Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing

The definitive guide to the law that all nurses need to know

Written specifically for student nurses as well as those already in practice, Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing is your essential practical guide to the legal principles you need to be aware of in your everyday nursing practice.

Building on previous editions of the book by Bridgit Dimond, this 12th edition has been fully updated and revised in line with recent legal developments and the new Nursing standards to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of nursing law modules. A comprehensive overview of the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise procedures Reference to the latest NMC approved curriculum, and the introduction of nursing associates into England, and in the near future to Wales Inclusion of The Data Protection Act 2018, and its impact upon nursing practice, especially in relation to confidentiality and data storage An overview of a nurses' duty of care, from both a legal and professional perspective. Discussions on deprivation of liberty and children under 16, best interests and the critically ill child, and assaults on emergency workers Comprehensive discussion of the practice implications of the Supreme Court Decisions in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] and the impact of the Supreme Court decision in MuCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] Law on assisted dying including consideration of the findings of the Gosports War Memorial Hospital Inquiry An overview of potential changes to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Consideration of the interface between Gillick Competence and the Mental Capacity Act 2008 for 16 and 17 year olds

Richard Griffith is a senior lecturer at the College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University.

Iwan Dowie is the Deputy Dean for Health and Social Care in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Education at the University of South Wales.

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