Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing

<div class="c-section-headers-number-list_container"> <h4 class="h5">New Version</h4> <h4 class="h5">Guided Tour</h4> <h4 class="h5">Table of Cases Table of Statutes</h4> <h4 class="h5">Abbreviations</h4> <h4 class="h5">Preface to eighth edition</h4> <h4 class="h5">Acknowledgements</h4> <h4 class="h5">Publisher's Acknowledgements</h4> <h4>Part I General Principles affecting all nurses</h4> <ol> <li>Introduction: Professionalism, the legal system and human rights</li> <li>Actions in the criminal courts and defences to criminal charges</li> <li>Liability in a civil court case for negligence</li> <li>Specific problem areas in civil liability: Personal liability of the nurse, vicarious liability of the employer and managerial issues</li> <li>Statutory functions and management of the NHS</li> <li>Progress of a civil claim: defences and compensation</li> <li>Consent to treatment and informing the patient</li> <li>Data protection: confidentiality and access</li> <li>Record keeping, statements and evidence in court</li> <li>The nurse and employment law</li> <li>The nurse as a registered professional</li> <li>Health and safety and the nurse</li> </ol> <h4>Part II Specialist areas</h4> <ol start="13"> <li>Children and young persons</li> <li>The nurse on the gynaecology ward</li> <li>Acute care</li> <li>Learning disabilities and safeguarding people</li> <li>Nurse educator and researcher</li> <li>Legal aspects of the care of older people</li> <li>Nursing people with mental health problems or learning disability</li> <li>Accident and emergency, outpatients, genito-urinary departments day surgery</li> <li>Human fertility and genetics</li> <li>Community and primary care nursing</li> <li>Scope of professional practice, clinical nurse specialists and consultant nurse</li> </ol> <h4>Part III General areas</h4> <ol start="24"> <li>Legal aspects of property</li> <li>Legal aspects of public health</li> <li>Handling complaints</li> <li>Legal aspects of medicines</li> <li>End-of-life care and death</li> <li>Complementary and alternative therapies</li> <li>The future</li> </ol> <h4 class="h5">Glossary</h4> <h4 class="h5">Further Reading</h4> <h4 class="h5">Websites</h4> <h4 class="h5">Index</h4> </div>