Enhance Your Liability IQ: Top Reasons Nurses Get Sued for Malpractice

NSO & CNA released our fifth published analysis of nursing claims from the most recent 5 years. Professional liability data provides insight into the underlying causes in liability cases as it can reveal missteps, clinical errors, patterns of communication, and judgment failures that contributed to adverse events.

Using case studies and claim data, nurses can examine top areas of liability through the experiences of their peers. Most importantly, this session provides you with practice recommendations that you can use to help prevent or defend against malpractice allegations, while also enhancing patient safety.

Objectives:

• Identify the leading allegations made against nurses in malpractice lawsuits.
• Define average costs to defend nurses in malpractice lawsuits.
• Identify key risk management tools that nurses can incorporate into their practice to help improve patient safety and reduce risk and error.

This webinar is offered to WSNA members only, and attendees can earn 1.25 CNE. Can’t make it to the live presentation? Members are encouraged to attend even if they can’t make it to the live event, as all registrants will have access to the recording and CNE for 30 days post-event.

Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM, serves as the Vice President of Risk Management for the Nurses Service Organization (NSO) within Aon’s Affinity Insurance Services, Inc., Healthcare Division. With over 21 years of experience in the healthcare insurance industry, she specializes in risk management and is committed to educating nurses and healthcare professionals about professional liability risks.

Jennifer provides strategies to mitigate these risks by promoting patient safety principles and supporting the development of quality management programs. A frequent national speaker on healthcare risk and liability, she is also a published author on a variety of risk management topics.

She holds the Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM) designation and is a licensed Property & Casualty insurance agent. Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.