Managing Risk—what AMTA professional liability insurance covers and how to avoid using it.

This course introduces you to both professional liability insurance and ways to protect yourself from malpractice. When you finish this course you will be able to:
• Define basic insurance terms introduced in the overview.
• Define the four benefits of professional liability insurance and your responsibilities as an insured.
• Distinguish between the seven kinds of liability defined in this course.
• Describe the single most common cause of malpractice lawsuits.
• List five other methods you can use to prevent an incident after providing a safe environment and quality care.
• Describe the uses and limitations of an incident report.
• Describe how to limit risk where clients have a pinched sciatic nerve, have been burned with hot stone massage, or when linens cause a fire.

1. Insurance Terminology Overview
2. AMTA Professional Liability Coverage
3. Unique Terms for AMTA Coverage
4. Protecting Yourself from Malpractice
5. Intake Forms
6. Documentation
7. Your Scope of Practice
8. Client Privacy
9. Incident Reports
10. Risk Management Examples: Pinched Sciatic Nerve
11. Risk Management Examples: Hot Stone Massage Burns
12. Risk Management Examples: Hot Stone Massage Burns #2
13. Risk Management Examples: Linens Cause Fire

Shari Pataky

Course Expiration

Please note that you must complete each AMTA online learning course and pass the exam one year from the date of purchase. If you do not complete the course and pass the exam within one year, you will be required to re-purchase the course.

Online courses expire one year from the date of purchase. When a course expires, you will no longer have access to the course materials and will be required to re-purchase the course.

Course Approval Code(s)

LCEU0000229

Copyright

This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission of AMTA unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s massage therapy regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice for massage therapy.

Refunds

Online courses are non-refundable. AMTA will not cover fees incurred from duplicate payments, insufficient funds, stopped payments or credit/debit cards over credit limits.