Description
Book SynopsisRichard Griffith is a senior lecturer at the College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University.
Iwan Dowie is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Education at the University of South Wales.
Table of ContentsNew Version Guided Tour Table of Cases Table of Statutes Abbreviations Preface to eighth edition Acknowledgements Publisher's Acknowledgements Part I General Principles affecting all nurses
- Introduction: Professionalism, the legal system and human rights
- Actions in the criminal courts and defences to criminal charges
- 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 on the gynaecology ward
- 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 day surgery
- Human fertility and genetics
- Community and primary care nursing
- Scope of professional practice, clinical nurse specialists 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
Glossary Further Reading Websites Index
