Includes information on the updated EMTALA interpretive guidelines released by CMS on May 13, 2004.
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) violations dealing with screening, stabilization, or transfer provisions continue today, even though the government has finalized the EMTALA rule. It's a complex rule but you don't have to struggle with its demands.
The HCProfessor™ online learning course, Nursing CE Series: EMTALA for Case Managers and Nurses, will help clinical and non-clinical personnel understand their roles and responsibilities under this important federal law. This course will help you identify the extent and limits of these obligations and the legal risks attached to them. It will also answer questions that providers commonly have about the statute, including when EMTALA obligations begin and end, and physician on-call responsibilities under EMTALA.
Plus, you'll have the opportunity to earn one nursing contact hour!
Upon completion of the course Nursing CE Series: EMTALA for Case Managers and Nurses, learners will be able to identify:
- How EMTALA affects providers
- Two situations in which hospitals are obligated under EMTALA
- How EMTALA defines an emergency medical condition
- Three possible components of an appropriate medical screening examination
- The criteria for appropriate ways to discharge and accept patients
Learners will also be able to describe:
- Three conditions under which an RN may perform an initial assessment
- How case managers can mitigate the challenge of physicians unwilling to provide follow-up care
- How EMTALA violations affect your accreditation
- The recent trend in EMTALA fines and its implication for future compliance
Earn Nursing Contact Hours and CE Credit!
HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. With Nursing CE Series: EMTALA for Case Managers and Nurses, you'll also have the opportunity to earn one nursing contact hour.
This course is also pending approval by the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) for 2 (two) clock hours.
Intended audience
Clinical and nonclinical hospital staff, including:
- Directors of nursing
- Nurse managers
- Nurses
- Case managers
- Compliance officers
If you have 50 or more staff to train you are eligible for discounts and FREE trial access to any course. E-mail Dave Miller at davemiller@hcpro.com or call Dave toll-free at 888/209-6554 to learn more. Be sure to let Dave know your name, organization, address, and phone number (optional). Ask Dave about our multi-year or multi-library discount plans!
Take a look at some of the topics covered in Nursing CE Series: EMTALA for Case Managers and Nurses:
What is EMTALA?
- Recent trends
- How does EMTALA affect providers?
- EMTALA applies to everyone
What's new?
On-call duties "Comes to" the emergency department Hospital property and campus Off-campus hospital departments Hospital-owned ambulances Non-emergency departments Prudent layperson standard When are hospitals obligated under EMTALA?
- Determine when a person comes to the ED or arrives on hospital property
- Dedicated emergency department
- Areas that are not dedicated emergency departments
How EMTALA defines an emergency medical condition
What is an emergency medical condition? Pregnant women Psychiatric disturbances Patients who don't appear to have an emergency medical condition Providing an appropriate medical screening examination
- What is an "appropriate" medical screening exam and who performs the screening?
- Preventive services
Payments: How to get paid for emergency services
- Registration
- Advanced beneficiary notices (ABN)
- The OIG's interpretation
- If a patient asks about payment
Stabilizing patients
- Stabilization requirements
- When are patient considered "stable" for transfer?
- When patients refuse to be examined or treated
Transferring, discharging, and accepting patients
- When can hospitals transfer patients?
- If the physician is not present at the time of transfer
- When a patient requests transfer or refuses transfer
- Responsibilities of the receiving hospital
- Reverse dumping
- Patients who arrive via ambulance
On-call duties of medical staff members
- Specialists and on-call schedules
- The on call ratio myth
- If an on-call specialist won't come
Enforcement and penalties
- Potential penalties
- EMTALA violations and your accreditation
- Assessment
- Continuum of care
- Management of information
This course is part of HCProfessor's™ Nursing CE Series Online Learning Series
For more information on other courses in the series, click on the Online Learning section of this Web site. Or call Dave Miller toll free at 888/209-6554, or e-mail Dave. You can customize any online learning course to reflect your own policies and procedures.
Why train your staff online?
- The most up-to-date content on nursing issues
- Easy access to education-the courses can be taken anywhere there is a computer!
- Exams with instant test scores
- Case studies
- Test until success: The option of reviewing topics and re-taking taking the exam as often as you need
- Certificate of completion
- Student course history and documentation of training
- Discussion groups
- Note-taking and bookmark options
- Internet resources on nursing guidelines and regulations
- Reference materials and recommendations on how to progress to the next step in your nursing courses
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