Upcoming CE Classes
Collective Patient Advocacy Series: Strategies to Secure Safe Staffing Standards and RN Patient Advocacy Rights
(Nov. 19, 2008 — Lima, OH and Nov. 20, 2008 — Covington, KY)
Course Description
This class examines the key elements of the National Hospital Patient Protection Legislation which includes:
(1) safe staffing by patient acuity and ratios; (2) RN rights as patient advocate; (3) RN/patient whistle-blower protection of this landmark legislation and its impact on patient protection and the RN right to advocate in the exclusive interest of the patient.
Collective Patient Advocacy Series: Strategies to Secure Safe Staffing Standards and RN Patient Advocacy Rights
(Oct. 29, 2008 — Tucson, AZ ~ Oct. 30, 2008 — Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ ~ Oct. 31, 2008 — Sedona, AZ)
Course Description
This class examines the key elements of the National Hospital Patient Protection Legislation which includes:
(1) safe staffing by patient acuity and ratios; (2) RN rights as patient advocate; (3) RN/patient whistle-blower protection of this landmark legislation and its impact on patient protection and the RN right to advocate in the exclusive interest of the patient.
Nursing Contexts: Caring as Effective Patient Advocacy (October 9 - October 30, 2008 - Cities in CA)
Course Description
With the professional knowledge and extended contact necessary to recognize a patient’s care needs, the RN is uniquely positioned to ensure that those needs are met. For this reason, patient advocacy is essential to the RN mission of patient care. How can nurses’ relationships to their employer and to each other be structured to enable them to fulfill this mission, representing the best interests of patients within the institution and in its larger social context as well? What are the implications of labor-management partnerships for the nursing profession? This class will introduce participants to a variety of models of employment relations and explore their implications for patient advocacy.
Nursing Ethics Uniting Caring,Patient Advocacy, and Social Action (October 7, 2008 - February 19, 2009 - Cities in CA)
Course Description
Given their unique role in healthcare, nurses have special ethical responsibilities. The nature of our modern healthcare system often places conflicting demands upon nurses. This pressure contributes to the stress and burn out experienced by so many registered nurses. When the nurse’s ethical responsibilities to her/his patient are being constrained by larger systemic pressures, what is the right thing for the nurse
to do?
This course explores the fundamental principles of nursing ethics and encourages reflection on and discussion about personal and professional values within nursing practice contexts. Participants will analyze some of the most common and difficult ethical dilemmas faced by nurses today due to financially-motivated administrative decisions. These dilemmas will be analyzed with consideration to ethical reasoning and decision-making. Means of overcoming barriers to ethical nursing practice will be explored both as individual solutions and social responses such as alternative healthcare systems like a single-payer system.
Collective Patient Advocacy Series: Strategies to Secure Safe Staffing Standards and RN Patient Advocacy Rights
(October 10, 2008 - Nashville, TN)
Course Description
This course examines the impact of external forces on RN professional practice and patient advocacy role; it also
addresses mechanisms through which RNs can build stronger organizations to secure RN control over safe staffing ratios
and professional practice in Tennessee acute care settings; and identifies comprehensive strategies to build an RN social advocacy
movement to achieve strong hospital patient and RN whistle blower protection mandates.
