Nurse's legal handbook
The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including compute...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2004], ©2004
Philadelphia, PA : c2004 Springhouse, PA : c2004 Philadelphia : [2004] |
| Edition: | 5th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Nursing practice and the law
- Working in diverse clinical settings
- Patients' rights
- Understanding malpractice liability
- Lawsuits and the legal process
- Legal risks on the job
- Legal aspects of documentation
- Legal risks while off duty
- Nurses' rights as employees
- Ethical decision making
- Ethical conflicts in clinical practice
- Nursing practice and the law
- Working in diverse clinical settings
- Patients' rights
- Understanding malpractice liability
- Lawsuits and the legal process
- Legal risks on the job
- Legal aspects of documentation
- Legal risks while off duty
- Nurses' rights as employees
- Ethical decision making
- 1 Nursing practice and the law
- 2. Working in diverse clinical settings
- 3. Patients's rights
- 4. Understanding malpractice liability
- 5. Lawsuits and the legal process
- 6. Legal risks on the job
- 7. Legal aspects of documentation
- 8. Legal risks while off duty
- 9. Nurses' rights as employees
- 10. Ethical decision making
- 11. Ethical conflicts in clinical practice.
- 1 Nursing practice and the law
- 2. Working in diverse clinical settings
- 3. Patients's rights
- 4. Understanding malpractice liability
- 5. Lawsuits and the legal process
- 6. Legal risks on the job
- 7. Legal aspects of documentation
- 8. Legal risks while off duty
- 9. Nurses' rights as employees
- 10. Ethical decision making
- 11. Ethical conflicts in clinical practice.