She currently teaches courses in nursing law across the country for groups and institutions. In addition, she runs a training course for legal nurse consultants throughout the country and on DVD for home training. She often lectures on medical and legal topics.

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Kathleen Kovarik, MD, is an experienced physician and educator with 17 years of teaching and lecturing experience in various institutions (nursing schools, regional and national conferences, seminars, and field seminars). Through her clinical experience, she went from the regional burn unit of the level I trauma center at Harborview medical center in Seattle to a summer home care job for visiting nurses in Spokane, Washington, to running a nursing program in Missoula County, Montana. Currently, Kathleen calls black hills in South Dakota her home, where she is a member of the rapid city regional health ethics Committee, is the Director of Faces of Leadership (leadership training and counseling), and teaches applied health ethics for Regis. The University of Denver, and the team teaches an interdisciplinary palliative care course as the clinical faculty of the University of South Dakota school of medicine.

Dr. Kovarik continued to pursue her love of ethics and spent many years teaching ethics in teaching positions at Washington state University and South Dakota state University. Her work in a level I trauma center / burn unit and as a home care / parish nurse gives her a wide range of perspectives and a wealth of experience to share. She gained experience in pain management and end-of-life patient care, and was selected as a member of the Board of the Washington-Alaska cancer Initiative and interned at the University of Colorado in the field of pain management in children.

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