Paul Buka

Essential Law and Ethics in Nursing

Patients, Rights and Decision-Making

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of this key text lays a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of law, ethics and the rights of the patient in the context of everyday nursing and healthcare practice. Outlining the key legal and ethical principles relevant to nurses, Essential Law and Ethics in Nursing uses an easy-to-read style that conveys key principles in an accessible way. This new edition provides a clear understanding not only of basic legal provisions in healthcare but also of wider issues relating to human rights. * includes expanded coverage of patient safety and 'do no harm', mental health, inclusion and the use of artificial intelligence * covers topics such as ethical decision¿making, the regulation of nursing, confidentiality, laws concerning human rights, safe practice, vulnerable people, elder abuse and employment regulations and * features a range of pedagogical features to aid learning, such as thinking points, case studies, and boxed relevant case law to help link theory with practice This is essential reading for nurses and an important reference for midwives and allied health professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 4. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032943633
• ISBN-10: 1032943637
• Artikelnr.: 75285840

Autorenporträt

Paul Buka, MSc (Criminal Justice and Criminology), PGCE, LLB (Hons) Law, HNC, RGN, RNT, FETC (City & Guilds, 7307), HNC, Public Admin (Constitutional and Admin law), MIHSCM, FHEA, Member of the Institute of Medical Ethics ENB 998, ENB 923. He is a visiting Lecturer at the University of Essex. He specialises in Healthcare Law and Ethics, with several publications (since 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to ethics in healthcare
2. A legal framework for healthcare
3. First
do no harm
safety implications
4. Beginnings of human life to adulthood
5. Information
governance and artifiical intelligence
6. Consent to treatment
respect for autonomy
7. Vulnerable people
advocacy and safeguarding
8. Equality
diversity and inclusion in healthcare
9. End-of-life care
ethical and legal implications
10. Final reflection

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1.Introducing ethics in health care 2.Human rights, the law 3.From beginning of life to adulthood 4.Confidentiality, Information technology 5.Consent to treatment, patient autonomy 6.First, do no harm 7.Vulnerable adults, elder abuse 8.Equality, diversity and inclusivity 9.End-of-life care, decision-making 10.Final reflection

Rezensionen

"Navigating health law and its ethical ramifications can be murky and mystifying; even experts well versed in legal language find challenges in charting a steady course within the vast sea of the health care system. Too often books address this subject with exhaustive case law, providing material that is too weighty for health care professionals, whose time is confined by direct patient care and whose expertise as clinical thinkers has been uniquely moulded. Alternatively, one finds publications where concepts are dumbed down for the proclaimed readership of nurses.

This text takes the opposite approach. At its outset, Buka's framework promises exposure to the most essential content, including ethical decision making, confidentiality, laws concerning older people, fraud and abuse, and employment regulations. This practical guide does not fall short of its aim, mastering harmonies of literary prose and technical legalese, current and historic law, and, more impressive, didactic and problem-based learning. Such judicious integration leaves the reader - regardless of role as nurse, attorney, student, teacher, or curious patient - informed and empowered...



Writing as both a legal and a nursing expert, Buka succeeds in his intention to 'give readers a grasp of the key principles which blend together law and ethics as they relate to patients' rights' - Reviewed by Catrina Sparacio, the College of New Jersey and Princeton University Medical Center, Princeton, NJ, USA