Nursing Malpractice
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Overview
Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession. The book also provides detailed strategies for dealing with these issues. The content is also highly relevant to practitioners in all other health care and legal disciplines that collaborate in the delivery of health care.
Issues discussed include the expanding and evolving roles for professional nurses and the concomitant legal accountability and risk for liability, the increasing incidence of nurses named as defendants in malpractice lawsuits, anticipated changes in our health care delivery system, and breakthroughs in science and technology that will present new legal questions. The book also includes material on other important facets of today's nursing practice, including the growing phenomenon of tele-nursing, the essentials of malpractice insurance, and the legal significance of documentation and patients' medical records. It helps the reader identify the nurse at risk for a malpractice suit and the characteristics of the patient likely to sue. The appendices provide information on state laws concerned with access to medical records, a list of useful websites, a list of state boards of nursing, and a glossary of important terms.
An introduction and reference to the basic legal principles of obtaining, reviewing, interpreting, and understanding the documents in a typical medical record.
Synopsis
Presents the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management and their implications and provides strategies for nurses at all levels of practice.
Booknews
In an era when even the definition of "health care practitioner" must be spelled out (as in the 1986 law establishing the National Practitioner Data Bank), the author of (Auburn House, 1999) helps nursing practitioners navigate the laws, standards, defensive documentation, malpractice insurance, and other issues pertinent to malpractice lawsuits. Appends information on state laws on patient access to medical records, web sites, state boards of nursing, and a glossary of terms from "abandonment" to "writ of habeas corpus." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)