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Nurse practitioner's business practice and legal guide / Carolyn Buppert, JD, MSN, Boulder, Colorado.
Holman Biotech Commons RT86.73 .B87 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buppert, Carolyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Practice--United States.
- Nursing.
- Nursing--Practice.
- Nurse practitioners--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Nurse practitioners.
- United States.
- Nurse practitioners--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Nurse Practitioners--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Nurse Practitioners--standards.
- Practice Management--organization & administration.
- Risk Management--methods.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nurse Practitioners--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Nurse Practitioners--standards.
- Practice Management--organization & administration.
- Risk Management--methods.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 515 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2018]
- Summary:
- "A must-have resource for every new or current nurse practitioner (NP) that explains and analyzes the legal issues relevant to NPs. Completely updated and revised, it includes a new chapter on answering frequently asked questions from NPs. In addition, it provides the latest state-by-state laws, including regulatory developments and prosecutions of NPs, and new case analyses with lessons learned from those cases"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What is a nurse practitioner?
- Legal scope of nurse practitioner practice
- State regulation of nurse practitioner practice
- Federal regulation of the nurse practitioner profession
- Prescribing
- Hospital privileges
- Negligence and malpractice
- Risk management
- Reimbursement for nurse practitioner services
- The employed nurse practitioner
- Practice ownership: legal and business considerations for the nurse practitioner owner
- Lawmaking and health policy
- Promoting the profession to the public
- Standards of care for nurse practitioner practice
- Measuring nurse practitioner performance
- Resolving ethical dilemmas
- Strategies for nurse practitioners
- Frequently asked questions from NPs, answered.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781284117165
- 1284117162
- OCLC:
- 961213970
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