Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. American jurisprudence
- Ch. 2. Legal terminology
- Ch. 3. The nurse and the legal system
- Ch. 4. Ethics in nursing
- Ch. 5. Defining nursing practice
- Ch. 6. Elements of nursing negligence
- Ch. 7. Negligence specific to nursing
- Ch. 8. Vicarious liability for nursing negligence
- Ch. 9. Documentation
- Ch. 10. The nurse-patient relationship
- Ch. 11. Patient rights
- Ch. 12. Informed consent
- Ch. 13. Nursing law and employment issues in nursing
- Ch. 14. Managed care and the law
- Ch. 15. Alternate dispute resolution in nursing
- Ch. 16. The legislative process
- Ch. 17. Advanced practice nursing
- Ch. 18. Home health nursing
- Ch. 19. Long-term care nursing
- Ch. 20. Psychiatric nursing
- Ch. 21. Emergency nursing
- Ch. 22. Forensic nursing
- Ch. 23. Life care planning
- Ch. 24. Violence
- Ch. 25. Telecommunications
- Ch. 26. Correctional nursing.
