NUR 1021C Chapter Notes - Chapter Test 1: Professional Boundaries, Due Process, Respondeat Superior
10 Feb 2020
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Introduction: knowledge of laws that regulate and affect nursing practice is needed for two. Legal aspects of nursing reasons: ensure that nurses decisions and actions are consistent with current legal principles, protect the nurse from liability. Regulation of nursing practice: nurse practice acts. Unit 3: legal/ethical principles of nursing practice: nurse practice acts, professional organizations (ana, nursing specialty-practice organizations, federal organizations and federal guidelines, purpose of knowing and practicing nursing standards of care is to protect the public/consumer. Selected legal aspects of nursing practice: informed consent, express consent, implied consent, reasonable amount of information for the client to make an informed decision: Areas of potential liability in nursing: crimes and torts. Legal protection in nursing practice: good samaritan acts. Vii: laws designed to protect health care providers who provide assistance at the scene of an emergency against claims of malpractice unless it can.
