Product Description: Nursing Law and Ethics takes an innovative and challenging approach to key legal and ethical issues, and considers the practical application of law and ethics in nursing. Part 1 explores the interface between law, ethics and nursing, patient complaints and the changing policy context...read more

Product Description: * A new edition of this essential nursing reference * Completely updated to take account of recent changes in the law * Contains guidelines on nurse-prescribing, surrogacy and debates such controversial issues as assisted suicide * Includes discussion on the review of the Mental Health Act as well as the findings of the Woolf repor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines developments that include the Human Tissue Act 2004, which regulates the use of human material for research and transplantation purposes; the Mental Capacity Act 2005, which regulates treatment concerning patients lacking mental capacity; developments in patient safety and risk management; and the NHS patient complaints system.

Product Description: Nursing Law and Ethics explores a variety of key legal and ethical issues in nursing practice using a thought-provoking and holistic approach.  It addresses both what the law requires and what is right, and explores whether these two are always the same...read more

Product Description: Clinical governance enables healthcare professionals to reduce clinical risks, enhance clinical quality via the application of evidence-based practice and deliver good quality care. Clinical governance: a Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals (second edition) provides a comprehensive overview of what is meant by clinical governance and how it can be implemented in practice...read more

Product Description: Lucid and logical in structure, this new edition, previously entitled Sourcebook on Medical Law draws together a wide range of essential material, including extracts from statutes, cases and academic commentary from medical law; an area which is fast becoming an important part of undergraduate syllabuses...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to provide healthcare professionals with information on current issues in healthcare law and ethics. Key topics include: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the prevention of health crime, as well as civil control); genetics and disability at the beginning of life; vaccination and medical research during life; euthanasia at the end of life and the exercise, control and use of body parts after life...read more

Product Description: The burgeoning area of medical law is fast becoming an important part of the undergraduate syllabus. This new edition of Sourcebook on Medical Law draws together a wide range of essential material, including extracts from statutes, cases and academic commentary, and presents them in a lucid and logical form...read more

Product Description: This valuable book is distinctive in that it deals with both law and ethics. There is both practical and academic value in knowing 'what the law requires' and ' what is right', and in understanding that these two are not always the same...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A review of the position of doctor and patient in the light of government initiatives on the Electronic Patient Record. The apparent conflict between the duty of the doctor to patient confidentality and NHS's desire for centralized, analysable records needs to be understood by all involved.

Product Description: This text is the first to be dedicated to the important new concept of clinical governance. It will provide a comprehensive overview of what is meant by clinical governance and how clinical governance can be implemented into practice...read more

Product Description: Risk Management and Clinical Governance embrace systems and processes that help healthcare professionals to monitor, control and have clear accountability and responsibility for their actions. There is a statutory obligation (subject to legislation) to incorporate these into all aspects of clinical work...read more