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Legal and ethical issues in nursing continue to increase in scope and importance as the profession struggles with complex technology, impacts of nursing shortages in all practice settings, and increasing demands of consumers. Thus, the need for relevant and current information remains critical. The Fourth Edition of Guido's Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing meets these needs.
Completely revised and expanded in content, it includes new topic areas such as HIPAA, delegation and supervision of unlicensed personnel, environmental safety issues, disaster situations, impacts of the nursing shortage, medication errors, communication, mandatory overtime, nurse-patient ratios, and the medicinal use of marijuana. In addition it will continue to detail content areas found in previous editions including federal law and historical material.
Nursing students and nursing professionals.
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Great in-depth information.......2007-08-08
This book covers every legal aspect of nursing. It explains every term that is relevant to the subject in detail and even gives a nice introduction to the law and judicial process. There is also a nice section on ethics. It is very in depth, maybe too much for what I was looking for. It is definitely aimed towards those in the legal nursing field, such as a legal nurse consultant. Great reference book!
Excellent book for my current course.......2005-10-26
Well written book, easy to access information. Excellent choice for my current course
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Law and Ethics for Medical Careers, 4th edition, provides an overview of the laws and ethics you should know to help you give competent, compassionate care to patients that is within acceptable legal and ethical boundaries. The text can also serve as a guide to help you resolve the many legal and ethical questions you may reasonably expect to face as a student and, later, as a health care practitioner. The text features pertinent legal cases, anecdotes, and sidebars related to health-related careers. Content has been updated and special attention has been paid to legislation affecting health care.
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Designed to provide learners with a foundation in medical law and ethics, this book uses case studies from actual legal procedures to illustrate key points of law, interpretation of statutes, as well as ethical dilemmas. This newly revised edition helps the medical office professional interact with the legal profession, recognize when they need legal advice, and protect their employers from medical malpractice complaints. In addition to understanding their rights as an employee, the rights of the patient are explored, as well.
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Is Your Living Will Compromising Your Safety?
If you have a living will, you probably had it prepared so your wishes could be carried out if you became incapable of making your own medical decisions. But, did you realize there is a risk of your living will being misinterpreted?
Patients who are not terminally ill die in hospitals every year because of medical staff misinterpretations of living wills. These are patients who would have otherwise lived if treated. But, too often, patients with living wills are treated as DNR—a code status understood by physicians and staff to mean “do not resuscitate.” However, in many cases their status should have been “Full Code,” which tells those in authority to use aggressive efforts to save patients’ lives. Unfortunately, living wills do not contain patient code status designations and therein lies the problem.
As an emergency room physician, Ferdinando L. Mirarchi, D.O. understands how these misinterpretations happen. In Understanding Your Living Will, Dr. Mirarchi explains how to include lifesaving patient code status information in your living will and in the living wills of your loved ones. Among the questions he answers:
· How can you be sure your living will makes your wishes clear?
· What are the hidden dangers in living wills?
· How can you avoid the misinterpretation of a DNR code status?
· When does a living will become active?
· Why is it important to have a health care power of attorney?
· What is a health care proxy?
A Book to Help You Ensure Your Living Will Follows Your Wishes
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The second edition of Healthcare Law & Ethics will present practical, fundamental information that will help students learn to identify potential legal issues they may encounter throughout their careers.
What's new in this edition:
An expanded discussion of how students can use the law to promote policy goals, and the relationship between law & ethics
Deeper consideration of ethical issues as well as issues of quality, patient safety, and prevention of medical errors
Information on the use of government regulation to protect public health, including protecting against bio-terrorism
The federal HIPAA privacy rule and other important aspects of patient confidentiality
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Legal and Ethical Concerns in Treating Kidney Failure: Case Study Workbook (Legal and Ethical Concerns in Medicine)
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Once dialysis treatment, in 1960, permitted life prolongation for some but not all patients in kidney failure, an `ethical genie' was released. The introduction of peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation compounded the physician's dilemma by underscoring those left untreated. Who should be selected for uremia therapy? Should exclusion from treatment be properly delegated to administrators or physicians, or better left to a committee? Are some candidates more worthy than others? As examples: Do Presidents and Kings warrant priority in cadaver organ allocation over ordinary citizens? Are rich people more deserving than the poor? Is it ethical to choose a younger over an older patient? Can children and/or mentally incompetent persons serve as living organ donors? Is it proper to market organs under controlled circumstances?
Eli A. Friedman, an experienced nephrology training program director, and Medical Advisor to the American Association of Kidney Patients, has collected 24 difficult cases that focus on these and other vexing though common stressful issues faced by those who manage kidney patients. Using a novel approach to each case, the opinions of lawyers, nephrologists, patients, and a transplant surgeon are proffered sequentially. Friedman asks and then answers searching questions arising from the debate. The quality of information presented is positively flavored by the fact that three of the respondents (one an attorney) are kidney transplant recipients.
Members of the kidney team, those immersed in seeking truth in medical ethics, and all participating in exploring the legality or ethical basis of organ replacement will find this book pertinent to their effort.
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This overview of medical law and ethics is written in straightforward language for non-lawyer healthcare professionals who must be able to cope with multiple legal and ethical issues they encounter while working in a variety of settings--e.g., the medical office, hospitals, clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. It is designed to help them better understand their ethical obligation to themselves, their patients, and their employer.
New to this edition are: Changes in Contract Law; Hiring Practices such as personnel policy manual, interview process, legal implications, sexual harassment, discrimination issues relating to selecting employees, incompetent and dishonest colleagues; Expanded coverage of Privacy Law and confidentiality - to cover more on confidentiality, HIPAA and other laws affecting the disclosure of personal information; Expanded coverage of Consent - to include more about informed and uninformed consent, problems when implementing consent, the right to refuse treatment. Also discussed are: Physician's Orders: what to do when the health care worker disagrees with the orders, what orders can be carried out with or without a written physician's orders; Malpractice Avoidance; and Truth-telling as in cases of patients who do not want to be told their diagnosis or families who do not wish to have the patient told. New to the End of Chapter activities include: Expanded âWeb Huntâ exercises; Chapter Review fill-in-the-blank exercises to each chapter; and More Case Studies.
For those in the allied health field in a variety of settings such as the medical office, hospitals, clinics, and skilled nursing facilities.
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Conforming to HIPAA Regulations.......2007-02-08
The confusion over regulations following the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been met with few resources providing the basic overview required to determine office policy and practice. Fremgen's second edition accomplishes this, turning government jargon into a concise outline.
Medical Law and Ethics.......2007-02-07
Book was brand new and arrived in a reasonable amount of time!
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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
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The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including computer documentation, cloning, stem cell research, pain management, euthanasia, prescribing, privacy, and confidentiality as well as the nursing shortage. New topics include workplace violence and harassment, needlesticks, telephone triage, and quality assurance. A new Legal Tip logo highlights proactive, protective actions nurses can take, and an entire chapter explains step-by-step what to expect in a malpractice lawsuit.
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Made-Up, Fictitious Nonsense. Save Your Money.......2007-08-14
This author of the section on Physician Assistants either made up her description of the profession out of whole cloth, or knew better but liked what she concocted more than she liked the truth.
To begin with, PA programs don't last from "a few months" to 2 years. There is no place the author would have found that. They all last 2 years...or longer.
Secondly, the author's statement that some programs may have academic prerequistes is just as demonstrably untrue. All PA programs have considerable prerequisites, and these have become more demanding over the years. Many programs require the applicant to hold a Bachelor's degree.
Unfortunately, the gross inaccuracies of this section cast a very dark shadow over the rest of this edited collection. When a book has "legal" in its title and has so serious a misrepresentation, a reader would be wise to look elsewhere for facts upon which to base important decisions.
If you like your non-fiction books to come from the wild imagination of the author...go ahead, get this book. Try not to lose too much sleep wondering which statements in the book are true and which are like the statements mentioned above.
PAs defined by a Nurse?!.......2007-08-08
Until the definitions of Physician Assistants are accurate and corrected in printed and spoken word, this text is untrue and thus, misleading and misrepresentive.
The trend is that PAs are now on Masters level-- either at the onset of education or at the completion of the PA program. In this first decade of the 21st century, there will be a 100% increase in those PA numbers at the end of previous years. As much as some in both factions are loath to admit-- we are on the same team and should and indeed, do work together.
Inaccurate Description of Other Professions..........2007-08-07
If the description of the PA profession is any indication of the caliber of this book, I wouldn't trust anything in it. The author is clearly misinformed as to what PAs are (they are physician assistants, no 's), what their capabilities are, what their training entails and what they are legally allowed to do. The author's definition of a PA is disingenuous and if this serves as the legal basis upon which nurses are supposed to be making decisions, it is completely inappropriate and ultimately hazardous to patient care.
Physician Assistant misinformation.......2007-08-07
I was very disappointed to read Stacey Follin's (ed) description of my profession, Physician Assistants. I was perplexed how she could be so wrong. Either she is ignorant of our profession or she has a political agenda, either of which would cause one to doubt anything that they read in the book. To continue to spread this type of mis-information only contributes to animosity that some nurses feel toward PAs. Nurses and Physician Assistants are on the same team, with the same goal of providing quality, compassionate health care to our patients at reasonable cost.
To correct her statements, PAs typically have BS degrees plus at least two years of patient care experience before entering PA school. PA-medical school has a standard of 24 continuous months of very intensive training. Most PA schools lead to the Masters degree. There has never been, in the history of our profession, a PA program that "last a few months." We are not trained to "assist physicians." We are trained to practice medicine. National Certification was never "available" for PAs but is mandatory, requiring 100 hours of CME every two years and a very difficult national board exam every six.
I was an instructor in both a PA program and a Nurse Practitioner program. In my experience the curriculum of the PA program, in general, was much more challenging than that of the NP, so the efforts to dismiss the PA training as inferior is in poor taste.
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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals is an important and practical guide to aide in the resolution of ethical dilemmas with legal implications. This comprehensive reference provides both the student and practicing health care professional with an overview of the ethical and legal issues that face healthcare providers today. The reader will better understand ethical dilemmas and learn how to evaluate and distinguish between the rightness and wrongness of alternative courses of action when faced with complicated problems to solve.
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