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Nursing malpractice sidestepping legal minefields Ann Helm, executive clinical editor. - Philadelphia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins c2003. - x, 246 p. 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nursing practice and the law -- Medication errors -- Failure to communicate information -- Failure to document information -- Failure to perform a proper assessment -- Failure to protect -- Failure to perform reasonable patient care -- Breach of confidentiality -- Criminal actions -- Advocacy, ethics, and legal duties -- Legal risks of understaffing -- Surviving a lawsuit.

ISBN: 158255207X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2002011858

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nurses--Malpractice--United States.
Mal Practice--legislation & jurisprudence--United States--Legal Cases.
Legislation, Nursing--United States.--Legal Cases.
Nursing--Law and legislation--United States.

LC Class. No.: KF2915.N83 / N877 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 344.730414 / N9745

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2003 C-017 WY 44 AA1 / N974 2003