The perfect textbook for healthcare students who want a fresh, innovative way to understand how law and ethics relate to their studies, placements, and professional practice. By using a unique format made up of frequently asked questions and corresponding answers, Key Questions in Healthcare covers the what, why, where and how in legal and ethical issues related to healthcare. Its easy-to-use layout helps you quickly find informative yet straightforward answers to over 150 questions, helping you to feel confident in your legal and ethical knowledge, without leaving you overwhelmed or confused. All answers are written in-line with Nursing and Healthcare regulations and its conversational writing style will make you feel like you are talking with a lecturer, instructor, or knowledgeable colleague, rather than reading a textbook. The book is appropriate for all levels, from healthcare students in the initial stages of their education, to the advanced practitioner who wishes to refresh their knowledge, or maybe learn something new.
This is the ideal textbook for students and practitioners of all levels. Using over 130 frequently asked questions and corresponding answers, the style makes you feel as though you′re talking to an expert. The layout is easy to use and accessible, with all answers written in line with Nursing and Healthcare regulations. Questions include: If I have concerns about a colleague what should I do? Can a patient demand a specific treatment? When is it possible to treat a patient without their consent? What happens at a Coroner’s Inquest? Find answers to these and many more questions to unravel the complexities of accountability and professionalism in nursing and healthcare.
Consent is a concept that can be complex and difficult to understand, but it does not have to be. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to the consent process that treats consent as an essential part of your everyday practice. From assent to self-determination, via legally valid consent, it’s full of practical detail about: what consent is who can give consent the ways in which consent can be given when consent can be given how you can work with your patient through the consent process. Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind – and you can carry it with you at all times!
Confidentiality is a tricky concept in health care that can be difficult to understand, but it does not have to be. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide that clarifies the obligations that a health care practitioner has to their patient and the patient’s personal information. It places confidentiality in the clinical setting and relates the principles of confidentiality to your practice. From Caldicott Guardians to public interest, via Lasting Power of Attorney, it’s full of practical detail about: what confidentiality is and why it is important what constitutes confidential information when information can be shared who information can be shared with when information must be shared Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind – and you can carry it with you at all times!
By using a unique question and answer format, Accountability and Professionalism in Nursing and Healthcare covers the what, why, where and how in legal and ethical issues related to nursing and healthcare.
The perfect textbook for healthcare students who want a fresh, innovative way to understand how law and ethics relate to their studies, placements, and professional practice. By using a unique format made up of frequently asked questions and corresponding answers, Key Questions in Healthcare covers the what, why, where and how in legal and ethical issues related to healthcare. Its easy-to-use layout helps you quickly find informative yet straightforward answers to over 150 questions, helping you to feel confident in your legal and ethical knowledge, without leaving you overwhelmed or confused. All answers are written in-line with Nursing and Healthcare regulations and its conversational writing style will make you feel like you are talking with a lecturer, instructor, or knowledgeable colleague, rather than reading a textbook. The book is appropriate for all levels, from healthcare students in the initial stages of their education, to the advanced practitioner who wishes to refresh their knowledge, or maybe learn something new.
Confidentiality is a tricky concept in health care that can be difficult to understand, but it does not have to be. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide that clarifies the obligations that a health care practitioner has to their patient and the patient’s personal information. It places confidentiality in the clinical setting and relates the principles of confidentiality to your practice. From Caldicott Guardians to public interest, via Lasting Power of Attorney, it’s full of practical detail about: what confidentiality is and why it is important what constitutes confidential information when information can be shared who information can be shared with when information must be shared Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind – and you can carry it with you at all times!
Consent is a concept that can be complex and difficult to understand, but it does not have to be. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to the consent process that treats consent as an essential part of your everyday practice. From assent to self-determination, via legally valid consent, it’s full of practical detail about: what consent is who can give consent the ways in which consent can be given when consent can be given how you can work with your patient through the consent process. Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind – and you can carry it with you at all times!
Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice. Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient's health record, and this pocket guide is full of practical detail about: what a health record is and what its purpose is how health records are managed who has access to health records the importance of maintaining a patient's health record best practice in keeping records Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind - and you can carry it with you at all times!
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