May 19, 2022
Caregiver Liability and Criminalization:
An Emerging Threat
Session Overview
The recent conviction and criminalization of a nurse for an unintentional medical error is only one example of the exploding risk to nurses, physicians, researchers, and allied healthcare workers.

Join us to address the threats to caregivers and solutions:
- The range of professional liabilities.
- Weaponization of H.R. by organizations.
- Confusion about legal representation.
- What we can learn from COVID stories.
- Insider threats to organizations.
- Teaming up with plaintiffs.
- Uncovering the cover up.

Learn from the stories of Julie Thao and Eric Cropp who were both convicted for unintentional medical error and the families of victims of medical error and systems failures.
We offer these online webinars at no cost to our participants.
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Webinar Video, and Downloads
Speaker Slide Set:
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CE Credit Information
Learning Objectives:
- Awareness: Participants will be aware of the threats, risk factors, and issues surrounding criminalization of caregivers after systems failures and unintentional errors causing patient harm.
- Accountability: Participants will learn about who might be accountable to drive a just culture and prevent improper criminalization of caregivers.
- Ability: Participants will learn what concepts, tools, and resources might be needed to reduce undue criminalization of caregivers.
- Action: Participants will learn what patient safety and law enforcement professionals think about actions that can be taken to reduce improper criminalization of caregivers.
CE Participation Documentation
TMIT Global, approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 15996, will be issuing 1.5 contact hours for this webinar. TMIT Global is only providing nursing credit at this time.
To request a Participation Document, please click here.
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