Chapter 1 The Legal Environment
Chapter 2 Regulation of Nursing Practice
Chapter 3 Nurses in Legal Actions
Chapter 4 Standards of care
Chapter 5 Defenses to Negligence or Malpractice
Chapter 6 Prevention of Malpractice
Chapter 7 Nurses as Witnesses
Chapter 8 Professional Liability Insurance
Chapter 9 Refusing an Assignment/ Patient Abandonment
Chapter 10 Delegation to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
Chapter 11 Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities
Chapter 12 Confidential Communication
Chapter 13 Competency and Guardianship
Chapter 14 Informed Consent
Chapter 15 Refusal of Treatment
Chapter 16 Pain Control
Chapter 17 Patient Teaching and Health Counseling
Chapter 18 Medication Administration
Chapter 19 Client with AIDS and HIV Testing
Chapter 20 Abusive Situations
Chapter 21 Reproductive Services
Chapter 22 Restraints
Chapter 23 Emergency Psychiatric Admissions
Chapter 24 Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation
Chapter 25 Discharge Against Medical Advice
Chapter 26 The Medical Record
Chapter 27 Electronic Health Information and Communication
Chapter 28 Interdependent Nursing Functions: Verbal Orders and Telenursing
Chapter 29 Event Reporting
Chapter 30 Forensic Issues
Chapter 31 Employer and Employee Rights
Chapter 32 Contracts
Chapter 33 Corporate Liability
Chapter 34 Employment Contracts and Unionization
Chapter 35 Employment Status Liability
Chapter 36 Staffing Issues and Floating
Chapter 37 Americans with Disabilities Act
Chapter 38 Employee with AIDS/HIV Infection and Exposure to Blood Bourne Pathogens
Chapter 39 Impaired Nurses
Chapter 40 Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Chapter 41 Violence in the Workplace
Chapter 42 Intentional Torts
Chapter 43 Ethical Decision-Making
Chapter 44 Reporting Illegal, Unethical, or Unsafe Conduct
Chapter 45 Maternal versus Fetal Rights
Chapter 46 Futility of Care
Chapter 47 Advance Directives and End of Life Decisions
Chapter 48 Assisted Suicide
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