The evidence-based nursing guide to legal and professional issues.
Contributors: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780781788250
Subjects: Nursing -- Law and legislation -- United States; Legislation, Nursing -- United States; Ethics, Nursing -- United States; Evidence-Based Medicine -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law and the legal process; title: Patient's rights; title: Nurses' rights; title: Lawsuits and the legal process; title: Legal risks on the job; title: Legal rights off duty; title: Documentation and the law; title: Ethics versus the law; title: Ethical conflicts in nursing practice.