Nurse's Legal Handbook

Updated to include topics such as sperm banks, egg banks and cloning, this work presents information on legal risks and ethical conflicts in nursing. It emphasizes managed care and the legal risks inherent in different health-care settings, such as hospitals, home care and long-term care.

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This updated edition offers advice from nurse-attorneys who are experts in health care and malpractice law, and broader coverage to include most practice settings. Easy-to-understand text explains how to protect licensure, legal consequences of drug errors, risks of supervising unlicensed assistive personnel, nurses' rights, patients' rights, and the pitfalls of living wills. The guide provides current views on use of restraints, telephone triage liability, abortion, euthanasia, and expanded coverage on the risks of managed care. Contents include nursing practice and the law, malpractice liability, legal aspects of documentation, nursing in a changing health care marketplace, indexes and more