Legal and Ethical Issues
Chapter 6 Legal and Ethical Issues Robert W. Cooper http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ A major advantage of being viewed as a profession is the societal grant of autonomy in practice. In professional terms,…
Organizational Climate and Culture
Chapter 3 Organizational Climate and Culture Jennifer Bellot http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ Since the 1960s, health care organizations have systematically responded to economic, social, and financial challenges that have ultimately caused a transformation…
Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 5 Managing Time and Stress Caryl Goodyear-Bruch, Adrienne Olney, Susan R. Lacey and Karen S. Cox http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning…
The end of life
The nurse frequently plays an important role in caring for patients at the end of life whether, for instance, in the area of palliative care and the hospice movement or…
Reproductive choice
Today, patients have an increasing range of reproductive choices and increasingly these ‘choices’ are phrased in terms of reproductive rights, particularly in the light of the Human Rights Act 1998…
Clinical research and the nurse
Nurses increasingly participate in clinical trials (Parabor 1997). The nurse may run his/her own trial or may undertake research as part of a diploma qualification or for a higher degree….
Privacy, confidentiality, and access to health-care records
INTRODUCTION Confidentiality has long been emphasised in nursing practice. The Nightingale oath provided that: “every nurse should be one who is to be depended upon, in other words, capable of…
Patient safety, litigation and complaints in the National Health Service
Chapter 3. Patient safety, litigation and complaints in the National Health Service John Tingle In this chapter the topics of patient safety, litigation and National Health Service (NHS) complaints will…
Introduction: the nurse and the legal environment
The role of the nurse is the subject of constant evolution. Today, nurses perform tasks that would in the past have been undertaken by doctors, an initiative encouraged by the…
Consent to treatment II: Children and the mentally ill
In Chapter 5 the basic principles of the law as it relates to consent to treatment were examined. This chapter focuses on the treatment of two particular groups of patients,…
