Rachel Henderson, Ph.D.

If you were required to testify in court in defense of the care you provided to a patient, would your documentation be adequate to protect you from legal liability? If the care you provided came under scrutiny months or years after it occurred, would your documentation enable you to accurately describe the standard of care delivered to the patient? If you are not absolutely certain, you do not want to miss this program!

During this in-depth, interactive seminar, you will have the opportunity to review real court cases and learn from the actual testimonies provided by nurses' depositions. Rachel Cartwright, an independent legal nurse consultant, with over 29 years of clinical, management, and consulting experience, will provide you with the information you need to ensure that your documentation, whether hand-written or electronic, depicts a level of care that meets or exceeds applicable standards.

Low literacy is associated with several adverse health outcomes, including low health knowledge, increased incidence of chronic illness, poorer intermediate disease markers, and less than optimal use of preventative health services. Only 12% of adults are considered to have proficient health literacy according to a report in Modern Healthcare (2013). More than one third of all U.S. adults, which is about 77 million people, are categorized as having basic or below-basic levels of health literacy, according to data collected by federal agencies. The Health and Human Services Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy (May, 2010) focuses on strategies to reduce jargon in medical literature and making health-related websites more usable by providing more easy-to-follow health recommendations to the public. Interventions to mitigate the effects of low literacy have been studied, and some have shown promise for improving patient health and receipt of health care services.