Ethical & Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing
- 4th Edition - August 1, 2019
- Latest edition
- Authors: Margaret Keatings, Pamela Adams
- Language: English
Prepare for practice with the essential text dedicated to Canadian legal and ethical issues! Focused solely on the ever-changing, and often complex health care landscape in Canada… Read more
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Description
Description
Prepare for practice with the essential text dedicated to Canadian legal and ethical issues! Focused solely on the ever-changing, and often complex health care landscape in Canada, Ethical & Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing 4th, Edition expertly covers the often intertwined ethical and legal issues that health care professionals face today. This fourth edition includes discussion points at the end of every chapter along with tables and illustrations to help you fully comprehend the material. Plus, the clear and straightforward writing style presents information just as you will encounter it in your day-to-day practice, ensuring you’re even more prepared to make an impact from the start!
Key features
Key features
- Greater number of Case scenarios encourage critical thinking, discussion, and debate among you and fellow students or among practitioners and colleagues
- The latest legislation, nursing standards, guidelines, references, trends, principles, theories and models
- Critical Thinking: Discussion Points at the end of every chapter test your comprehension of the material
- Clear and straightforward writing style presents information in the way that you will encounter ethical and legal issues in day-to-day practice
- Key terms are indicated in bold type and are further defined and explained in the Glossary
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. An Introduction to the Ethics and the Law: A Perspective for Nurses
2. Ethical Theories: Their Meaning for Nursing
3. Guiding Ethical Decision Making: Resources for Nurses
4. The Canadian Legal System
5. Regulation of the Nursing Profession
6. Informed Consent: Rights and Obligations
7. The Nurse’s Legal Accountabilities: Professional Competence, Misconduct, Malpractice, and Nursing Documentation
8. Complexity at the End of Life: The Ethical and Legal Challenges
9. Ethical and Legal Issues Related to Advancing Science and Technology
10. Safeguarding Patient Rights
11. Perspectives on the Rights of Nurses
12. Ethical Issues in Leadership, the Organization, and Approaches to the Delivery of Care
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: September 1, 2019
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Margaret Keatings
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