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1041-20:  Private Practice 101: A Risk Management Perspective

This interactive, didactic presentation provides risk management best practices to reduce patient complaints, investigations, and/or patient lawsuits related to high risk challenges in office practice. Participants will leave knowing risk mitigation strategies for the "what," "when," and "how" if terminating the patient relationship, releasing  records, obtaining informed consent, and documenting.

Presenters:  Anne Huben-Kearney, RN, BSN, MPA, CPHQ, CPHRM, DFASHRM; Allison Funicelli, MPA, CCLA, ARM, CPHRM

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty, with the exception of those listed below, have no relevant financial relationships to disclose All relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

The presenter has indicated a significant financial interest or other affiliation with Allied World.

Session Length:  1 hour 45 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Apply best practices and risk management strategies to reduce risk and improve documentation in high risk/litigious office practice situations.

Keywords:  Risk Management, Private Practice, Documentation

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 34th Annual Conference

Access to this course will end:  December 1, 2024

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