Fraud committed against the elderly has reached epidemic proportions, and the problem will only worsen as a large segment of the American population approaches retirement age. This book explores the disturbing rise in these offenses - crimes aimed at a vulnerable segment of society that is often unable to overcome the consequences - with an eye towards helping seniors protect themselves. This handbook first defines fraud, then discusses why the elderly are targeted, the growing scope of the problem, and why these crimes often go unreported or unsolved. The second section clearly explains 28...
Fraud committed against the elderly has reached epidemic proportions, and the problem will only worsen as a large segment of the American population a...
Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession. The book also provides detailed strategies for dealing with these issues. The content is also highly relevant to practitioners in all other health care and legal disciplines that collaborate in the delivery of health care.
Issues discussed include the expanding and evolving roles for professional nurses and the concomitant legal accountability and...
Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and princ...
The review and analysis of medical records is a very important part of any personal injury or malpractice case. This book provides an introduction to the law and basic principles as they apply to medical records. It provides a comprehensive list of guidelines for obtaining, reviewing, interpreting, and understanding the documents in a typical record. It offers a useful glossary, a selection of relevant websites, a review of state laws that deal with access to medical records, and an extensive list of abbreviations that may be encountered in clinical practice. While the author does not...
The review and analysis of medical records is a very important part of any personal injury or malpractice case. This book provides an introduction ...
Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession. The book also provides detailed strategies for dealing with these issues. The content is also highly relevant to practitioners in all other health care and legal disciplines that collaborate in the delivery of health care.
Issues discussed include the expanding and evolving roles for professional nurses and the concomitant legal accountability and...
Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and princ...
This is the first book to explore this emergent role of the nursing profession. It examines the unique legal, regulatory and professional issues this neoteric mode of nursing practice presents. Telenursing as a subset of telehealth is defined and a review of its history, present status, and future in the U.S. health care system is discussed. Concomitant legal accountability and risk for malpractice liability are examined. Risk management strategies and survival tactics in the event of a lawsuit are presented--particularly the legal significance of, and essential need for, defensive nursing...
This is the first book to explore this emergent role of the nursing profession. It examines the unique legal, regulatory and professional issues th...
