Patients' Rights, Law and Ethics for Nurses: A practical guide

Summary:
This convenient pocket-sized book for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals is a comprehensive guide to understanding the legal and ethical rights of any patient in their care, which is essential to good clinical practice. Accessible, challenging and interesting, the book allows the reader to relate to the issues covered, including confidentiality, informed consent, abuse, the rights of the disabled, and end of life decisions. Pertinent quotes enliven the text throughout, while thinking points encourage reflection. Each chapter provides easy-to-follow guidance to this complex area. By focusing on principles of law and including clear outlines of essential case law, the author lays a solid foundation that will serve the reader requiring an introduction to law, ethics and the rights of the patient throughout their training and beyond.

• Integrates health care law and ethics in relation to patient rights and in the context of every day nursing and allied health practice
• Written at a level appropriate for the novice requiring an introduction to this large and complex field
• Thinking points encourage relfection and self-directed learning
• Companion website provides regular updates in an area where legislation is constantly changing

Table of Contents:
Aspects of law and human rights
Ethics and patients' rights
The clinical environment and patients' rights
Children's rights: the beginning of life to the age of majority
Informed consent to treatment
The older person and abuse
Diversity and equality: anti-discriminatory practice
Theft, fraud and deception: patients' property
End of life decisions: a matter of choice
Human rights and patient care

About the Author(s):
Paul Buka, RN, HNC, FETC, LLB(Hons), PGCE, MSc, MIHM is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University, London, UK. He has a background in law, having specialized in healthcare law and in criminal justice. He has also taught law and law & ethics at various levels for several years. He has previously published in the area of law and ethics.

Contributors:
Kathleen Chambers RN, RM, RMN, Cert Ed, BSc, MA is a retired Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University, London, UK. Her specialist clinical interests are neonatal nursing and child law. She gained an MA in Child Care Law and Practice from the University of Keele. She has considerable experience of teaching Child Law and Child protection within pre and post-registration nurse education. Sue Watkinson BA, RN, OND (Hons), PGCEA, MSc, PhD is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University, London, UK. Her specialist clinical interest is ophthalmic nursing and she has published extensively within this field. She gained an MSc in Educational Studies and PhD in Education from the University of Surrey. She has co

Readership:
Nursing students, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

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