Full Description
Understanding ethics and law in health care is an essential part of nurse and midwife professional standards, and a core component of qualifying programmes. Ethics, Law and Health Care teaches applied ethics and law in a way that illustrates the real world applications of these essential aspects of practice. It enables readers to not only recognise but also address legal and ethical issues that will arise in their professional practice.
The book approaches these issues using the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Codes of Ethics, the Codes of Professional Conduct and the four principles of biomedical ethics:
- Autonomy
- Non-maleficence
- Beneficence
- Justice
Filled with case studies, review questions and useful further reading, this book gives readers a solid understanding of ethics and law in health care, and a clear decision-making framework so they can take action confidently.
Fully updated to reflect new laws and codes of ethics, this new edition includes two new chapters on dispensing and prescribing medications and independent practice. It also includes more on rural practice, cultural safety and Indigenous views throughout and more clinical case scenarios.
Please note, this book is written specifically for the Australian market.
Contents
Chapter 1: Ethics and law
Chapter 2: Ethics and ethical and legal decision-making frameworks
Chapter 3: The Australian legal system
Chapter 4: Ethics, law and nursing and midwifery practice
Chapter 5: Ethics, Law and nursing and midwifery scope of practice
Chapter 6: Adult patients - consent and refusal of consent
Chapter 7: Children and young people as patients
Chapter 8: Ethics, law, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients
Chapter 9: Law, ethics, and health information management
Chapter 10: Patient safety and negligence
Chapter 11: Ethics, law, and mental health
Chapter 12: Ethics, law, and the elderly
Chapter 13: End-of-life issues
Chapter 14: Issues relevant to reproduction, pregnancy, and the birth of a child
Chapter 15: Ethics, law, and dispensing and prescribing medications
Appendices
Code of conduct for nurses
Code of conduct for midwives
Where to find the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics and the International Confederation of Midwives Code of Ethics
Glossary
Index
