Patients' Rights, Law and Ethics for Nurses: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Paul Buka

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This convenient pocket-sized book for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals is a comprehensive guide to understanding the legal and ethical rights of any patient in their care, which is essential to good clinical practice. Accessible, challenging and interesting, the book allows the reader to relate to the issues covered, including confidentiality, informed consent, abuse, the rights of the disabled, and end of life decisions. Pertinent quotes enliven the text throughout, while thinking points encourage reflection. Each chapter provides easy-to-follow guidance to this complex area. By focusing on principles of law and including clear outlines of essential case law, the author lays a solid foundation that will serve the reader requiring an introduction to law, ethics and the rights of the patient throughout their training and beyond.

✦ Table of Contents

Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Author and contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Table of cases......Page 16
Table of statutes......Page 18
1 Aspects of law and human rights......Page 26
2 Ethics and patients’ rights......Page 44
3 The clinical environment and patients’ rights......Page 63
4 Children’s rights: the beginning of life to the age of majority......Page 85
5 Informed consent to treatment......Page 103
6 The older person and abuse......Page 120
7 Diversity and equality: anti-discriminatory practice......Page 137
8 Theft, fraud and deception: patients’ property......Page 147
9 End of life decisions: a matter of choice......Page 160
10 Human rights and patient care......Page 185
C......Page 192
E......Page 194
H......Page 195
L......Page 196
N......Page 197
P......Page 198
S......Page 199
Y......Page 200