Ethical and Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing E-Book (eBook)

Pamela Adams, Margaret Keatings (Autoren)

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2019 | 4. Auflage
400 Seiten
Elsevier Health Sciences (Verlag)
978-0-323-69796-5 (ISBN)

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Prepare for practice with the essential text dedicated to Canadian legal and ethical issues

• Greater number of Case scenarios encourage critical thinking, discussion, and debate among you and fellow students or among practitioners and colleagues.
• The latest legislation, nursing standards, guidelines, references, trends, principles, theories and models.
• Critical Thinking: Discussion Points at the end of every chapter test your comprehension of the material.
• Clear and straightforward writing style presents information in the way that you will encounter ethical and legal issues in day-to-day practice.
• Key terms are indicated in bold type and are further defined and explained in the Glossary.

• NEW
• NEW Additional Case Scenarios, tables and figures help to illustrate complex topics and pertinent concepts.
• NEW Revised 2017 CNA Code of Ethics incorporated into text
• NEW Redesigned text layout improves text readability and visual appeal.

Margaret Keatings, RN, MHSc

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- NEW! Thoroughly updated and expanded coverage of top-of mind ethical and legal topics concerning mental illness, vulnerable populations, refugees, LGBTQ persons, advancing technologies, social media, violence in the workplace, regulatory management of entry to practice, the scope of various categories of nurses, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), social justice, and much more!- NEW! Revised coverage of the Canadian judicial system and the role of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms includes discussion of professional liability insurance concerns, new discussion of the trial process in relation to medical malpractice and negligence claims, review of current case law regarding consent and Indigenous rights, and more. - NEW! Additional Case Scenarios, tables and figures help to illustrate complex topics and pertinent concepts. - NEW! UNIQUE! Revised 2017 CNA Code of Ethics incorporated into text- NEW! Cross-country examples of regulatory and legal issues cover a large number of provinces and territories. - NEW! Redesigned text layout improves text readability and visual appeal.