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Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing

Published by Pearson (June 5, 2025) © 2025

Richard Griffith | Iwan Dowie
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    ISBN-13: 9781292747521

    Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing ,9th edition

    Published 2025

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    The definitive guide to the law that all nurses need to know

    Written specifically for student nurses as well as those already in practice, Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing is your essential practical guide to the legal principles you need to be aware of in your everyday nursing practice.

    Building on previous editions of the book by Bridgit Dimond, this 12th edition has been fully updated and revised in line with recent legal developments and the new Nursing standards to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of nursing law students.

    Part I General principles affecting all nurses

    1. Introduction: professionalism, the legal system and human rights
    2. Actions in the criminal courts and defences to criminal charge
    3. Liability in a civil court case for negligence
    4. Specific problem areas in civil liability: personal liability of the nurse, vicarious liability of the employer and managerial issues
    5. Statutory functions and management of the NHS
    6. Progress of a civil claim: defences and compensation
    7. Consent to treatment and informing the patient
    8. Data protection: confidentiality and access
    9. Record keeping, statements and evidence in court
    10. The nurse and employment law
    11. The nurse as a registered professional
    12. Health and safety and the nurse

    Part II Specialist areas

    1. Children and young persons
    2. The nurse and gynaecology
    3. Acute care
    4. Learning disabilities and safeguarding people
    5. Nurse educator and researcher
    6. Legal aspects of the care of older people
    7. Nursing people with mental health problems or learning disability
    8. Accident and emergency, outpatients, genito-urinary departments and day surgery
    9. Human fertility and genetics
    10. Community and primary care nursing
    11. Scope of professional practice, clinical nurse specialist and consultant nurse

    Part III General areas

    1. Legal aspects of property
    2. Legal aspects of public health
    3. Handling complaints
    4. Legal aspects of medicines
    5. End-of-life care and death
    6. Complementary and alternative therapies
    7. The future
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