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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Nursing malpractice</title>
    <subTitle>sidestepping legal minefields</subTitle>
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    <dateIssued>c2003</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ann Helm, executive clinical editor.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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