Sample Topics

• Leverage Against Malpractice Suits:  How to Avoid Being Sued….Sometimes (Beyond Good Medicine: The Art of Risk Management)
  • Personal risk management strategies
  • Communications
  • Informed consent
  • Management of adverse outcomes
  • Documentation
• The Management of Bad Results:  The Patient, the Organization and the Physician
• Accidents Waiting to Happen: System Failures and Adverse Outcomes  (Preventing Errors and Injuries)
  • System failures and adverse obstetrical outcomes
  • Introduction to the patient safety movement
  • Introduction to the high reliability organization
  • How accidents happen in complex organizations
  • The importance of teamwork in avoiding errors
• Teaching Risk Management to Physicians
• What You Are Up Against: The Medical Legal Climate in America
• The Disruptive Physician:  A Hidden Threat to Health Care
  • The spectrum of disruptive physician behavior
  • How disruptive behavior increases the risk for errors and hurts the organization
  • How to manage disruptive behavior
  • Legal issues associated with disruptive behavior
• Interprofessional Communications as a Key to Avoiding Injuries and Patient Safety
  • Differences between nurse and physician styles of communication
  • How to communicate with physicians
  • Chain of command issues and legal duties of the nurse
  • P.U.R.E. conversations in obstetrics: Taking SBAR to a higher level (full day workshop)
• Specific Obstetrical Topics:
  • Obstetrical documentation
  • System failures and obstetrical injuries
  • Medical legal issues surrounding neonatal circumcision
  • A humane approach to neonatal circumcision
• The Litigation Distress Syndrome: Gaining Perspective and Control
  • Why physicians are so severely affected by lawsuits
  • Components of the litigation stress syndrome
  • Managing the litigation stress syndrome
  • What the organization can do to help the physician
• Sexual Misconduct, Impropriety, and Boundary Violations
  • Proper boundaries
  • Warning signs
  • Communication issues
  • Chaperone Issues
• Should I Apologize?  A Guide for Physicians
  • The importance of apology in general
  • The importance of apology and disclosure in medicine
  • Why apology is difficult in medicine
  • How to apologize and disclose effectively
  • Legal ramifications associated with apology and disclosure
• The Placenta as a Risk Management Tool
  • Placental triage
  • The role of the delivering professional
  • Expert placental examination
  • The role of the registry
• Current Issues in Obstetric Liability
  • VBAC
  • Videotaping Deliveries
  • Cystic Fibrosis screening
  • Primary cesarean section on demand
  • Fetal monitoring errors
  • Cerebral palsy causation
  • Relationships with CNMs and WHNPs
• The Legal Aspects of Shoulder Dystocia
  • Risk Factors
  • Plaintiff’s strategies
  • Documentation issues
  • How to leverage your defense
• A Protocol for the Management of the Sick Newborn
• Avoiding Allegations of Oxytocin Misuse
  • The conflicting cultures of oxytocin administration
  • Elective inductions
  • Use and misuse of oxytocin
  • Management of tachysystole
• The components of a Safety-Oriented Labor and Delivery Unit: “Getting to Havarti”
  • Communication between team members and team work
  • Preparing for emergencies
  • Simulation training
  • Creation of appropriate departmental infrastructure
  • Effective peer review
      
    

Presentation Formats

• Live Presentations
• Audioconferences, Webinars
• Keynote Address
• Presentations to Medical Boards and Boards of Directors
• MC (Master of Ceremonies), Host and Summary Roles at Conferences
• Facilitate Workshops: Conferences, Seminars and Retreats