Want to learn more about nursing accountability including accepting and rejecting assignments? Concerned about the legal implications of your decisions as a nurse?

What should you do if you check your assignments and find a task outside of your usual skill set? By helping you understand accountability in nursing, this course will help you weigh your options as nurse-to-patient ratios increase. Learning about nursing professionalism and legal liability will allow you to make educated decisions, for the good of both you and your patients.

For only $32, you will receive three weeks of unlimited, 24-hour access to the course materials, earning 5.4 contact hours. Sign up and start learning about professional accountability in nursing today!

Study the Accountability of Nurses in a Unique Online Format

• Utilize helpful features such as key terms, “Links to Knowledge” and visual/graphical aides as you explore the online course content.
• Solidify your knowledge by completing fun interactive exercises including multiple-choice and matching.
• Reflect on what you learn in the downloadable workbook, which includes short-answer and essay questions. Completion of the workbook may be necessary to meet board of nursing requirements.
• Evaluate your understanding of key concepts by completing the Post-Test. Score 75% or above to receive your contact hours!
• Guide yourself through the course and complete assignments at your leisure in the self-paced class format. Access the Professional Accountability and Legal Liability for Nurses course syllabus here (PDF 299 kb).

Learn to Practice Professionalism in Nursing

By learning about your rights and responsibilities within the health care environment, you increase your level of professionalism and show your commitment to the accountability of nurses.

Come Away with an Understanding of Accountability in Nursing

Master these course objectives:

• Understand the concept of professional accountability for nurses.
• Locate at least four resources that delineate professional accountability for nurses.
• Utilize elements of accountability when making assignments and delegating nursing care to other health team members.
• Apply the concept of professional accountability when deciding to accept or refuse patient care assignments.
• Participate in the "chain of command process."
• Carry out the duty of professional nurses to report incompetent, illegal, or unethical conduct of health team members.
• List the four elements required to establish nursing negligence.
• Distinguish between the various areas of the law that effect nursing practice.

Online registration is easy and your three weeks of unlimited access begins immediately after you register. Sign up for Professional Accountability and Legal Liability for Nurses today!

More About Your Professional Accountability and Legal Liability Authors

Beatrice Crofts Yorker is a nurse and an attorney who is currently the Director of the School of Nursing at San Francisco State University. She received her BS from Indiana University, her MS in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, and her Juris Doctor from Georgia State University. She has published extensively on the interface between health care, violence, and the law.

Laura Mahlmeister is president of Mahlmeister & Associates, a continuing education and risk management company. She has been a labor and delivery nurse for 31 years and continues to practice as a staff nurse in the birth center, at San Francisco General Hospital. She serves as an expert witness in nursing malpractice cases, for both plaintiff and defense firms, and has published both books and articles on clinical and legal issues in nursing practice.