PC6 - The Buck Stops Here! Legal Issues & Risk Management Strategies for Nursing Leadership

Title: PC6 - The Buck Stops Here! Legal Issues & Risk Management Strategies for Nursing Leadership

Disciplines: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  1. List top areas of perinatal litigation.
  2. Identify key liability issues faced by managerial staff.
  3. Discuss risk management strategies related to unanticipated outcomes, chain-of-command, standards of care, and nursing development/nursing management.
Submission Description:
From team leaders and clinical specialists to nursing executives and directors, clinical leadership in perinatal nursing demands familiarity with legal and risk management issues. This course will provide an overview of liability issues unique to leadership positions, including employment concerns, unit risk assessment, sentinel event management and professional liability concerns for managerial staff. Strategies to promote safer care while reducing liability exposure will be explored, and several case studies will be utilized to exemplify common legal issues.
Saturday, June 14, 2014: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Coronado F & G (Disney Coronado Springs)
Presenting Author:
Lisa A. Miller, CNM, JD
Moderator:
Edith Combs, MN
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The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.