Law For Nurse Leaders

Law For Nurse Leaders

Author: Paula DiMeo Grant

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0826124526

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Problems in Health Care Law

Problems in Health Care Law

Author: John E. Steiner

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1449604625

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The Tenth Edition of Problems in Health Care Law continues to be the authoritative foundational textbook that covers the key components of our legal system and its application to our healthcare system. Students will come away with a clear understanding of how individual rights are defined and protected in the health care setting; how healthcare services are defined, insured and paid for; how individual providers organize and govern themselves and many other core features of how our healthcare system is organized and administered. The Tenth Edition is an extensive revision that covers HIPAA, health care reform, and offers several chapters not included in previous editions. Under the guidance of new lead editor John E. Steiner, Jr., Esq., Problems in Health Care Law, Tenth Edition, brings together the work of authors who represent some of the best thinking and analyses of the issues by legal practitioners and business advisors in the thick of health care reform, delivery, payment, client counseling and contested legal matters. Key Features: * Each chapter provides a combination of broad concepts, learning objectives, practical examples, and instructor led questions. * Offers more robust pedagogical features including art work, diagrams, checklists, side bars, and more. * Includes a rich diversity of material from leading authorities with private law firm experience, national trade association advocacy and policy work, significant 'hands-on' healthcare institutional work and diverse publishing experiences. Problems in Health Care Law, Tenth Edition is a valuable resource for students and instructors who are learning about, involved in, or guiding the 'next generation' of administrators, policy makers, lawyers, physicians, nurses and others who form the backbone of our health care system.


Problems in Health Care Law

Problems in Health Care Law

Author: Robert Miller

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 0763745553

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This classic text has been extensively updated and restructured to use the "problems" approach which analyzes underlying, conflicting public policies and the legal solutions for those problems. It continues to be the helpful one-volume overview of healthcare law that it and its predecessor, Problems in Hospital Law, have been since 1968. Topics covered include: organizational, physical, and staffing resources; relationships with patients including both medical decision-making issues and the handling of medical information; financing of health care services; and liability issues.


Indirect Care Handbook for Advanced Nursing Roles

Indirect Care Handbook for Advanced Nursing Roles

Author: Patti Rager Zuzelo

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2018-08-27

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1284180514

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Indirect Care Handbook for Advanced Nursing Roles: Beyond the Bedside addresses the indirect care responsibilities that confront nurses in a variety of advanced practice roles


Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics

Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics

Author: Susan J. Westrick

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2013-08-09

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1449697275

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An Updated and Authoritative Resource on Nursing Law and Ethics The Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics, Second Edition focuses on the legal aspect of Nursing as it relates to patient safety and quality, environmental health and safety, error reduction and ethical boundaries of practice. Other timely topics include the appropriate use of social media by nursing staff. The text is written by a nurse attorney who presents complex topics in an understandable manner while providing accurate and well researched content relevant to the practice. Extensive legal research by the author incorporates the most current relevant professional and legal references including case law. The text is uniquely organized into five major sections including: the law and nursing practice; liability in patient care; documentation issues; employment and the workplace; and ethics. New to this Edition: • Professional boundaries and use of social media • Quality and safety initiatives in nursing practice, including Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) concepts and content, Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations • Environmental health and safety, including equipment safety • Staffing issues and implications for patient safety and liability • Workplace issues including factors to consider when accepting assignments, horizontal violence • Additional coverage on medication error reduction and safety initiatives • Updated content on electronic documentation, communication, and recordkeeping • Regulatory processes including state board use of off duty conduct in disciplinary proceedings, and data bank reporting, and remediation as an alternative to discipline • Expansion of content on ethical considerations in areas such as assisted suicide, patients’ rights, and applying the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses • Moral distress and moral courage in ethical decision making • Update on the processes for basic legal research Key Features: Test bank featuring NCLEX type questions and rationale A glossary of legal terminology found within the text A Table of Cases for easier access to case law Expanded online resources and scholarly references included at the end of each chapter


Saving Lives

Saving Lives

Author: Sandy Summers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-17

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 019933708X

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For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths. This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance. As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses -- that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners -- has never been more important. Accordingly, Saving Lives addresses both the sources of, and prescription for, misperceptions surrounding contemporary nursing.


Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices

Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices

Author: Julie Dickinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 996

ISBN-13: 1000449092

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Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices, Fourth Edition, provides foundational knowledge on the specialty nursing practice of legal nurse consulting. Legal nurse consulting is defined, and essential information about the practice is discussed (history, certification, scope and standards of practice, and ethical and liability considerations). The essentials of the law and medical records are explored. Analysis of the various types of legal cases on which legal nurse consultants work is provided, as are other practice areas for legal nurse consultants. The various roles and skills of legal nurse consultants are explored, and the textbook concludes with discussion of the ways in which legal cases are adjudicated. This volume allows nurses to bridge the gap from their clinical experience to the unfamiliar territory of the legal world, with practical advice on topics including tactics for being cross-examined in the courtroom and investigative and analytical techniques for medical records. Individual chapters by subject-matter experts focus on the full range of legal, medical, and business issues that new or experienced legal nurse consultants and nurse experts will encounter in their work. A nuanced look at the realities and complexities of toxic torts, medical malpractice cases, civil rights in correctional healthcare, ERISA and HMO litigation, and other practice areas is offered. Suitable for experienced nurses studying for certification as legal nurse consultants, and for expert witnesses, practitioners seeking to expand their current legal nurse roles, and other healthcare and legal practitioners.


Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing

Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing

Author: Bessie L. Marquis

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 1104

ISBN-13: 1975139224

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Employing an experiential, active learning approach to leadership and management, the 10th Edition of this best-selling text equips students for success in the ever-changing, increasingly challenging professional nursing workforce. Current, comprehensive coverage details the responsibilities of high-performing middle- and top-level nursing managers — from managing conflict and working collaboratively to organizing patient care and staffing. Hundreds of engaging, hands-on learning exercises enhance students’ critical-thinking and problem-solving skills and provide them with essential practice in making leadership and management decisions before they enter high-stakes, real-world clinical settings. Updated content equips students with the latest clinical practices and perspectives in quality and safety, the influence and use of technology, healthy workplaces, workplace violence/incivility, quality measurement/benchmarking, healthcare reform/reimbursement, change management, interprofessional teams and more. New evidence-based case studies prepare students to confidently address the growing opioid crisis. More than 280 learning exercises challenge students to apply concepts to a range of practice situations and healthcare settings. Examining the Evidence features in each chapter familiarize students with new research findings, evidence-based practice and best practices in leadership and management. Break-Out Comments reinforce key ideas at a glance. Content Crosswalks tie chapter content to the latest AACN, AONL, QSEN and ANA standards and competencies to clarify and emphasize clinical relevance. A detailed instructor’s manual on thePoint helps you make the most of the active learning exercises in your classroom.


When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough

When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough

Author: Suzanne Gordon

Publisher: ILR Press

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0801458641

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The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by the award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advocacy isn't easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public. When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough brings together compelling personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad—and how they overcome them with skill, ingenuity, persistence, and individual and collective advocacy at work and in the community. In this collection, we meet RNs working at the bedside, providing home care, managing hospital departments, teaching and doing research, lobbying for quality patient care, and campaigning for health care reform. Their stories are funny, sad, deeply moving, inspiring, and always revealing of the different ways that nurses make their voices heard in the service of their profession. The risks and rewards, joys and sorrows, of nursing have rarely been captured in such vivid first-person accounts. Gordon and the authors of the essays contained in this book have much to say about the strengths and shortcomings of health care today—and the role that nurses play as irreplaceable agents of change.