DO YOU PRACTICE USING BEST PRACTICES AND WORK WITHIN A CULTURE OF SAFETY? MOCK TRIAL – NURSING MALPRACTICE ISSUES 2018 TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00 – 4:00 Auditorium, Wells Fine Arts Center, Stephenville, Texas 5.0 Contact Hours

LOCATION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION This workshop is to assist nurses in identifying standards of care Mock Trial will be held in the auditorium of Tarleton’s Clyde H. that regulate nursing practice, basic legal terminology relevant to Wells Fine Arts Center, located at the intersection of Lillian and nursing negligence cases, and criteria for establishing negligence Vanderbilt Streets, two blocks north of West Washington. You in the practice of nursing. Legal implications of professional must have a parking tag to legally park on campus A parking pass nursing practice and documentation issues will be addressed. will be emailed when you complete registration. Refer to the parking pass for which parking lot to use. Campus Map: THE CASE http://map.tarleton.edu/map/?id=302#!ct/7135,19248,7136,713 7,6922,6923,7114,7115,7116,7117,7165,2827?m/71193

Mrs. Roundtree is a 59-year-old female admitted for coronary artery DO NOT PARK IN RESERVED SPACES. bypass surgery. Her progress through the hospital followed a normal progression with two days in the ICU following surgery. Four days post-op, she was transferred to the telemetry with routine transfer Temperature is difficult to control in the large auditorium orders: including PT/OT, progressive ambulation and bathroom privileges with assistance. She participated in therapy, but voiced so please bring a sweater. reluctance to get out of bed. She continued to request the bed pan.

The PCT encouraged her to ambulate to the bathroom. The family  Campus Bookstore requested the nurse help with her ambulation instead of the PCT. The  TSU Student Nurses Association

PCT discussed the situation with the RN and was told the patient was  STTI Tau Chi Chapter participating with PT and ambulating in the hallway, so continue to  Unique Scrubs ‘n More encourage her and assist her with ambulating to the bathroom. The PCT returned to the room and assisted Mrs. Roundtree to the Nancy Gaither, RN, MSN is TSU faculty member and bathroom. Once the patient was situated on the toilet, the PCT Coordinator of Nursing Professional Development. received a message to help in another room. She left Mrs. Roundtree and assured her she would be back shortly. The family discovered the patient unconscious on the floor of the bathroom. Who is liable?

. MOCK TRIAL – NURSING MALPRACTICE ISSUES TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00 – 4:00 Auditorium, Wells Fine Arts Center, Stephenville, Texas 5.0 Contact Hours

Program REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Mock Trial: Nursing Malpractice Issues Mock Trial: Nursing Malpractice Issues 2019

November 1, 2019

8:00 – 9:00 Registration November Tuition $20.00

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome

9:15 – 9:45 Presentation Registration forms will be available to complete 9:45 – 10:15 Jury Selection online at the below link. Hard copy, mailed

copy or faxed copy registration forms will not 10:15 – 10:30 Break be accepted this year. 10:30 – 11:45 Trial

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch (on your own) Mock Trial 2019 Registration

1:00 – 2:15 Trial Payment must be cash, check, or money order. 2:15 – 2:30 Break If you would like to use a credit card, you may pay online using this link: bit.ly/tsumocktrial19 2:30 – 3:45 Trial Wrap-up,

Deliberation, Decision

3:45 – 4:00 Question/Answer, If you plan on paying the day of Mock Trial please come a few minutes early to process payments. Evaluation

Tuition includes handouts and coffee/hot tea. Verification of participation and successful comp letion of this activity is obtained through the signed verification of attendance form, successful For further information you may contact (254) 968- completion of the objectives and the evaluation 9139 or email Ms. Nancy Gaither at

Process. [email protected]

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Tarleton State University Nursing Professional Please register so we can have adequate Development is an approved provider of handouts; you may pay in advance or at the door. continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

You must be present by 9:15 and stay until 3:45 to receive contact hours for this seminar.