Nurses and the Law: A Guide to Principles and Applications

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Winner of two 1997 AJN Book of the Year awards in its previous edition, this comprehensive and readable text addresses questions regarding the law and legal/ethical issues affecting nurses. It explains what the law is, how the law works, and how it applies to nursing practice. It provides the knowledge needed to respond appropriately to a broad range of situations.

Updated ethics chapter covering traditional and contemporary perspectives on bioethics, including the ethics of care and institutional ethics

Presents and analyses key cases in a unique annotated format to show how law has been

applied to particular health care situations.

Each chapter begins with Key Principles and ends with Summary of Principles and

Applications to facilitate comprehension and review

The unique Ethics Connection feature integrates ethical issues throughout the text and addresses major topics of current interest, including violence against nurses, short staffing, impaired nursing staff and more

Expanded content on quality assessment, managed care, assisted suicide, and community

health nursing areas

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