Elder Care Documentation That Reduces Legal Scrutiny in Litigation
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Join me in this in-depth review, where we will get into legal case studies as exemplars for documentation practices.
Dates: March 9, 2022
Time: 1:00 PM EST |10:00 AM PDT
Duration: 2.0 Hours
Instructor: Rachel Henderson, Ph.D., MS, RN, HCRM
Overview:
Knowing what to chart, how to chart, and when to chart is half the battle of charting regardless of the clinical setting. This program will review high-risk clinical areas of the elderly that warrant intentional, specific charting to demonstrate adherence to minimal care expectations and regulatory standards. Recommendations are offered to provide detailed guidelines to evaluate your unique charting patterns.
Who Will Benefit:
Nurses
Legal Nurses
Advanced Practice Nurses
Risk Managers
Case Managers
Academic Faculty
Objectives:
1. Analyze trends in EHR documentation.
2. Determine how scribes are effectively used in clinical practice.
3. Apply the dimensions of competence to informed consent.
4. Determine how frailty instruments are best used in LTC.
5. Analyze how documentation of care coordination impacts homecare.
6. Differentiate between state staffing and federal staffing requirements.
7. Choose best practices of managing polypharmacy suited to acute care.
8. Apply the standards of pain assessment to medical record entries.
9. Analyze physical findings that could represent forensic evidence.
10. Determine if a patient has malnutrition from medical record entries.
11. Apply the requirement of meaningful use to physical findings of Type 2 DM.
12. Assess the impact psychotropic medications has on the elderly in nursing homes.
13. Determine best practices to manage the use of psychotropic medications properly.
14. Analyze the current issues that may violate resident rights in long-term care.
15. Develop a personal self-assessment of documentation strategies to implement immediately to safeguard your license.
About Speaker: Dr. Rachel Henderson
Owner and CEO of Medical Legal Concepts, LLC, a consulting firm for the legal and healthcare professions.
Rachel Henderson, Ph.D., MS, RN, HCRM has been teaching the legal aspects of healthcare and mentoring nurses for over three decades. She is the host of the LNC Summit and is President of the Florida Speakers Association. She is clinically active, an adjunct professor, and testifies as an expert witness addressing nursing standards of care. Her trademark is her ability to make complex issues simple and fun to learn.Read More
