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Nurses Legal Handbook [Paperback]

Marcia Andrews (Editor), Kathy Goldberg (Editor), Howard Kaplan (Editor), Michael Shaw (Editor)

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Publication Date: March 1996 | ISBN-10: 0874348498 | ISBN-13: 978-0874348491 | Edition: 3rd

This reference tells how to avoid legal risks when off duty, what happens to an incident report, definitions of legal terms, and explanations of how the legal system works. Readers learn how to uphold living wills, ensure patient privacy, use restraints, understand employment contracts, and deal with ethical problems, to name a few. Dozens of actual court cases give practical advice. An added chapter addresses nursing's responsibilities under managed care. Contents cover contributors (including 11 nurse attorneys), foreword, nursing practice and the law, patient rights, legal risks and responsibilities on the job, legal risks while off duty, malpractice liability, legal aspects of documentation, nurses' rights as employees, ethical decision making, ethical conflicts in clinical practice, ethical conflicts in professional practice, nursing in a changing health care marketplace, glossary, appendices (types of law, understanding the judicial process, and how to interpret legal citations) court case citation index, and general index.

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Paperback: 422 pages
Publisher: Springhouse Pub Co; 3rd edition (March 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0874348498
ISBN-13: 978-0874348491
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,044,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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