Legal and Regulatory Healthcare Requirements Seminar

Catalog description

This course will advance the professional nurse’s knowledge about legal and regulatory requirements within an increasingly complex healthcare delivery system. Understanding healthcare’s legal and regulatory landscape is vital to optimal patient care as it allows nurses to anticipate and potentially prevent adverse outcomes. Students will investigate healthcare regulations and compliance at state and national levels. Nurses’ expanding roles make it increasingly important to know state licensure requirements, scope of practice, and mandatory reporting laws, along with federal regulations such as security, privacy, and breach notification rules. Nurses are being held independently responsible and increasingly subject to felony charges for malpractice. Risk mitigation is vital. As a Seminar course, students will participate in and moderate current issue discussions such as social media risks, the complexities of nursing’s role in informed consent, the connections between law and ethics, and more. Students will also learn the media tool Panopto and show competency in this course through the use of Panopto to create a presentation on a chosen legal/regulatory issue. ”This is an Experiential Learning Course”