The Legal and Professional Status of Nursing

by Mary Chiarella and Mary Chiarella AM RN RM LLB (Hons) PhD (UNSW) FACN FRSM

The Legal and Professional Status of Nursing addresses the questions: "What is the legal status of the registered nurse, what is the nurse's role and what are the nurse's professional, political and clinical responsibilities and duties?" The text is divided into five parts, each of which looks at an aspect of the complexity of the conflicting images of the nurse in the law. They take on a broadly chronological form. The predominance of the early case...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443071918
• ISBN13: 9780443071911
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"