Product Description
2022.Wolters Kluwer Lippincott 6 Edition Here is the current authoritative tool you need as you weigh potential ethical issues and make important decisions for you and your patients. Nurse\u2019s Legal Handbook works as your personal legal nurse consultant, with practical direction on how to navigate legal ethics, pitfalls, and preventative steps. This indispensable handbook demonstrates the issues with recent nursing malpractice cases, to help you be protected and informed regarding your legal rights, risks, and responsibilities as a nurse._x000D_
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Get informed on current laws, practice standards, and areas of legal liability …_x000D_
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\u00b7 NEW Current laws and trends in litigation that affect nursing_x000D_
\u00b7 NEW Current legal/ethical controversies, including: the definition of death; the nurse's response to a patient request to stop treatment_x000D_
\u00b7 NEW Legal guidance on:_x000D_
o How to protect yourself from being sued for nursing negligence_x000D_
o The importance of professional liability insurance_x000D_
o The litigation process, and the four elements needed to prove nursing negligence or malpractice_x000D_
o Signs you are at risk for civil or criminal prosecution_x000D_
o What to do if you are named as a defendant_x000D_
o Testifying as a nurse expert_x000D_
o Nursing documentation as the best courtroom evidence_x000D_
o How testifying experts use medical records in malpractice litigation_x000D_
o The effects of Good Samaritan Laws on nursing_x000D_
o Making ethical decisions; ethical relationships with patients and coworkers_x000D_
o Your employee rights; the meanings of employee contracts; and whistleblowing_x000D_
\u00b7 NEW How the states\u2019 Nurse Practice Acts and the current American Nurse Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice regulate quality of care_x000D_
\u00b7 NEW How nursing standards and hospital policies affect court decisions_x000D_
\u00b7 NEW Ethical issues raised by landmark cases: End of life, quality of life; laws such as the Patient Self-Determination Act; violence against nurses and the ANA's response_x000D_
\u00b7 Crucial information for advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioners, legal nurse consultants, risk managers, critical care nurses, surgical nurses, nurse attorneys, emergency nurses, long-term care nurses, and nurse educators
