Protecting Your Practice: You've Met the Standard, But Does Your Charting Back It Up? - F26OD244 - On-Demand

Intended Audience: All neonatal nurses.

Credits: 1 ANCC NCPD Contact Hour(s)

NCC Codes: NNP5

Learning Outcome: 1. Learners will increase their knowledge of common medical legal terms

2. Learners will increase their knowledge of common areas of medical-legal risks encountered in neonatal nurse practitioner practice.

Description: Neonatal nurse practitioners practice in a high-risk, high-stakes environment where medical-legal issues often arise despite providing excellent clinical care. Dr. Jones examines common legal pitfalls in the neonatal intensive care unit, focusing on documentation, scope of practice, standard of care, and risk awareness. Practical tools and real-world examples will be discussed with the goal of helping NNPs protect themselves and their professional practice.

Release Date: 9/10/2026

Expiration Date: 9/30/2029

Requirements for Completion: Participants must be registered for the conference, attend at least 90% of each session, and complete evaluations to earn ANCC NCPD contact hours.

Disclosures: No person with the potential to influence the content of this activity has declared a relevant financial relationship with an ineligible* company. Any exceptions to this disclosure are noted below.

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*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Track: Advanced Practice

Keywords: Standard of care, causation, documentation, professional practice

Jessica Jones, DNP, APRN, NNP-BC, C-NNIC

Clinical Assistant Professor

Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing

Jessica Jones has over 24 years of neonatal nursing experience, the last 19 of which have been spent practicing as an NNP. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the DNP program at Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing. She continues to have an active clinical practice in NICUs in both Tennessee and Tampa, Fl. She is an active member of ANN, NANNAP as well as being a board member with FANNP. Jessica recently relocated to east Tennessee where she resides with her husband and four kids, ages 9 to 15 as well as her emotionally needy dog, Bruno.