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Collecting and Preserving Evidence in a Healthcare Setting
Whenever a crime occurs, evidence can be transferred among the perpetrator, victim, and the crime scene. Law enforcement personnel collect and preserve crime scene evidence. Healthcare professionals can simultaneously assist with a crime investigation and provide good healthcare to patients by collecting and preserving evidence from the patient’s body. It is imperative to understand that the collection and preservation of evidence from a patient should never compromise the patient’s safety, autonomy, or legal rights. This course provides an overview of interviewing, collecting, and preserving forensic evidence, toxicology, and documentation.
Recognize how nurses and other healthcare professionals can impact the outcome of criminal investigations.
Describe how to document information regarding the collection of evidence and forensic findings while providing patient-centered, high-quality healthcare.
Identify the measures necessary to preserve forensic evidence and maintain the proper chain of custody.
Documentation: The Legal Side
As a professional nurse, you are expected to be familiar with many aspects of care. You are not exempt from malpractice or negligence claims because you were following orders. You are responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating appropriate nursing care. What you document can and does reflect the care provided and the outcomes of that care. Documentation that is factual, complete, timely, and detailed is required. In this course, you will learn about concepts and rules regarding documentation in the medical record. Legal aspects to be aware of while practicing will also be discussed. The goal of this course is to educate nursing professionals in post-acute care settings about the legal implications of documentation.
Discuss malpractice, negligence, and compensatory and punitive damages as they relate to healthcare. Explain four intentional torts that a healthcare professional may be held liable for. Describe four documentation techniques to use to avoid legal issues.
Ethics and Corporate Compliance
Establishing an effective corporate compliance program helps healthcare organizations prevent, detect, and correct unlawful and unethical behavior. This course discusses the laws and behaviors related to ethics. It also discusses your responsibilities in preventing and identifying unlawful and unethical behavior. The goal of this course is to familiarize general staff in healthcare settings with the most common types of fraudulent and improper conduct.
Identify common high-risk areas for fraudulent conduct.
Recall at least three types of fraudulent or other improper conduct.
Ethics for Licensed Professionals: 1 Hour
Ethics are a significant part of high-quality clinical practice. This one hour course presents ethical principles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with an awareness of how ethics impact clinical practice and an approach for analyzing ethical issues in clinical practice.
Identify definitions, similarities, and differences of common ethics terminology and concepts.
Describe the four healthcare ethical principles and their implications for clinical practice.
Apply an ethical decision-making model to ethical issues and dilemmas.
In Session: Practicing Clinical Skills to Prevent Suicide in Adults
The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services settings with an opportunity to apply your existing knowledge to assess and intervene with an at-risk adult.
Identify risk factors and warning signs for suicidality in adults.
Indicate the appropriate steps to assess an individual’s level of suicide risk.
State the essential interventions to implement based on the level of identified risk.
Optimizing Patient Outcomes in Acute Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF) treatment is costly and requires a multidisciplinary approach. Evidence-based treatment guidelines improve patient outcomes, and it is essential to become familiar with these guidelines to reduce patient mortality. Healthcare team members play a significant role in treating acute HF (AHF), helping to reduce the morbidity and mortality of the disease and decrease the use and costs associated with care. This course aims to educate nurses and nutrition and dietetics professionals in the acute care setting about evidence-based heart failure treatment guidelines.
Describe heart failure, including its classification systems, presentation, treatment, and evidence-based therapies.
Describe strategies for patient self-management.
Overview of Evidence-Based, Suicide-Specific Interventions
It was once assumed that addressing underlying conditions was the best way to treat suicidality. We now know that suicidal people need interventions that directly target suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Suicide-specific interventions will give you the tools to help clients manage suicide risk.
In this course, you will learn about specific evidence-based and research-informed interventions that directly target suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Through case examples, you will gain a better understanding of ways to implement these strategies.
The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals with knowledge about evidence-based, suicide-specific interventions.
Describe three evidence-based interventions for treating individuals at risk for suicide or who have made a recent attempt.
Summarize the process for completing a safety plan and for reducing access to lethal means.
Recall the factors you should consider when determining what interventions may be needed for suicidal individuals.
Pediatric Patients and Concussion Management
Concussion is a form of mild traumatic brain injury that is common in children and adolescents. Despite increased awareness about the injury, concussion remains under-reported and under-diagnosed. Nurses and Radiology Technicians must be aware of the identification, diagnosis, and management of concussions in pediatric patients.
Identify signs and symptoms of concussions in pediatric patients.
Recognize the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of concussions in pediatric patients.
Recall the complications of concussions in pediatric patients.
Pediatric Problems in Ambulatory Care
Pediatric ambulatory care consists of well-child checks, preventive care, and the treatment and management of acute and chronic health conditions. Nurses provide holistic care to the pediatric patient by synthesizing their nursing assessments with parent/caregiver concerns. Nurses collaborate with the healthcare team to identify and address common pediatric health problems encountered in the ambulatory care setting.
Recognize the causes, diagnosis, and management for common conditions in pediatric ambulatory care.
Recall nursing considerations for common conditions in pediatric ambulatory care.
Preventing Suicide Among Veteran Populations
Veterans are 1.5 times more likely to die by suicide than non-veterans (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [VA], 2022). This course will explain the specific factors that increase suicide risk in veterans. You will also learn about assessment and intervention approaches used to manage suicide risk in this population.
The goal of this course is to provide knowledge to addictions, behavioral health counseling, case management/care management, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, social work professionals, and physicians in health and human services settings about suicide prevention strategies for veterans.
Identify three factors that specifically increase suicide risk in veterans.
Recall screening and assessment strategies to identify veterans at risk for suicide.
Define three effective ways to intervene to reduce suicide risk among veterans.