Today, more and more nurses find themselves responsible for monitoring complex physiological data, using sophisticated medical equipment, and exercising independent judgment when caring for their patients. Health care systems will continue to ask nurses to do more with less and burden them with increased autonomy, which brings with it a greater legal responsibility. As a nurse or professional involved in frontline health care, it is imperative that you are aware of your potential legal liabilities and strategies to minimize them.
This intensive one-day Osgoode Professional Development course was developed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of your legal responsibilities and risks and how to manage them. Given recent legislative reforms, it is even more critical that you’re equipped with the information to make sound, professional judgments, and know how to avoid the potential liability traps that exist in your everyday work. The course will further explain what the law is and how it applies from the special perspective of the professional nurse.
Topics covered include: medical malpractice, professional misconduct, consent to treatment, privacy and tackling harassment and violence in the workplace. The program ends with a mini-workshop on Charting and Documentation.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be better informed and have your questions answered by leading health law experts.
Chairs
Mary Jane Dykeman & Kate Dewhirst
Dykeman Dewhirst O’Brien LLP
Editors, Risk Management in Canadian Health Care (LexisNexis)
OPD Program Lawyer
Heather Gore
hgore@osgoode.yorku.ca |
