Protecting Your License & Practice: Understanding Jurisprudence and Its Protections
CE Information
1.0 CERP creditCompletion Time
1 hour, 7 minutesAvailable Until
September 17, 2027Posted By
AACN Houston Gulf Coast ChapterNavigate
Overview
Specialties
Acute Care, Ambulatory Care, Case Management, Critical Care, Educational/Research, Emergency/Trauma, Family, Forensic, Geriatrics, Home Health, Hospice / Palliative, Informatics, Long Term Care, Management/Admin/Leadership, Medical/Surgical, Nursing Student, Perioperative, Professional Development, Quality / Risk Management, and Urgent CareClinical Topics
Patient OutcomesThis webinar aims to look at the specific rules, regulations, and legislations related to nursing practice, to ensure that nurses act within the bounds of the law. It will review guidelines set by the TX BON to help nurses understand the legal framework within which to operate.
Learning Objectives
1. Discuss the importance of decision tree resource from the Texas BON and its impact on nursing scope of practice
2. Describe how to approach delegation of duties and its implications for practice
3. List 2 position statements enacted by the Texas BON
Speakers

Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist/ECMO Specialist/Legal Nurse Consultant/Nursing Specialty Certification Expert
Lisa brings over 29 years of critical care nursing experience to her lectures. She earned her BA from Western Michigan University, her BSN from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and her MSN from Duke University School of Nursing as an Adult Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, was inducted as a Fellow in the inaugural class with the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists in 2019 and is a Fellow in the Society of Critical Care Medicine since 2012. Her experience includes Trauma/Surgical Critical Care and over 27 years of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Critical Care. Lisa currently works with Fresenius Medical Care Heart & Lung division as a Sr. ECMO Clinical Support Specialist for the Novalung support system. She also still cares for patients at the bedside as a clinical nurse at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in the CTICU, in Raleigh, NC. She lectures on various topics related to critical care, mechanical circulatory support, ECMO and as well as several certification review courses.
CE Information
This activity offers 1.0 CERP credit to attendees.
Accredited by AACN.
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved
by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, an accredited
approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on
Accreditation.
Disclosures
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved
by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, an accredited
approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on
Accreditation.
To receive continuing education credit for completion of this webinar,
the learner must complete the learning evaluation survey.
Activity Content
Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
11 questions
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