RiskManager

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    Is this a thing? POA abuse?

    RiskManager replied to Momma1RN's topic in General Nursing

    Geez louise. As the risk manager, I would ask her to produce the paperwork for my inspection giving her the claimed legal rights. In the absence of such paperwork, and if I felt the patient was...
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    Meaning of your username?

    RiskManager replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

    I should probably do more of that,
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    HELP! I have to write policies now??!

    RiskManager replied to ArisTomas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As a risk manager, I write a ton of policies. I am a big believer in not reinventing the wheel. One of the first things I do when writing a new policy is to Google for the policy. For example, I...
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    Meaning of your username?

    RiskManager replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

    I am hoping the end result is closer to that than a Code
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    Meaning of your username?

    RiskManager replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

    Grimaces and bears down, trying ever so hard to grow some hair. On my head, that
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    Meaning of your username?

    RiskManager replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

    My
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    Nursing Vs. Teaching

    RiskManager replied to Ashbeelee's topic in General Nursing

    My wife has been an elementary school teacher for a couple of decades. Teaching is less physically demanding than bedside nursing, but it certainly has its own level of emotional stress from the...
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    My boss looked in my EMR for my miscarriage

    RiskManager replied to Christina12345's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    The risk manager/compliance officer here thinks you should file a complaint with your compliance or privacy officer. They can sort things out in short
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    Reasons to lose nursing license?

    RiskManager replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    In my work with nurses and our state disciplinary board, the most common reasons for having a license sanctioned are (in order): diversion, theft from patients, substance use/abuse issues, quality of...
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    Patient threat and HIPAA

    RiskManager replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I make these reports to law enforcement and others all the time based on explicit threats of violence from a patient. Below is the Federal statutory language allowing this. In my opinion, this is...
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    Why the MBA in nursing grad programs?

    RiskManager replied to b-hutch's topic in General Nursing

    It is to train the student for upper management roles inside or outside of the nursing service lines. A MBA or MHA is pretty much considered a necessary prerequisite for such
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    Patient drives off after anesthesia

    RiskManager replied to sungrl01's topic in General Nursing

    When this happens in my facility, and it happens from time to time, I instruct my staff to call 911 to report an impaired driver, and we give the identifying information of the driver; and then an...
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    Hospital ship RN employment

    RiskManager replied to emgmag's topic in Government, Military

    My ex-wife was a Chief Corpsman and did a couple of Pacific Partnership missions on the Mercy out of San Diego. I recall her saying that nursing staff came on board when the ship was ramped up to...
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    How to handle allegations of sexual impropriety

    RiskManager posted a topic in General Nursing

    When the Curtain Is Drawn: Handling Accusations of Misconduct | Medpage Today This article is geared more towards independent providers, but there is useful information here applicable to many...
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    Looking for some great advice ......New to Quality Improvement

    RiskManager replied to JordiesMomRN's topic in Quality Improvement

    https://www.ncqa.org/Portals/0/Publications/Resource%20Library/NCQA_Primer_web.pdf http://cmss.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CMSS-Quality-Primer-layout.final_.pdf...
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    Pre employment drug testing in Washington state. Urine or hair test?? Providence.

    RiskManager replied to kate_l_'s topic in Washington Nursing

    I did risk management, patient safety and compliance as an executive at Providence Corporate in Renton. The standard pre-employment drug screening for Providence facilities is a urine test. Be...
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    MSN in Patient Safety & Quality

    RiskManager replied to lucy100's topic in Quality Improvement

    I do risk, quality and patient safety for a living and am a department head/hiring manager in that field. I personally do not hire anyone who does not have additional training or specific experience...
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    NSO malpractice insurance

    RiskManager replied to elcid123's topic in General Nursing

    https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/one-healthcare-risk-999441.html Read the above article. The short answer to your question is that in no event will the insurance cover you for...
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    RCA meeting

    RiskManager replied to RnH15's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/what-to-expect-995688.html Here is a good thread in which we discuss this very
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    3/19 What I learned this week: more about employment laws than anything else

    RiskManager replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Going back to the OP, I am amazed at the number of responses to workplace complaint issues to 'call your malpractice insurer'. The malpractice insurer does not care about this since they do not cover...
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    Patient education and documentation.

    RiskManager replied to statcoffee's topic in Patient Education

    ^^^If this is indeed what the OP is asking, to go back and retrospectively document, I think it is generally a bad idea. I don't know if your hospital uses an EHR, but many EHR systems are set to...
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    How to get the battery out of a fob watch?

    RiskManager replied to abigailmaisie's topic in General Nursing

    If you are referring to opening the case, you need a watch case back opener: Amazon.com: Generic Watch Back Case Opener Remover Removal Knife Repair Tool: Sports & Outdoors If you are referring to...
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    Favorite sayings

    RiskManager replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Nursing Humor

    When everything is going well: Things are ginger peachy! When everything is not going well: This is indeed a sticky
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    Can blogging hurt or harm your career

    RiskManager replied to btcoonhound's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Interview with Dr. Flea | ScienceRoll I can say only that you are ever involved in a malpractice case, never blog about it. The famous case of Dr. Flea illustrates this. I was actually following his...
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    Should I Carry Nursing Malpractice (Liability) Insurance?

    RiskManager replied to sirI's topic in Nursing Career

    I am pretty sure that for individual nursing coverage, CNA is not a direct writer. This means that you cannot buy CNA insurance directly from CNA, you have to go through an agent. If you already have...