Nurse's Legal Handbook - Softcover

Springhouse Publishing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874348498 ISBN 13: 9780874348491

Publisher: Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

This reference tells how to avoid legal risks when off duty, what happens to an incident report, definitions of legal terms, and explanations of how the legal system works. Readers learn how to uphold living wills, ensure patient privacy, use restraints, understand employment contracts, and deal with ethical problems, to name a few. Dozens of actual court cases give practical advice. An added chapter addresses nursing's responsibilities under managed care. Contents cover contributors (including 11 nurse attorneys), foreword, nursing practice and the law, patient 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, glossary, appendices (types of law, understanding the judicial process, and how to interpret legal citations) court case citation index, and general index.

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0874348498
• ISBN 13: 9780874348491
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 448