Don’t Worry, Be Happy. We’re Just Being Sued: Legal Issues in Wound Nursing
Webinar Topic: Wound Care
Speaker: Janice M. Beitz, PhD, RN, CS, CNOR, CWOCN-AP, CRNP, ANEF, FNAP, FAAN
Webinar Description:
Contemporary nursing is associated with the risk of being sued for patient care. A clear message in the medico-legal literature is that quality documentation showing critical thinking and good communication is the best defense against successful plaintiff litigation. This session will describe critical aspects of medico-legal issues about which nurses should be informed especially for wound care as they interact with attorneys from the mythical law firm of “Dewy, Cheatham, and Howe.”
Target Audience: Nurses, physical therapists, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
About the Speaker:
Janice M. Beitz is Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing-Camden, Rutgers University. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Beitz has over 50 years of nursing experience in acute, sub-acute, and outpatient care settings. She is a graduate of the Germantown Hospital School of Nursing and La Salle, Villanova, and Temple Universities. She is board certified as an adult clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing, as a nurse of the operating room, as an advanced practice wound, ostomy, continence nurse, and as an adult nurse practitioner. She has taught nursing students at baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral levels. She has consulted as a WOC Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist for the Cooper Health System. She is the Director of the Rutgers University Camden Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Education Program (WOCNEP). She has conducted funded research on Content Validation of Pressure Injury Prevention Algorithms and Prioritizing Management Approaches to Stomal and Peristomal Complications. Dr. Beitz is currently conducting funded research on academic workplace bullying and validation of wound care topical therapy algorithms. Dr. Beitz is on the editorial and manuscript reviewer boards of multiple wound care and educational journals. Dr. Beitz received the WOC Nurse of Distinction and President’s Awards of the Northeast Region of the WOCN Society and, in April 2012, was awarded the Masters of Wound Care Award of the American Professional Wound Care Association. In October 2013, she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 2014, she was selected a Walter Rand Institute Faculty Fellow to study the health problems of Southern New Jersey with a focus on diabetes. In 2015, she was inducted into the National League For Nursing Academy of Nursing Education Fellows. In 2018, she was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice for Nursing. She was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers University Camden. Currently, she is Deputy Editor of the Journal of WOC Nursing.
Disclosures
- Janice M. Beitz, PhD, RN, CS, CNOR, CWOCN-AP, CRNP, APNC, ANEF, FNAP, FAAN, faculty for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
- None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
- This educational activity is supported by NetHealth.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
- Analyze societal context of modern litigious health care practice with implications for practice.
- Examine critical aspects related to legally defensible quality documentation to be able to document appropriately.
- Describe implications for contemporary wound care and nursing practice for patient care and documentation.
Course Originally Released on: 5/4/2023
Date of Most Recent Review: 5/4/2023
Course Termination/Update Date: 5/31/2026
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