Law and nursing
By: Jean McHale, John Tingle
Contributors: Tingle, John
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Churchill, Livingstone/Elsevier
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780750688680
Subjects: Nursing; Nurses; Legislation & jurisprudence; Nursing Legislation; Law and legislation; Standards; Legal Liability; Malpractice; Professional Ethics; Nursing Care
Description: This book sets out the scope of the nurse's legal obligations and rights, highlighting certain ethical dilemmas in practice. When can a nurse 'blow the whistle' on poor standards of care? When does a patient have the right to die?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the nurse and the legal environment; title: Nursing negligence: general issues; title: Patient safety, litigation and complaints in the National Health Service; title: Legal aspects of expanded role, clinical guidelines and protocols, and nurse prescribing; title: Consent to treatment I : general principles; title: Consent to treatment II : children and the mentally ill; title: Privacy, confidentiality and access to health-care records; title: Clinical research and the nurse; title: Reproductive choice; title: The end of life; title: The NMC code of professional conduct: standards for conduct, performance and ethics.