Legal Regulatory Nursing CEU Courses

To know documentation principles and to apply them in daily practice are musts for every nurse. These are essential to protect patients and to safeguard every nurse’s license. Documentation is the foundational proof that care was provided to a patient. Requirements and methods of documenting are ever-changing amongst a variety of documentation modalities. Although nurses sometimes view documentation as a process that takes precious time away from direct patient care, it is one of the most critical skills they perform. In fact, appropriate and effective documentation is at the core of nursing practice.

Nurses are taught from the beginning of their careers to anticipate and prepare for anything that comes their way, including adverse drug events (ADEs). These common events cause thousands of injuries and deaths each year in the U.S. Nurses play a significant role in recognizing, documenting, and preventing these events.

A variety of legal concerns influence utilization management (UM) processes, including patient confidentiality requirements, professional liabilities, and malpractice issues. Patients rely on healthcare providers to uphold their best interests, but the individuals and institutions intended to protect patients can fail at times. Therefore, all healthcare professionals must understand basic legal principles and follow laws and regulations which affect their practice.

More than 54.1 million people undergo surgical procedures annually in the United States, and many suffer from avoidable adverse events. This course provides evidence-based practice (EBP) information to promote the management of hypothermia, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and handover communication in the perioperative setting. Each topic includes an overview of EBP information that healthcare providers can apply to reduce patient harm from adverse events. The ability to apply the information depends on a solid understanding of EBP in the perioperative setting.

• Explain the Joint Commission’s 2022 National Patient Safety Goals.

This course will cover the 2022 National Patient Safety Goals for nursing staff in the hospital setting.

• Explain the Joint Commission’s 2022 National Patient Safety Goals.

This course will cover the 2022 National Patient Safety Goals for allied health staff in the hospital setting. © Joint Commission Resources: National Patient Safety Goals. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, (2022). Reprinted with permission.

This course will cover the 2021 National Patient Safety Goals for nursing staff in the hospital setting.

This course will cover the 2021 National Patient Safety Goals for nursing staff in the hospital setting.

Transfusions are a life-saving intervention, but transfusion errors, particularly errors involving ABO incompatibility, can be deadly. Three actions that have frequently been a contributing cause for ABO incompatibility errors are incorrect labeling of the blood sample for crossmatching, incorrect interpretation by personnel in the blood bank, and incorrect identification of the patient prior to initiation of a transfusion. Laboratory staff and nurses who are involved in the administration of blood products must strictly follow facility policies to ensure that they give the correct blood product to the correct patient.

This course will be discontinued on August 15, 2019, because a new version of it (REL-AC-0-NPSGN National Patient Safety Goals – Nursing) is now available.

The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals program provides nurses with safe care guidelines for hospitalized patients, thus meeting The Joint Commission’s and employers’ requirements. Nurses do not always receive adequate education about current NPSGs. This updated CE module provides information for increasing knowledge on the subject and describes NPSG intents and elements of performance (requirements).