Full Description
Tonia Aiken's text takes a user-friendly, practical approach, and provides all the features nursing educators and students rely on for comprehensive legal and ethical advice. It includes chapters on risk management and conflict management, critical-thinking features, an emphasis on ethical issues, and examines the role of the nurse in the political process.
Contents
Part 1: Nursing Practice
1. Nursing Practice
Part 2: Nursing and the Law
2. Standards of Care
3. The Law
Part 3: Nursing Ethics
4. Lobbying
5. Ethics in Nursing
Part 4: Liability in Professional Practice
6. Intentional and Quasi-Intentional Torts
7. Common Areas of Negligence and Liability
8. Documentation and the Nurse
9. Electronic Documentation
10. Risk Management
11. Informed Consent
12. Facility Liability: Employment Issues
13. Liability of the Nurse Manager
14. The Nurse and the Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
15. The Expert
16. Professional Liability Insurance
Part 5: Professional Issues
17. The Nurse and the Contract
18. Conflict Management and the Nurse
