Controversial issues and questions of special concern are explored, for example: * When can a nurse 'blow the whistle' on poor standards of care? * When does a patient have the right to die? All authors work with, advise and lecture to nurses and have been widely published on legal and professional matters. Their combined experience is encapsulated in this essential and practical source of contemporary information.
Controversial issues and questions of special concern are explored, for example: * When can a nurse 'blow the whistle' on poor standards of care? * When does a patient have the right to die? All authors work with, advise and lecture to nurses and have been widely published on legal and professional matters. Their combined experience is encapsulated in this essential and practical source of contemporary information.
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978-0-7506-1594-5 (9780750615945)
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
Introduction; The Nurse and the Legal Environment; Nursing Negligence - General Issues; Patient Complaints; Legal Aspects of Expanded Role; Consent - General Principles; Consent - Children and the Mentally Ill; Confidentiality and Access to Records; Clinical Research and the Nurse; The Nurse and the Employment Relationship; Litigation; Reproductive Choice; End of Life.
