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Nurse's Legal Handbook

Nurse's Legal Handbook

9781496302601
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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!

Here is the current authoritative tool you need as you weigh potential ethical issues and make important decisions for you and your patients. Nurse’s Legal Handbook works as your personal legal nurse consultant, with practical direction on how to navigate legal ethics, pitfalls, and preventative steps. This indispensable handbook demonstrates the issues with recent nursing malpractice cases, to help you be protected and informed regarding your legal rights, risks, and responsibilities as a nurse.

Get informed on current laws, practice standards, and areas of legal liability …

· NEW Current laws and trends in litigation that affect nursing
· NEW Current legal/ethical controversies, including:: the definition of death; the nurse's response to a patient request to stop treatment
· NEW Legal guidance on::
o How to protect yourself from being sued for nursing negligence
o The importance of professional liability insurance
o The litigation process, and the four elements needed to prove nursing negligence or malpractice
o Signs you are at risk for civil or criminal prosecution
o What to do if you are named as a defendant
o Testifying as a nurse expert
o Nursing documentation as the best courtroom evidence
o How testifying experts use medical records in malpractice litigation
o The effects of Good Samaritan Laws on nursing
o Making ethical decisions; ethical relationships with patients and coworkers
o Your employee rights; the meanings of employee contracts; and whistleblowing
· NEW How the states’ Nurse Practice Acts and the current American Nurse Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice regulate quality of care
· NEW How nursing standards and hospital policies affect court decisions
· NEW Ethical issues raised by landmark cases:: End of life, quality of life; laws such as the Patient Self-Determination Act; violence against nurses and the ANA's response
· Crucial information for advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioners, legal nurse consultants, risk managers, critical care nurses, medical/surgical nurses, nurse attorneys, emergency nurses, long-term care nurses, and nurse educators
Product Details
Wolters Kluwer Health
57161
9781496302601
9781496302601

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Publication date
2015
Issue number
6
Cover
paperback
Pages count
418
Dimensions (mm)
127.00 x 203.20
Weight (g)
408
  • Chapter 1
    Nursing Practice and the Law
    By Mariea Urubek, RN, MSN, JD

    Chapter 2
    Working in Diverse Clinical Settings
    By Leslie M. Durr, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC
    Chapter 3
    Patient’s Rights
    By Kelli M. Hansen, BSN, RN, CMCN, LNC, CSA

    Chapter 4
    Understanding Malpractice Liability
    By Rebecca F. Cady, Esq., BSN, CPHRM, DFASHRM

    Chapter 5
    Lawsuits and the Legal Process
    By Kristopher T. Starr, RN, MSN, JD, CEN, CPEN ?

    Chapter 6
    Legal Risks on the Job
    By Samantha M. Steiner, JD, RN

    Chapter 7
    Legal Aspects of Documentation
    Patricia Iyer, MSN, RN, LNCC

    Chapter 8
    Legal Risks While Off Duty
    By Taralynn R. Mackay, RN, JD

    Chapter 9
    Nurses’ Rights as Employees
    By Lanette L. Anderson, MSN, JD, RN

    Chapter 10
    Ethical Decision Making
    By Frances W. Sills, MSN, APN, CLNC, RN

    Chapter 11
    Ethics in Nursing Practice
    By Edith Brous, RN, BSN, MS, MPH, JD
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