Nurse's Legal Handbook

Springhouse Publishing (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2000 | 3rd Revised edition
Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-87434-849-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This reference explains: how to avoid legal risks when off duty; what happens to an incident report; definitions of legal terms; and how the legal system works. Guidelines are offered on how to uphold living wills, to ensure patient privacy and to deal with ethical problems.

Inhalt

Nursing practice and the law; patients rights; legal risks and responsibilities on the job; legal risks while off duty; malpractice liability; legal aspects of documentation; nurses rights as employees; ethical decision making; ethical conflicts in clinical practice; ethical conflicts in professional practice; nursing in a changing health care marketplace. Appendices: types of law, understanding the judicial process, how to interpret legal citations; court case citations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.6.2000
• Zusatzinfo: index
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 127 x 204 mm
• Gewicht: 480 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• ISBN-10: 0-87434-849-8 / 0874348498
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87434-849-1 / 9780874348491
• Zustand: Neuware