Edie Brous, RN, JD is a licensed attorney in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Ms. Brous is a nurse license defense attorney and represents nurses before the State Nursing Boards. Ms. Brous speaks nationally on legal issues in nursing and is an active member of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA).
For additional information about Ms. Brous or to inquire about the legal services offered by her firm, see http://www.ediebrous.com/index.html. Edie can be reached by telephone at 212-989-5469.
Ms. Brous with the Law Offices of Edith Brous, Esq. R.N. is presenting the following Nursing Law & Order webinars:
Monday, April 1, 2013 from 6pm to 7:30pm EDT
State Nursing Boards Complaints: The Who, What, When, Why & Where?
The cost is $20.00. No CE credit is provided. To register click on the link below:
| Registration Link: http://nursinglaw.enterthemeeting.com/m/YSCWIDRP |
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Monday, April 8, 2013 from 6pm to 7:30pm EDT
Adjudication: What does a Hearing before the State Nursing Board Really Mean?
The cost is $20.00. No CE credit is provided. To register click on the link below:
Registration Link: http://nursinglaw.enterthemeeting.com/m/GZ7RNKJ1
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Friday, April 26, 2013 from 6pm to 7:30pm EDT
Criminal Convictions, the State Nursing Board and Nursing Students Seeking Initial Licensure
The cost is $20.00. No CE credit is provided. To register click on the link below:
Registration Link: http://nursinglaw.enterthemeeting.com/m/YVVSJZMI
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I am pleased to offer webinars to nurses, nursing students, and others interested parties to learn more about the law, legal issues, and legalities in nursing practice. The focus of the April 2013 webinars is the State Nursing Board and Nursing Law & Order is offering a total of 16 webinars this month touching on the State Nursing Board.
Why the State Nursing Board? Nurses are more likely to be reported to the State Nursing Board Board and investigated for a complaint than to be named and sued as an individual defendant in a nursing malpractice or medical malpractice case. However nursing education, in-services, and seminars tend to focus more on nursing negligence than State Nursing Board Complaints against nurses.
I can remember when I was in nursing school back in 60s (just kidding) and the only mention of liability concerned nursing negligence and medical malpractice. Then after graduating from nursing school in 1993 and 1994, most of the seminars I have attended that may have a topic or two on legal issues, the focus is usually documentation, negligence, and malpractice.
You may ask whose role is it to educate nurses and nursing students on the law, legalities, and legal issues in nursing practice? Does the role belong to individual nurses, nursing schools/colleges/programs, nursing employers, nursing unions, nursing professional associations, or another party?
Nursing Law & Order is doing its part to educate nurses and nursing students on the law and the legal pitfalls in nursing practice. This is what I always considered Phase II to my license defense practice and I praise God that this is finally the year I am able to move forward with another component in my dream career.
What is your dream career? Are you working in your dream career? If not, build it.
My law practice is evolving and risk management is the next component. Risk Management is usually associated with facilities and organizations however the term is applicable to individual nurses. I will always be a nurse license defense attorney and practice law before the State Nursing Boards but I have to reach up, down, back, around, and forward to educate, inspire, comfort, and help other nurses and nursing students with legal issues proactively. I feel this is my calling and having a nurse license defense practice was just the beginnning. This feels right and I am looking forward to a glorious 2013.
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