Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (5 June 2025) © 2025

  • Richard Griffith College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University.
  • Iwan Dowie University of South Wales

Dimond's Legal Aspects of Nursing

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Table of contents

Part I General principles affecting all nurses

  1. Introduction: professionalism, the legal system and human rights
  2. Actions in the criminal courts and defences to criminal charge
  3. Liability in a civil court case for negligence
  4. Specific problem areas in civil liability: personal liability of the nurse, vicarious liability of the employer and managerial issues
  5. Statutory functions and management of the NHS
  6. Progress of a civil claim: defences and compensation
  7. Consent to treatment and informing the patient
  8. Data protection: confidentiality and access
  9. Record keeping, statements and evidence in court
  10. The nurse and employment law
  11. The nurse as a registered professional
  12. Health and safety and the nurse

Part II Specialist areas

  1. Children and young persons
  2. The nurse and gynaecology
  3. Acute care
  4. Learning disabilities and safeguarding people
  5. Nurse educator and researcher
  6. Legal aspects of the care of older people
  7. Nursing people with mental health problems or learning disability
  8. Accident and emergency, outpatients, genito-urinary departments and day surgery
  9. Human fertility and genetics
  10. Community and primary care nursing
  11. Scope of professional practice, clinical nurse specialist and consultant nurse

Part III General areas

  1. Legal aspects of property
  2. Legal aspects of public health
  3. Handling complaints
  4. Legal aspects of medicines
  5. End-of-life care and death
  6. Complementary and alternative therapies
  7. The future

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