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Purchase access to this issue of Healthcare Risk Management, including Continuing Education!

No other publication in healthcare offers more of the latest peer reviewed news, blended with dozens of ideas, strategies, and recommendations for reducing your facility's risk and liability. Healthcare Risk Management provides the most practical, authoritative guidance available for healthcare risk managers covering the broad range of challenges you face, including:

• improving patient safety;
• complying with government programs such HIPAA and making them work to your facility's benefit;
• reducing medical errors;
• staying on top of developing legislation and regulations;
• interpreting recent court decisions and determining whether they affect your facility, and if so, how.

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Faculty:

Nurse Planner:
Maureen Archambault, RN, HRM, CHRM, MBA, Managing Director, West Zone Healthcare Practice Leader, Marsh Risk and Insurance Services, Los Angeles.

Objectives:

The objectives of Healthcare Risk Management are to:

• Describe the legal, clinical, financial and managerial issues pertinent to risk management;
• Explain the impact of risk management issues on patients, physicians, nurses, legal counsel and management; and
• Identify solutions to risk management problems in healthcare for hospital personnel to use in overcoming the challenges they encounter in daily practice.

Target Audience:

This activity is intended for risk managers, health system administrators, and healthcare legal counsel.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.25 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour (15 per year).

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14749, for 1.25 Contact Hours (15 per year).

It is in effect for 24 months after the date of publication.

Instructions for Participation:

Nurses participate in this CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.