Nurse's Legal Handbook (Paperback)

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The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including computer documentation, cloning, stem cell research, pain management, euthanasia, prescribing, privacy, and confidentiality as well as the nursing shortage. New topics include workplace violence and harassment, needlesticks, telephone triage, and quality assurance. A new Legal Tip logo highlights proactive, protective actions nurses can take, and an entire chapter explains step-by-step what to expect in a malpractice lawsuit.

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Product Details Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth Edition edition (January 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 1582552800 ISBN-13: 978-1582552804 Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,225 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?) #2 in  Books > Professional & Technical > Law > Family & Health Law > Health Law #4 in  Books > Nonfiction > Law > Family & Health Law > Health Law #7 in  Books > Professional & Technical > Law > Family & Health Law > Medical Law & Legislation

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth Edition edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582552800
• ISBN-13: 978-1582552804
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,225 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate Description of Other Professions..., August 7, 2007

By	G (Northeast USA) - See all my reviews

If the description of the PA profession is any indication of the caliber of this book, I wouldn't trust anything in it. The author is clearly misinformed as to what PAs are (they are physician assistants, no 's), what their capabilities are, what their training entails and what they are legally allowed to do. The author's definition of a PA is disingenuous and if this serves as the legal basis upon which nurses are supposed to be making decisions, it is completely inappropriate and ultimately hazardous to patient care.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars PAs defined by a Nurse?!, August 7, 2007

By	PAdvocate "PAdvocate/PAtient Advocate" (NC, USA) - See all my reviews

Until the definitions of Physician Assistants are accurate and corrected in printed and spoken word, this text is untrue and thus, misleading and misrepresentive.

The trend is that PAs are now on Masters level-- either at the onset of education or at the completion of the PA program. In this first decade of the 21st century, there will be a 100% increase in those PA numbers at the end of previous years. As much as some in both factions are loath to admit-- we are on the same team and should and indeed, do work together.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Physician Assistant misinformation, August 7, 2007

By	jmj "jmj" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

I was very disappointed to read Stacey Follin's (ed) description of my profession, Physician Assistants. I was perplexed how she could be so wrong. Either she is ignorant of our profession or she has a political agenda, either of which would cause one to doubt anything that they read in the book. To continue to spread this type of mis-information only contributes to animosity that some nurses feel toward PAs. Nurses and Physician Assistants are on the same team, with the same goal of providing quality, compassionate health care to our patients at reasonable cost.

To correct her statements, PAs typically have BS degrees plus at least two years of patient care experience before entering PA school. PA-medical school has a standard of 24 continuous months of very intensive training. Most PA schools lead to the Masters degree. There has never been, in the history of our profession, a PA program that "last a few months." We are not trained to "assist physicians." We are trained to practice medicine. National Certification was never "available" for PAs but is mandatory, requiring 100 hours of CME every two years and a very difficult national board exam every six.

I was an instructor in both a PA program and a Nurse Practitioner program. In my experience the curriculum of the PA program, in general, was much more challenging than that of the NP, so the efforts to dismiss the PA training as inferior is in poor taste.