Research Catalog

Title

Legal aspects of maternal child nursing practice : concepts and strategies in risk management / Sandra L. Gardner, Mary I. Enzman Hagedorn.

Author

Gardner, Sandra L.

Publication

Menlo Park, Calif. : Addison-Wesley Nursing, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Hagedorn, Mary I. Enzman.

Description

x, 278 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Health facilities > Risk management
• Malpractice
• Maternal-Child Nursing
• Maternity nursing
• Models, Nursing
• Nurses > Prevention
• Nursing errors > Case studies
• Nursing errors > Prevention
• Pediatric nursing
• Risk Management > methods

Genre/Form

• Case Reports.
• Legislation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Accountability for Professional Nursing Practice -- 2. Empowering Women: A Theoretical Perspective -- 3. Empowering Women in the Practice Setting -- 4. Maternal-Child Nursing and the Law -- 5. Risk Management and Continuous Quality Improvement -- 6. A Model for Professional Nursing Practice -- 7. Low-Risk Obstetrical Care -- 8. High-Risk Obstetrical Care -- 9. Low-Risk Neonatal Care: Level I Nursery -- 10. Medium-Risk Neonatal Care: Level II Nursery -- 11. High-Risk Neonatal Care: Level III Nursery -- 12. Outpatient Pediatric Care -- 13. Inpatient Pediatric Care -- 14. Intensive Pediatric Care -- Appendix A. NANDA Nursing Diagnoses -- Appendix B. Professional Nursing Organizations -- Appendix C. Antepartal, Intrapartal, and Postpartal High-Risk Factors.

ISBN

0805327843

LCCN

96018897

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries