Law and nursing / Jean McHale, John Tingle.
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TextPublication details: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 282p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780750648066 (pbk.) :
- 0750648066
- 344.410417 MCH
- KD2968.N8 M34 2001
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Previous ed.: 1998.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: the nurse and the legal environment--2. Nursing negligence: general issues--3. Patient complaints--4. Legal aspects of expanded role and clinical guidelines and protocols--5. Consent to treatment 1: general principles--6. Consent to treatment 11: children and the mentally ill--7. confidentiality and access to health care records--8. clinical research and the nurse--9.reproductive choice--10. The end of life.
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?