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This thoroughly updated third edition lays a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of law, ethics and the rights of the patient in the context of everyday nursing and health care practice.


Outlining the key legal and ethical principles relevant to nurses, Essential Law and Ethics In Nursing: Patients, Rights and Decision-Making, previously entitled Patients' Rights: Law and Ethics for Nurses, uses an easy-to-read style that conveys key principles in an accessible way. It:








provides a clear understanding not only of basic legal provisions in health care but also of wider issues relating to human rights;







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







includes thinking points, case studies and 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. "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

Essential Law and Ethics in Nursing: Patients, Rights and Decision-Making

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