The emergency department (ED) is a high-risk area of liability for any hospital! This program will focus on legal and risk management issues that healthcare providers face today while caring for patients in this high-risk environment.  

Do not miss this 90-minute webinar where nurse attorney Sue Dill Calloway will focus on patient safety and risk management issues that can reduce liability in your ED and how to protect you from ED legal nightmares. 

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the legal and risk management issues in the ED including how to reduce the most common medication errors.
• 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 the new visitation law that effects the emergency department.

Target Audience:

• ED Physicians
• ED Nurse Managers
• ED and Clinic Nurses
• ED Charge Nurses
• Risk Managers
• Patient Safety Officer
• Consumer Advocates 
• Nurse Educators
• In-House Legal Counsel
• Compliance Officers
• Chief Nursing Officer 
• Nursing supervisors 
• Anyone involved with the care, treatment, and liability concerns of the ED patients

Level: All levels 

Meet your Expert:

Sue Dill Calloway is a nurse attorney and medical-legal consultant. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers. She has spoken internationally on patient safety, risk management, legal, regulatory, and CMS and Joint Commission issues. She has authored over a thousand articles and a hundred books including a book on the Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission, CMS Patient Rights Standards and a book on 2009 Joint Commission Leadership and many books on nursing law and nursing law and ethics.  

Her associate degree is from Central Ohio Technical College and Ohio State University. Her BA, BSN in Nursing, MSN in nursing (summa cum laude) and JD degree (law degree with honors) are from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Accreditation Statement:

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

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media.

Recorded: Wednesday, July 13, 2011