Continuing Education

Avoiding the Slings and Arrows: Legal Issues in Nursing

Course Content and Objectives

At the conclusion of the course, the learner will be able to meet the following objectives for each module:

• Identify legal issues that impact nursing licensure and nursing practice.
• Discuss the nurse's role in advance directive planning.
• Develop strategies to improve nursing documentation.
• Discuss the nurse's role in reporting abuse.

Topics

• Aim High - Legal Issues Related to Nurse Licensure
  Debbie McKinney, R.N., M.S., J.D.
• Put on your Armor - Overview of Law, Treatment Decisions
  Marissa Lane, P.L.L.C.
• Targeting the Ins and Outs of Advance Directives
  Annette Prince, J.D., L.C.S.W.
• "Don't Shoot Me . . . I am Just the Messenger" Legal Issues in Documentation
  Lisa Hudson, M.S., R.N.
• Protecting Others from Slings and Arrows - Legal Issues related to Abuse
  Tamatha Mosier, C.D.S.V.R.P., Programs Manager for the Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General
  Sheryll Brown, M.P.H., Director, Violence Prevention Programs, OK State Department of Health

Learning Methods

This continuing education online course provides a variety of methods to help you review and learn the content. Each module has a videostream lecture covering the module course content.

Course Dates

This is an open enrollment, self-paced course.

CE Credit

Upon completion of the course and after taking quiz, participants will be awarded a continuing education certificate 6.5 continuing nursing education contact hours.The University of Oklahoma is an approved provider of continuing education by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The University of Oklahoma has been approved to provide continuing nursing education for three years July 8, 2010 through June 30, 2013. Provider #UOC-0613.

Registration/Pricing/Time to Complete

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