Main description:

New edition of this popular textbook, which presents up-to-date legislation and legal issues affecting nurses in Ireland.

New to this edition:

Practice standards and professional guidance issued by An Bord Altranais, the Department of Health and Children and the HSE for the Registered Nurse Prescriber
Up-to-date leading Irish and UK cases are used throughout the text, such as Fitzpatrick & Another v FK & Another [2008] IEHC 104, which deals with capacity to refuse medical treatment

Written in an accessible narrative style, it covers the four areas of accountability affecting all nurses:

Professional liability
Civil liability
Criminal liability
Accountability to the employer

Where legal concepts or terminologies are used, they are thoroughly and clearly explained in a 'non-legal' manner

Each chapter contains a concluding summary, useful websites and further reading for research purposes

WRITTEN FOR

- Nursing students at universities and Institutes of Technology

- Post-registration programmes where law is a module

Contents:

Part 1: Professional Liability

1. Statutory Developments

2. The Fitness to Practice Inquiry

3. The Registered Nurse Prescriber

Part 2: Civil Liability

4. Tort, Battery, Autonomy and Consent

5. Negligence and the Duty of Care

6. The Standard of Care

7. Damages and Causation

8. Informed Consent to Medical Treatment: Capacity to Consent

9. Disclosure - What the Patient Needs to Know

10. Voluntary Consent

Part 3: Criminal Liability

11. Basic Concepts of Criminal Law

12. Assault and Syringe Offences

13. Drugs

Part 4: Accountability to the Employer

14. The Contract of Employment

15. Vicarious Liability and the Nurse

16. Termination of the Employment Contract