New edition of this popular textbook, which presents up-to-date legislation and legal issues affecting nurses in Ireland.

• New to this edition:
  • Practice standards and professional guidance issued by An Bord Altranais, the Department of Health and Children and the HSE for the Registered Nurse Prescriber
  • Up-to-date leading Irish and UK cases are used throughout the text, such as Fitzpatrick & Another v FK & Another [2008] IEHC 104, which deals with capacity to refuse medical treatment
    
    
• Written in an accessible narrative style, it covers the four areas of accountability affecting all nurses:
  • Professional liability
  • Civil liability
  • Criminal liability
  • Accountability to the employer
    
    
• Where legal concepts or terminologies are used, they are thoroughly and clearly explained in a ‘non-legal’ manner
  
  
• Each chapter contains a concluding summary, useful websites and further reading for research purposes

WRITTEN FOR
- Nursing students at universities and Institutes of Technology
- Post-registration programmes where law is a module

2. The Fitness to Practice Inquiry

3. The Registered Nurse Prescriber

Part 2: Civil Liability

4. Tort, Battery, Autonomy and Consent

5. Negligence and the Duty of Care

6. The Standard of Care

7. Damages and Causation

8. Informed Consent to Medical Treatment: Capacity to Consent

9. Disclosure – What the Patient Needs to Know

10. Voluntary Consent

Part 3: Criminal Liability

11. Basic Concepts of Criminal Law

12. Assault and Syringe Offences

13. Drugs

Part 4: Accountability to the Employer

14. The Contract of Employment

15. Vicarious Liability and the Nurse

16. Termination of the Employment Contract