Nursing Law and Ethics

cancer diagnosis little of what is said in the remainder of the consultation is heard let alone taken in. Therefore to ensure th ...

valuing of consent with a commitment to tolerance, that is a willingness to accept that people will make choices that we find un ...

Clinical knowledge-base Given the contemporary commitment to evidence based practice the nurse should be aware of what has been ...

Race Ethnicity and Gender in Bioethics'. In Donchin, Anne & Purdy, Laura M. 61999) Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Adva ...

Chapter 8 Responsibility,Liabilityand ScarceResources A The Legal Perspective Robert Lee Arguments rage about the availability o ...

the test of the man on the top of the Clapham omnibus, because he has not got this special skill. The test is the standard of th ...

per week overtime. However, in exercising its discretion to require that overtime working under the contract, the health authori ...

problem for nurses that a finding of liability would constitute a mark of personal failure. Whatever the perception of a medical ...

the link with cancer, attitudes are changing again. Further, the acknowledgment of the risk and any negligence disregarding it a ...

8.4 Staff shortages This then raises the question of what will happen if, in the course of medical practice, a nurse is required ...

This point may be demonstrated also by cases in which known suicide risks have injured or killed themselves following admission ...

8.5 Lack of resources Once a finding of fact is made that provision is in some way inadequate, a related issue arises of whether ...

ways to increasingly centralised control /e.g. through NICE and the development of clinical guidelines) there may be more room f ...

this case, a mistake by the nurse alone might mean that there would be no liability on the surgeon, but that vicarious liability ...

than their best, allocating their limited resources as favourably as possible', Lord Justice Mustill makes the following respons ...

is the necessity for a health authority to ensure that patients within the hospital are sufficiently well counselled in relation ...

and emergency facility is ten miles away. There is no doctor currently on duty at the rural hospital which has a sign at the gat ...

expected to be as ample as those available in the casualty department of a general hospital.' InPhelpsv.Hillingdon LBC/1998) it ...

bombs) the psychiatrist himself disclosed the report to the medical director of the secure unit. In turn the hospital forwarded ...

from the media) will not be protected. Moreover, the nurse would have to show that internal disclosure would have been ineffecti ...