Full Description
The definitive guide to the law that all nurses need to know Written specifically for student nurses as well as those already in practice, Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing is your essential practical guide to the legal principles you need to be aware of in your everyday nursing practice.
Building on previous editions of the book by Bridgit Dimond, this 12th edition has been fully updated and revised in line with recent legal developments and the new Nursing standards to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of nursing law students.
Contents
Part I General principles affecting all nurses
Introduction: professionalism, the legal system and human rights
Actions in the criminal courts and defences to criminal charge
Liability in a civil court case for negligence
Specific problem areas in civil liability: personal liability of the nurse, vicarious liability of the employer and managerial issues
Statutory functions and management of the NHS
Progress of a civil claim: defences and compensation
Consent to treatment and informing the patient
Data protection: confidentiality and access
Record keeping, statements and evidence in court
The nurse and employment law
The nurse as a registered professional
Health and safety and the nurse
Part II Specialist areas
Children and young persons
The nurse and gynaecology
Acute care
Learning disabilities and safeguarding people
Nurse educator and researcher
Legal aspects of the care of older people
Nursing people with mental health problems or learning disability
Accident and emergency, outpatients, genito-urinary departments and day surgery
Human fertility and genetics
Community and primary care nursing
Scope of professional practice, clinical nurse specialist and consultant nurse
Part III General areas
Legal aspects of property
Legal aspects of public health
Handling complaints
Legal aspects of medicines
End-of-life care and death
Complementary and alternative therapies
The future
