It covers the four areas of accountability affecting all nurses namely civil liability, professional liability, criminal liability and accountability to the employer.
Each chapter contains the following: - learning objectives and outcomes - important legal concepts and phrases explained - summary at the end of each chapter - weblinks for further information and research.
Where legal concepts and terminologies are used, they are thoroughly and clearly explained in a 'non-legal' manner.
Up-to-date leading Irish and UK cases are used throughout the text.
The cases are broken into three sections: - The facts - The issues to be decided - The decision of the court. Followed by analysis and commentary on the important issues raised by the decision.
Problem questions based on factual scenarios, which test the student's application of principles, are provided at the end of each section.
Suitable for 1st and 2nd year degree nursing students at Universities and I.Ts and as a post-registration refresher text.
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 29 mm
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978-0-7171-3837-1 (9780717138371)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Neil Van Dokkum is a Law Lecturer, specialising in Nursing and Social Care Law, at the Waterford Institute of Technology. He previously practised as a barrister, and was also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Natal, in South Africa. He is author of three previous works, and has been published in many international journals and textbooks.
Part 1 - Professional Liability
1. A Statutory Overview
2. An Bord Altanais
3. Education of Nurses
4. The Fitness to Practice Committee
Part 2 - Civil Liability
5. Introduction to the General Principles of Tort
6. The Concept of Patient Autonomy
7. Informed Consent of Medical Treatment
8. Capacity of the Patient to give Informed Consent
9. The Mentally Incapacitated Adult Patient
10. The Consent of Parents to Medical Treatment of their Child
11. Full and Proper Disclosure to the Patient
12. Voluntary Consent
13. Exceptions to the Need for Informed Consent
14. The Duty of Care
15. The Standard of Care
16. Damages
17. Causation
18. The Legal Duty of Confidentiality
19. Personal Health Information
20. Permitted Disclosure of Information
21. The Consent of the Patient to Disclosure
22. Exceptions to the Duty of Confidentiality
23. Medical Records and the Common Law
24. Data Protection and Medical Records
Part 3 - Criminal Liability
25. Distinction between civil and criminal jurisdiction and liability
26. Criminal Responsibility
27. Drugs
Part 4 - Accountability to the Employer
28. The Common Law of Employment
29. Termination of the employment contract
30. Statutory Regulation of Employment
31. Health and Safety in the Workplace
32. Vicarious Liability and the Nurse
Part 5 - Problem Questions and Application of Principles
