Healthcare Risk Management (Vol. 39, No. 2)

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Release date: February 2017

Valid through: February 2019

Target Audience

This activity is intended for healthcare risk managers, lawyers, and other managers responsible for reducing liability and improving safety in the healthcare setting.

Subjects

Legal marijuana requires reassessing hospital drug policies
Cardholders may be protected
Most employers ban marijuana entirely
Hospital wins case after patient rape
Multiple strategies needed to reduce diagnostic errors
Central command improves patient safety
Cyberattacks are increasing
Legal Review & Commentary: Undiagnosed fistula leads to $50 million verdict; Hospital escapes 40% ostensible agency liability on appeal

Objectives

Describe legal, clinical, financial, and managerial issues pertinent to risk management;
Explain the impact of risk management issues on patients, physicians, nurses, legal counsel, and management;
Identify solutions to risk management problems in healthcare for hospital personnel to use in overcoming the challenges they encounter in daily practice

Credit Available

Physicians

Maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Nurses

1.5 ANCC Contact Hours

Sponsor

This activity is sponsored by AHC Media.

Accreditation Statement

Relias Learning, LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

Physicians

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP13791, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.

Faculty Listing

Authors

Greg Freeman

Editors

Editor: Jill Drachenberg

Assistant Editor: Jonathan Springston

Physician Editor: Arnold Mackles, MD, MBA, LHRM, President, Innovative Healthcare Compliance Group, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Nurse Planner: Maureen Archambault, RN, MBA, HRM, CPHRM, FASHRM

Financial Disclosure

Author Greg Freeman, Editor Jill Drachenberg, Assistant Editor Jonathan Springston, and Nurse Planner Maureen Archambault report no consultant, stockholder, speakers’ bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies have ties to this field of study. Arnold Mackles, MD, MBA, LHRM, physician reviewer, discloses that he is an author and advisory board member for The Sullivan Group and that he is owner, stockholder, presenter, author, and consultant for Innovative Healthcare Compliance Group.

Healthcare Risk Management (Vol. 39, No. 2) - February 1, 2017