by Ms Bridgit Dimond (Author)
Legal Aspects of Nursing is your indispensible guide to the law for the nursing and health-care professions. It covers everything you need to know, from outlining how the legal system works and general legal issues relating to medicine, right through to specialist areas of nursing, such as working with children or the elderly.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 800
Edition: 6
Publisher: Pearson Education Legal Aspects of Nursing has been updated with the latest in case and statute law making it the most complete and current companion to your studies.
Published: 07 Jul 2011
ISBN 10: 1408226057
ISBN 13: 9781408226056
Book Overview:
This book is a practitioner's bible to all aspects of the law within healthcare.
- The Nursing Times Website
Written in a clear and understandable style, this book has been and is likely to remain the text of choice for students and health care practitioners regardless of their level of clinical experience. Each chapter is littered with case examples that are both relevant and realistic which, in turn, demonstrates the author's thorough grasp of the everyday issues pertinent to the practice of nursing.
- Journal of Community Nursing
Bridgit Dimond MA (Oxon) LlB MPhil DSA, AHSM, Barrister-at-law is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glamorgan. She is an experienced health service manager and lecturer in health service law and management. She is alsto the author of a numver of books and articles on all aspects of professional accountability and patients' rights.