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Informationen zum Autor Judith Hendrick is a Solicitor and a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University. Her previous publications include 'Child Care Law for Health Care Professionals', 'Legal Aspects of Child Health Care', and 'Law & Ethics: Foundations in Nursing and Health Care'. Klappentext Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing is an important and practical guide on the legal and ethical spects of child health care, that will enable nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everydaynursing practice, and help them understand the legal and ethical implications of their actions. It explores the concept of childhood and children's rights and the extent to which their rights are upheld in a variety of settings and evaluates the relationship between law and ethics and how they interact in resolving problems and dilemmas that commonly arise in practice. With case studies, learning outcomes and scenarios throughout, Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing places the care and treatment of children in a legal and ethical framework, and explores the way in which legal and ethical aspects of children's nursing differs from those of adults. It explores general principles such as autonomy and consent, confidentiality and accountability and negligence. It then goes on to look at specialist areas such as abortion, sterilisation, research, mental health, organ donation, child protection and death. Zusammenfassung An important and practical guide on the legal and ethical aspects of child healthcare that enables nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everyday nursing practice! and explores the way in which legal and ethical aspects of children's nursing differ from those of adults. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 An Introduction to Law and Ethics. Introduction. 1.1 What is law? 1.2 How the law is made - the sources of law. 1.3 Divisions within the law. 1.4 What is ethics? 1.5 Ethical toolkit. 1.6 The relationship between law and ethics. References. 2 Childhood, Children's Rights and Welfare. Introduction. 2.1 Legal definitions of the child and childhood. 2.2 The relationship between law and childhood. 2.3 The nature of childhood. 2.4 Rights. 2.5 Children's rights. 2.6 Classification of children's rights. 2.7 Common themes. 2.8 Children and international law. 2.9 The welfare principle. References. 3 Responsibility, Accountability and Negligence. Introduction. 3.1 Beneficence: 'doing good'. 3.2 Non-maleficence: Avoiding harm and risk. 3.3 Moral responsibility and accountability. 3.4 Blame. 3.5 Ethical objectives of the law of negligence. 3.6 Legal responsibility and accountability. 3.7 The law of negligence. 3.8 Duty of care. 3.9 Breach of duty. 3.10 Causation. 3.11 Reform. 3.12 The relationship between law and ethics. References. 4 Autonomy and Consent. Introduction. 4.1 Autonomy. 4.2 Respecting and enhancing children's autonomy. 4.3 Challenging the pre-eminence of autonomy. 4.4 Paternalism. 4.5 The law of consent. 4.6 Essential requirements for consent to be legally valid. 4.7 Disagreements - the court's role. 4.8 Emergencies. 4.9 The relationship between law and ethics. References. 5 Confidentiality, Medical Records and Data Protection. Introduction. 5.1 Explaining confidentiality. 5.2 Children and confidentiality. 5.3 Ethical justifications for the duty of confidentiality. 5.4 The moral case for breaching confidentiality. 5.5 The law of confidentiality. 5.6 Children's legal right to confidentiality. 5...
