The LNC Guide to Triage, Developmental Disabilities and Cardiovascular Advances

By Diane Honeygosky BSN RN CLNC, Deneene Bradford MSN MBA RN, and Ruth Pierce MBA MHA RN CCRN-K CPHQ

Emergency Room documentation is different from admission documentation. The ER is viewed and treated as an outpatient entity, so the documentation is geared toward the outpatient setting. Even in hospitals that utilize the same electronic medical record system, such as EPIC, the admission units do not have access to the ER nursing documentation.

How do you find this documentation?

• What is the expected process and the deviations that can arise.
• What are ESI and EMTALA as they relate to required documentation.
• How to interpret the ER triage documentation in the EMR.
  Reasons for delay in care.
• How QA figures into the equation.

The LNC’s Guide to Investigating an Abuse, Neglect, or Mistreatment Allegation Against an Individual with an Intellectual Disability

What are the critical steps needed to investigate an allegation?

You will discover an organized approach to efficiently investigate the allegation by all means possible:

• The process to analyze the data and draw a conclusion.
• How to determine if the outcome of the allegation will be substantiated or unsubstantiated.
• How to determine which federal regulation(s) the facility violated.

The LNC’s Guide to Cardiac Standards of Care

Care of the cardiac patient is an area of healthcare that is continually improving. How do you know if the patient was treated appropriately? Is the patient on the most current medical regimen? This session will provide a brief overview of key changes in cardiac disease management and how to locate the current standards of care.

• What are clinical practice guidelines and how to locate them.
• What are the key updates in cardiac disease management.
• Key terminology to understand.