UPCOMING CE CLASSES
Forces of Magnetism: Their Impact on RN Autonomy, Independent Judgment, and Advocacy (June 13 – 30 – Cities in CA.)
This course examines how the professional models of care, nursing leadership, and management style promoted by magnet status designation schemes impact the registered nurse’s ability to exercise independent professional judgment and advocate in the exclusive interest of the patient; and the impact of the requirement that hospitals are mandated to demonstrate it has a mechanism in place that analyzes patient outcome data while incorporating clinical decision-making technologies.
Nursing Ethics: Uniting Caring, Patient Advocacy, and Social Action (June 10 – July 3 – Cities in CA.)
Given their unique role in health care, nurses have special ethical responsibilities. The nature of our modern health care system often places conflicting demands upon nurses. This pressure contributes to the stress and burn out experienced by so many registered nurses. When the nurse’s ethical responsibilities to her/his patient are being constrained by larger systemic pressures, what is the right thing for the nurse to do?
This course explores the fundamental principles of nursing ethics and encourages reflection on and discussion about personal and professional values within nursing practice contexts. Participants will analyze some of the most common and difficult ethical dilemmas faced by nurses today due to financially-motivated administrative decisions. These dilemmas will be analyzed with consideration to ethical reasoning and decision-making. Means of overcoming barriers to ethical nursing practice will be explored both as individual solutions and social responses such as alternative healthcare systems like a single-payer system.
Collective Patient Advocacy Series: Strategies to Secure Safe Staffing Standards and RN Patient Advocacy Rights
(May 20 – Youngstown, OH - May 22 Dayton, OH)
This class examines the key elements of the Ohio Hospital Patient Protection Legislation which includes: (1) safe staffing by patient acuity and ratios; (2) RN rights as patient advocate; (3) RN/patient whistleblower protection of this landmark legislation and its impact on patient protection and the RN right to advocate in the exclusive interest of the patient.
Nursing Contexts: Caring as Effective Patient Advocacy (March 18 – May 28 – Cities in CA.)
With the professional knowledge and extended contact necessary to recognize a patient’s care needs, the RN is uniquely positioned to ensure that those needs are met. For this reason, patient advocacy is the heart of the RN mission of patient care. How can work relationships in a healthcare institution be structured to enable nurses to fulfill this mission, representing the best interests of patients within the institution and in its larger social context as well? This class will introduce participants to a variety of models of work relations and explore their implications for patient advocacy.
Wall Street or Well Street: Patient Advocacy in the New World of Healthcare (January 29 – May 29 – Cities in CA.)
Today healthcare in the United States stands at a crossroads. Americans agree: the healthcare industry is too costly and fails to provide adequate patient care. In the upcoming 2008 presidential election year, politicians and business leaders will claim they have the solution: heath insurance reform and the technological restructuring of hospital care.
This course will examine the central alternatives in these debates: a single-payer system or public subsidies for private health insurance; and technological innovations that support rather than replace skilled nursing at the bedside. Finally we will consider how nurse advocates can lead politicians and industry leaders to a "new world" of healthcare that is financially sound and that puts patients first.
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