ผู้แต่ง |
Westrick, Susan J. |
ชื่อเรื่อง |
Essentials of nursing law and ethics / Susan J. Westrick |
ISBN |
9781284030204(paperback) |
พิมพ์ลักษณ์ |
Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2014. |
เลขเรียก NLM |
WY33 W538 2014 |
ครั้งที่พิมพ์ |
2nd ed. |
ลักษณะทางกายภาพ |
xix, 388 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
หมายเหตุ |
Contents: The legal environment -- Regulation of nursing practice --Nurses in legal actions -- Standards of care -- Defensesto negligence or malpractice -- Prevention of malpractice -- Nurses as witnesses -- Professional liability insurance -- Accepting or refusing an assignment/patient abandonment -- Delegation to unlicensed assistive personnel --Patients^' rights and responsibilities -- Confidential communication -- Competency and guardianship -- Informed consent -- Refusal of treatment -- Pain control -- Patientteaching and health counseling -- Medicationadministration -- Clients with AIDS and HIV testing --Abusive situations -- Reproductive services -- Restraints-- Emergency psychiatric admissions -- Organ and tissuedonation and transplantation -- Discharge against medicaladvice -- The medical record and documentation standards -- Electronic health information and communications --Interdependent nursing functions: verbal orders and telenursing -- Event reporting and compliance -- Qualityand safety in nursing practice -- Forensic issues --Employer and employee rights -- Contracts -- Corporateliability -- Employment contracts and unionization --Employment status liability -- Staffing issues andfloating -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employees with AIDS/HIV infection and exposure to bloodborne pathogens -- Impaired nurses -- Sexual harassment in the workplace -- Violence in the workplace -- Intentionaltorts -- Environmental health and safety -- Ethicaldecision making -- Professional boundaries and patient relationships -- Moral courage and patient advocacy --Social media and online professionalism -- Reporting illegal, unethical, or unsafe conduct -- Maternal versusfetal rights -- Futility of care -- Advance directives andend-of-life decisions -- Assisted suicide |
หัวเรื่อง |
Nursing ethics |
หัวเรื่อง |
Nursing--Law and legislation--United States |
หัวเรื่อง |
Legislation, Nursing--United States |
หัวเรื่อง |
Ethics, Nursing--United States |