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Law and Ethics for Health Practitioners
- 1st Edition - July 30, 2019
- Author: Sonia Allan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 3 0 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 7 2 9 - 7
Law and Ethics for Health Practitioners will appeal to undergraduate nursing and allied health students seeking to understand and comply with the legal, ethical and regulator… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLaw and Ethics for Health Practitioners will appeal to undergraduate nursing and allied health students seeking to understand and comply with the legal, ethical and regulatory requirements of their profession.
The text addresses law and ethics across eight health science disciplines, presenting discipline-specific scenarios to support students in their clinical decision making.
Section 1: Introduction to Law and Ethics for Health Practitioners
1. Introduction to the Australian legal system
2. Introduction to the Australian health system
3. Introduction to ethics and ethical decision making
Section 2: Professional Regulation and Key Concepts Relevant to Health Care Delivery
4. Professional regulation of health practitioners
5. Management of health information
6. Negligence
7. Intentional Torts
8. Criminal Law and Issues related to Health Care
Section 3: Matters of Life and Death
9. Registration of Births and Deaths and the Coroners Court
10. Abortion, Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life and Pre-Natal Injury
11. Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy
12. Advance care planning and the withholding and withdrawal of treatment
Section 4: Further Practice Considerations
13. The removal and donation of human blood, tissue and organs
14. The regulation of drugs and poisons
15. Mental health legislation
16. Child and elder abuse
Section 5: Law and Ethics in Action
17. Working with legal representatives
18. Case studies: Guided application of legal and ethical prinicples
- No. of pages: 274
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 30, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729543033
- eBook ISBN: 9780729587297
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Sonia Allan
Affiliations and expertise
School of Law, University of Western Sydney