Law and nursing / Jean McHale, John Tingle.
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TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Churchill-Livingstone Elsevier, 2007.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780750688680 (pbk.) :
- 9780750688680 (pbk.) :
- 344.0414 MCH
- KD2968.N8 M34 2007
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Previous ed.: Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
Previous ed.: 2001.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the nurse and the legal environment; Nursing negligence: general issues; Patient safety, litigation and complaints in the NHS; Legal aspects of expanded role, clinical guidelines and protocols and nurse prescribing; Consent to treatment I: general principles; Consent to treatment II: children and the mentally ill; Privacy, confidentiality, and access to health care records; Clinical research and the nurse; Reproductive choice; 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?