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Title

Legal and ethical issues in health occupations / [edited by] Tonia Dandry Aiken.

Publication

Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders Co., c2002.

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Additional Authors

Aiken, Tonia D.

Description

xiv, 249 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Exploring the full range of legal and ethical challenges that confront practitioners and students in the health occupations, this book covers everything from professional liability insurnace and informed consent to documentation and alternative dispute resolution. Includes case scenarios and examples of recent court cases.--Adapted from publisher description.

Subject

• Nurses
• Ethics, Clinical
• Allied Health Personnel
• Jurisprudence
• Medical laws and legislation > United States
• Medical personnel > Malpractice > United States
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Allied Health Occupations
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. The law -- Ch. 2. Intentional and quasi-intentional torts -- Ch. 3. Professional liability insurance -- Ch. 4. Informed consent issues -- Ch. 5. Documentation and the allied health professional -- Ch. 6. Legal and ethical issues affecting educators -- Ch. 7. Ethical issues in health occupations -- Ch. 8. Imaging liability and litigation -- Ch. 9. Administrative and medical record liability and litigation -- Ch. 10. Clinical laboratory liability -- Ch. 11. Medical equipment liability and litigation -- Ch. 12. Patient care liability and litigation -- Ch. 13. The basics of alternative dispute resolution.

ISBN

072166525X

LCCN

^^2001049406

OCLC

47755895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library