Law and nursing
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Law and nursing
Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2007
3rd ed.
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The new and fully updated edition of this leading textbook places law in the context of nursing practice today. Recent developments examined include the Human Tissue Act 2004, which regulates the use of human material for research and transplantation purposes; the Mental Capacity Act 2005, which regulates treatment concerning patients lacking mental capacity; new developments in patient safety and risk management; and the revised NHS patient complaints system.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the nurse and the legal environment
- Nursing negligence: general issues
- Patient safety, litigation and complaints in the NHS
- Legal aspects of expanded role, clinical guidelines and protocols and nurse prescribing
- Consent to treatment I: general principles
- Consent to treatment II: children and the mentally ill
- Privacy, confidentiality, and access to health care records
- Clinical research and the nurse
- Reproductive choice
- The end of life
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