Chapter 30
Ethical and Legal Issues in Perioperative Nursing
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Concept of perioperative nursing
- Ethical and legal issues intervening perioperative nursing
- Liability in perioperative nursing
- Legal issues and rights of patients in perioperative nursing
- Consent issues in perioperative nursing
- Advance directives in perioperative nursing
- Perioperative-specific nursing care issues
- Bioethical issues in perioperative nursing
- Role of perioperative nurses
30.1 INTRODUCTION
Perioperative nurses care of surgical patients throughout the continuous perioperative nursing practice, the professional nurses render direct care through nursing process activities, ensure implementing specialized activities such as educating staff and peer, ...
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