Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics
- ISBN-10
- 0763753025
- ISBN-13
- 9780763753023
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Authors
- Susan Westrick, Katherine Dempski
Description
Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics is an authoritative resource designed to meet the needs of both nursing students and practicing nurses. This reference is a compilation of two-page chapters covering topics from legal issues related to basic practice such as documentation, patient teaching, and confidentiality to more complex areas of end of life issues and advanced directives.In addition, Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics includes those issues pertinent to the everyday practice of nurses including refusing patient assignment, sexual harassment in the workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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