Using Professional Boundaries to Protect Patients and You in a Digital Age

Disclosures

Learner Outcome:

• All nurses will demonstrate increased knowledge by answering 3 reflective questions.

Objectives:

• Define professional boundaries and explain how power, trust, and patient vulnerability affect the nurse-patient relationship.
• Differentiate a boundary crossing, a boundary violation, and professional sexual misconduct in digital and in-person settings.
• Analyze risks associated with social media, texting, email, patient portals, telehealth, electronic records, online searching, and generative artificial intelligence.
• Apply a practical decision framework to common digital boundary dilemmas and identify when consultation, reporting, or corrective action is required.

Approval Statement(s):

• Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 18181, for 1.8 contact hours.

• Ames Heigh LLC awards ANCC Contact Hours

This ANCC activity will award 1.5 contact hours.

• In order to receive contact hours, you must read the learning activity, respond to the reflective questions, and submit the completed evaluation.

• The planning committee members, authors, and content reviewers of this Nursing Continuing Professional Development activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Expiration Date for Awarding Contact Hours: This activity expires September 30, 2029.

Fee: $15.00

Course Information

Course Instructor

Dierdre Rockeymoore Author