Legal aspects of nursing
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Legal aspects of nursing
Pearson Education, 2011
6th ed
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Legal Aspects of Nursing is your indispensible guide to the law for the nursing and health-care professions. It covers everything you need to know, from outlining how the legal system works and general legal issues relating to medicine, right through to specialist areas of nursing, such as working with children or the elderly.
Table of Contents
Part I General principles affecting all nurses
1. Introduction: four arenas of accountability, the legal system and human rights
2. Actions in the criminal courts and defences to criminal charges
3. Liability in a civil court case for negligence
4. Specific problem areas in civil liability: personal liability of the nurse, vicarious liability of the employer and managerial issues
5. Statutory functions and management of the NHS
6. Progress of a civil claim: defences and compensation
7. Consent to treatment and informing the patient
8. Data protection: confidentiality and access
9. Record keeping, statements and evidence in court
10. The nurse and employment law
11. The nurse as a registered professional
12. Health and safety and the nurse
Part II Specialist areas
13. Children and young persons
14. Midwifery
15. The nurse on the gynaecology ward
16. Acute care
17. Learning disabilities
18. Nurse educator and researcher
19. Legal aspects of the care of older people
20.Nursing the mentally disordered
21. Accident and emergency, outpatients, genito-urinary departments and day surgery
22. Human fertility and genetics
23.Community and primary care nursing
24. Scope of professional practice, clinical nurse specialist and consultant nurse
Part III General areas
25. Legal aspects of property
26. Legal aspects of AIDS and other infectious diseases
27. Handling complaints
28. Legal aspects of medicines
29.End of Life Care and death
30. Complementary and alternative therapies
31. The future
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