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Nurse's legal handbook.
Holman Biotech Commons RT86.7 .N88 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Practice--United States.
- Nursing.
- Nursing--Practice.
- United States.
- Nursing ethics.
- Nursing--Law and legislation--United States.
- Nursing--Law and legislation.
- Ethics, Nursing.
- Legislation, Nursing.
- Malpractice--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Malpractice.
- Medical Subjects:
- Ethics, Nursing.
- Legislation, Nursing.
- United States.
- Malpractice--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Malpractice.
- Physical Description:
- x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Springhouse, Pa. : Springhouse Corp., [2000]
- Summary:
- This updated edition offers abundant advice from nurse-attorneys who are experts in health care and malpractice law, and broader coverage to include hospitals, home care, long-term care, assisted living, and other practice settings. easy-to-understand text explains how to protect licensure, legal consequences of drug errors, risks of supervising unlicensed assistive personnel, nurses' rights, patients' rights, and the pitfalls of living wills. The guide provides current views on use of restraints, telephone triage liability, abortion, euthanasia, and expanded coverage on the risks of managed care. Contents include nursing practice and the law, malpractice liability, legal aspects of documentation, nursing in a changing health care marketplace, types of law, an explanation of the judicial process, how to interpret legal citations, a glossary of legal and ethical terms, a court case citation index, and a general index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0874349915
- OCLC:
- 42643691
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