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Is “First Do No Harm” enough? One of the most important aspects of current healthcare delivery is the ability to provide quality and safe patient care.  Healthcare providers and facilities face multiple challenges to defining, educating, implementing, and evaluating these standards in care.

This six-week self-paced program combines online education with live webinars to provide you with a study choice that will fit your schedule. Complete the online examination and earn 23.0 contact hours and a certificate of completion.  

ONLINE MODULES: (1.0 contact hour each)**:

1.     Safety First: The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals for 2012

2.     Promoting a Culture of Safety to Prevent Medical Errors

3.     Lines of Communication

4.     Fall Prevention Among the Elderly

5.     Safe Labeling Helps Prevent OR Errors

6.     Perioperative Patient Safety: Hypothermia, Hypoglycemia and Handoffs

7.   Hidden Danger: Venous Thromboembolism

8.     Working with an Interdisciplinary Team

9.   Rapid Response Teams Can Rescue Patients From "In Hospital" Cardiac Arrest

10. A Lurking Danger: A "Bundle" of Safety Measures Available to Fight Central Line Infections.

11. Nurses Critical as Reimbursement Dries Up for Catheter-Associated UTIs

12. Ensuring Evidence-Based Practice in Critical Care: Process and Application

13. Nursing Informatics: Leveraging Technology to Improve Patient Care

14. What's Being Done to Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery?

15. Attention Nurses! Anticoagulant Overdoses Prompt Joint Commission to Issue New Safety Requirement

16. Preventing Medical Errors** (2.0 contact hours)

WEBINAR COURSES:

All webinars are presented by Elizabeth G. Rudolph, RN, JD, MSN.

• What is Patient Safety? Creating a Culture of Collaboration in Healthcare:  Creating a Culture of Collaboration in Healthcare.This webinar will address patient safety culture as a fundamentla aspect of safe, high quality care. Key concepts include Just Culture, human error, accountability, and disruptive behavior.
  
• Identifying, Preventing, and Managing Adverse Events:  Learn the processes required for effectively reporting, investigating, and analyzing patient safety incidents and medical errors.
  
• Working Safely: Preventing Risk:  This webinar will present effective strategies for educating, engaging, and training leaders, clinicians and staff in patient safety initiatives.
  
• Utilizing Evidence-Based Practice and IT to Enhance Safety:  Learn how health information technology (HIT) can be a means to facilitate effective communication amonth healthcare providers and their patients, while also supporting delivery of safe, evidence-based care.  
  
• Measuring Quality Outcomes: Learn measurement techniques and methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of patient safety efforts and target specific areas for improvement.
  
• Ethics and Legislative Updates in Patient Safety: This webinar will discuss the external influences in the field of patient safety by exploring new and emerging trends in healthcare policy at the federal, state and local levels.
  
  If you missed any webinars, you will have a chance to view the recording until September 12, 2012.

Key course benefits:

• Supports the necessity for quality and safety education related to risk management and regulatory requirements.
• Attend live, interactive discussions with nationally recognized experts in risk management and quality healthcare.
• Enhanced learning with interactive cases.

Who should attend: All nurses, however, all healthcare providers will benefit.

Cost of the 6-week program:  $199 (discounted group rate of 3 or more: $175)

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: July 16, 2012

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

Phone cancellations must be confirmed in writing. Cancellations received by June 15, 2012 will receive a full refund off the registration fee. Cancellations received between June 15, 2012 and July 16, 2012 will be assessed a $50 processing fee. Cancellations received after July 16, 2012 or “no shows” will not receive a refund. In the event that the program is cancelled, a full refund will be issued.

If you missed any webinars, you will have a chance to view the recording until September 12, 2012.

Elizabeth G. Rudolph, RN, MSN, JD is an attorney and nurse with many years experience practicing healthcare law in Memphis, Tennessee. She obtained her Bachelors in Nursing and Masters in Nursing from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. She also received her law degree from Vanderbilt University. Rudolph is a nationally renowned speaker on legal issues in nursing and legal nurse consulting. She has spoken at over a thousand conferences, seminars and workshops. Rudolph has authored numerous publications on legal and nursing issues, many of which are available in books, courses and CDs. She has been the subject of many published articles and featured in network television programming. Rudolph is the Founder and President of Jurex Center for Legal Nurse Consulting, www.jurexnurse.com.

QUESTIONS?
Contact Holly Daymude at (703) 241-3334 or hdaymude@gannetthg.com 

ONLINE MODULE:
Quality and Safety Online Readings – Starting July 23, 2012.

WEBINARS:

Disclosures

Webinars must be attended in their entirety and the evaluation form must be completed.

The planners and presenter(s)/author(s) of this course have declared no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity.

Gannett Education guarantees that the content of these educational activities are free from bias.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with this activity.

Accreditation

Nurse.com educational events are provided by Gannett Education. Gannett Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Gannett Education is also accredited by the Florida Board of Nursing (provider no. FBN 50-1489) and the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider no. CEP 13213).