Legal Aspects Of Midwifery E Book

Author : Bridgit Dimond
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0750688173
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Aspects of Midwifery written by Bridgit Dimond and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a comprehensive account of the law as it relates to midwifery, from employment law to litigation and compensation, and health and safety to disability discrimination.

Author : Bridgit Dimond
Publisher : Books for Midwives Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750652773
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legal Aspects of Midwifery written by Bridgit Dimond and published by Books for Midwives Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any course of action a midwife might take or fail to take and any advice she may give to her client will have legal implications. Every midwife at any level will, therefore, find this compendium on the legal aspects of her profession, an essential guide through the legal framework within which she operates. No previous knowledge of law is required. To make the subject matter easy to absorb, relevant legal statutes are highlighted, legal cases illustrating real-life situations are quoted and discussed, and test-questions follow each chapter. Legal terms are defined and explained in a glossary.

Author : Bridgit Dimond
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0702032468
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Aspects of Midwifery E-Book written by Bridgit Dimond and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The aim of this book is to provide information that a midwife can use with confidence, knowing that the law is there to protect her and her clients. All information and case law has been thoroughly revised and updated and takes into account sensitive areas that midwives may face in practice including female genital mutilation, domestic violence, infertility treatment and issues surrounding the treatment of human tissue. Examines numerous new acts including the Human Tissue Act 2004, the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 Includes the New Midwives Rules, standards for LSAs and guidance by NMC and the new Fitness to Practice rules Includes the revised and renamed NMC Code of professional conduct

Author : Patrici Staunton
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 072958805X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law for Nurses and Midwives written by Patrici Staunton and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law for Nurses and Midwives continues to be the definitive health law text for nursing and midwifery students who are required to consider legal, professional and ethical considerations as part of their tertiary studies. The 9th edition includes the latest updates to case law and information on nursing and midwifery governance and professional practice standards, outlining a range of legal issues and responsibilities specific to both nursing and midwifery practice, including consent to treatment, confidentiality, professional negligence and professional ethics. Written by the most eminent experts in nursing and midwifery law in Australia, Patricia Staunton and Mary Chiarella, Law for Nurses and Midwives provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for nursing and midwifery students to understand the relevance of legal issues to the provision of safe and effective healthcare. NEW chapter: Chapter 9 The International Confederation of Midwives Code of ethics for midwives and the International Council of Nurses Code of ethics for nurses gives you the latest information on global standards for ethical practice Increased focus on midwives strengthens the text’s relevance to midwifery practice Updated chapter content reflects changes to Australian state and territory legislation as well as new case reports keeping you fully informed on issues such as: - nursing and midwifery professional practice standards; - detailed consideration of the legal issues pertinent to mental health; - consent to treatment, including the right to withhold consent and end-of-life planning; - the contract of employment, including workplace health and safety and workers compensation. An eBook included in all print purchases

Author : Bridgit Dimond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780702041006
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Aspects of Midwifery Text and Evolve EBooks Package written by Bridgit Dimond and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book, plus access to the complete book content electronically. 'Evolve eBooks' allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other 'Evolve eBooks' titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic 'bookshelf', so that you can search across your entire library of 'Midwifery eBooks'. Any course of action a midwife might take or fail to take and any advice she may give to her client will have legal implications. Midwives at all levels will therefore find this new edition of Legal Aspects of Midwifery an essential guide to the legal framework within which they operate. The aim of this book is to provide information that a midwife can use with confidence, knowing that the law is there to protect her and her clients.

Author : Elinor Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317428951
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Ethics for Midwifery written by Elinor Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal and ethical competence is a cornerstone of professional midwifery practice and an essential part of midwifery training. Law and Ethics for Midwifery is a unique and practical resource for student midwives. Written by an experienced midwifery lecturer, this text draws on a wide variety of real life case studies and focuses particularly on the core areas of accountability, autonomy and advocacy. Opening with two chapters providing overviews respectively of ethical theories and legislation, the book is then arranged thematically. These chapters have a common structure which includes case studies, relevant legislation, reflective activities and a summary, and they run across areas of concern from negligence through safeguarding to record-keeping. Grounded in midwifery practice, the text enables student midwives to consider and prepare for ethical and legal dilemmas they may face as midwives in clinical practice.

Author : Jayne E. Marshall
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0702057452
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myles' Textbook for Midwives E-Book written by Jayne E. Marshall and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most-popular midwifery textbook in the world! The sixteenth edition of this seminal textbook, Myles Textbook for Midwives, has been extensively revised and restructured to ensure that it reflects current midwifery practice, with an increased focus on topics that are fundamental to midwifery practice today. Well illustrated to assist visual learning Boxes highlighting significant information to aid study Introduction, Aims of the chapter and Conclusion for each chapter References, Further Reading and Useful websites to promote further learning Glossary of terms and acronyms provide simple definition of more complex terminologies Additional online resources Over 500 multiple-choice questions enable students to test their knowledge Unlabelled illustrations help reinforce learning Full image bank of illustrations to make study more visual and assist with projects. Full colour illustrations now used throughout the book, in response to student feedback Contains many new chapters, some of which are authored by members of the multi-professional team Up-to-date guidance on professional regulation, midwifery supervision, legal and ethical issues, risk management and clinical governance Recognition that midwives increasingly care for women with complex health needs, in a multicultural society Examination of the dilemmas involved in caring for women with a raised body mass index Chapter on optimising care of the perineum for women with perineal trauma, including those who have experienced female genital mutilation Guidance to support the trend for midwives to undertake the neonatal physical examination of the healthy term infant Additional coverage of basic neonatal resuscitation

Author : Bridgit Dimond
Publisher : Books for Midwives
ISBN 13 : 9781898507437
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Aspects of Midwifery Workbook written by Bridgit Dimond and published by Books for Midwives. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook has been created to give the midwife an understanding of the legal system and those areas of the law that affect the practice of midwifery. It has been designed for midwives to work through themselves and contains practical tasks, activities and questions for midwives to complete to improve their knowledge of the law relating to the rights of the mother and child. Each section is concerned with a specific area of law and sections include: 1. The legal system 2. Professional accountability 3. Client centred care: consent to treatment and information giving 4. Records, confidentiality and access 5. Civil liability: negligence 6. Employment contracts 7. Health and safety law 8. Community midwifery and midwife managed units 9. The law relating to medication 10. Specific areas of law relating to midwifery The work book is to be used in conjunction with the Legal Aspects of Midwifery by Bridgit Diamond and each section of the workbook is linked to a specific chapter in the textbook. Readers who wish will be able to use the workbook as part of a modularised course.

Author : Shirley R. Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405147822
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and the Midwife written by Shirley R. Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this successful text is an essential and accessible guide to legal aspects of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery students. Midwives will find this book provides them with the knowledge and understanding they require to make sense of the legal principles that affect their day-to-day work and allay their anxieties, encouraging them to extend and develop their practice safely and with confidence. This new edition includes new and revised case studies throughout. It also contains new sections on NHS accountability, the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act, reproductive technologies and disciplinary pathways. · Relates legal issues to everyday midwifery practice · Written by an experienced midwife for midwives · Accessible, relevant and up-to-date

Author : Bridgit Dimond
Publisher : Pearson Higher Ed
ISBN 13 : 1292001852
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Aspects of Nursing eBook written by Bridgit Dimond and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridgit Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing is the definitive guide to the essential law that nurses and healthcare professionals need to know. Written in an engaging style, the book shows the application of the law to everyday nursing situations showing the relevance and importance of legal considerations to nursing practice. The book covers the legal system and legal issues relating to medicine in general, before examining more specific areas, such as children and the elderly. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.