ED Legal Letter covers emergency medicine from the perspective of risk management and malpractice prevention. Each monthly issue reviews legal issues relating to emergency medicine practice and offers specific recommendations for reducing risk in the ED.

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Faculty: Larry B. Mellick, MD, MS, FAAP, FACEP, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Executive Editor, ED Legal Letter
Nurse Planner: Kay Ball, RN, PhD, CNOR, FAAN, Consultant/Educator, K&D Medical Inc., Lewis Center, OH.

Objectives: The objectives of ED Legal Letter are to:

• Identify legal issues relating to emergency medicine practice;
• Explain how these issues affect nurses, physicians, legal counsel, management, and patients.
• Integrate practical solutions to reduce risk into the ED practitioner's daily practices.

Target Audience: This activity is intended for the emergency physician and nurse.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 18.00 hour(s) of ACEP Category I credit.

This activity has been approved for 15 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 15 Contact Hours.

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they’ve learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.

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