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- Nurse Practitioner Webinar Series
- March Webinar: Documentation: Your Best Defence
- InfoLAW: Consent to Treatment: The role of the nurse
Nurse Practitioner Webinar Series
The Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS) is pleased to provide a webinar series for nurse practitioners (NPs) that provides specific information to help NPs strengthen their legal risk management education. This five-part webinar series focuses on legal risk management in primary care, with new topics presented throughout the year. Details and registration link are below....
Read moreMarch Webinar: Documentation: Your Best Defence
Properly documenting patient encounters is both a legal and professional requirement that contributes to safe patient care and good clinical communications. Documentation has always been considered a critical nursing fundamental, but it has taken on increased importance in today’s ever-changing healthcare landscape. Learn about how documentation may be used in a legal context.
Read moreInfoLAW: Consent to Treatment: The role of the nurse
Consent may be implicit or explicit. Holding out an arm to have a blood pressure taken is implicit consent, whereas an ECG or blood gases may require explicit consent. The main types of consent in the health care setting are general consent as required for admission to and basic care in a health care facility...
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