Recently added articles from Journal of Nursing Law:
Health Care System Policy Change to Improve Health: Taking the Empirical Path
Oct 01, 2008; ... In a continuing effort to address the impact of law and policy change on health outcomes, this issue of the JNL presents a research study and a policy analysis that explored this impact. Vann and Gitterman present a two-part series on a major policy change in North Carolina that has as its goal ...
Evaluation of Policy Change and Strategies to Improve Health Care Delivery to Low-Income Children in North Carolina: Part I, Community Care of North Carolina and Enhanced Primary Care Case Management
Oct 01, 2008; ... North Carolina operates a hybrid public financing system for providing health insurance coverage for low-income children. In January 2006, children ages 0 to 5 years with family incomes between 100% and 200% federal poverty level were transferred from the State Children's Health Insurance ...
Evaluation of Policy Change and Strategies to Improve Health Care Delivery to Low-Income Children in North Carolina: Part II, Outcomes and Recommendations
Oct 01, 2008; ... In January 2006, children ages 0 to 5 years with family incomes between 100% and 200% federal poverty level were transferred from the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), the state's Medicaid managed care program. Beginning March 2007, 6- ...
Rapid Response Teams: Policy Implications and Recommendations for Future Research
Oct 01, 2008; ... Health care organizations are continually challenged with improving the safety of and the quality of care delivered to patients. Research studies often bring to the forefront interventions that health care organizations may choose to institute in an effort to provide evidence-based, quality ...
Protect Your Right to Write Again: Tips for Assuring that Your Publication Agreement is a Comfortable Fit
Oct 01, 2008; ... While practicing nurses are familiar with noncompete clauses in employment contracts, they may not realize that these clauses appear in contracts for other services as well. If there are two paragraphs worth reading in a book contract, they are (a) the one about giving away all copyrights and ...
Standard-Setting in Nursing and Law: Defining Boundaries of Acceptability
Jul 01, 2008; ... Whether a nurse works in education, practice, or research, norms of behavior exist to clarify expectations and improve interpersonal relationships among peers and with clients. At times, boundaries and rules of conduct are explicit, but often gray areas exist, especially among ethical choices ...
Managing Nursing Student Incivility in the Classroom, Clinical Setting, and On-Line
Jul 01, 2008; ... The concept of incivility in education is not new; however, it has generated much discussion at national conferences, faculty meetings, and in the press. What is disturbing to some nursing educators is the frequency of incivility being witnessed in daily encounters by faculty who teach students ...
Do Not Abandon, Do Not Resuscitate: A Patient Advocacy Position
Jul 01, 2008; ... Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was originally designed to save patients who suffered an unexpected cardiac or respiratory arrest, and do-not-resuscitate orders were designed to ease the dying of the terminally ill. Most hospitalized patients, however, fall somewhere between an unexpected arrest ...
Evolving Taxonomy of Nurse Practice Act Violators
Jul 01, 2008; ... An exploratory qualitative descriptive study was undertaken in response to the observation of recurrent patterns of nurse practice violations. Two conceptual models were developed: Legal and professional regulation of nurses and categories of sanctions. An evolving taxonomy of nurse practice ...
Navigating Legally Rough Waters: Nurse Attorneys Achieve Successful Solutions
Apr 01, 2008; ... The American Association of Nurse Attorneys 26th Annual Meeting and Education Conference took place in Newport, Rhode Island, and correspondingly, the logo for this year's conference was a sailing ship. Nurse attorneys, as dual professionals with expertise in health care and law, are uniquely ...
Electronic Evidence in the Health Care Industry
Apr 01, 2008; ... A general understanding of the management and protection of workplace data generated in the health professions is essential for health care practitioners, and the legal practitioners who represent them. Relevant case summaries provide a foundation for understanding the institution and management ...
Propofol and Informed Consent
Apr 01, 2008; ... Propofol is an intravenous drug used to induce general anesthesia. It has a very rapid onset and short duration of action, and patients awaken alert with minimal depression. For these reasons it is being used with increasing frequency outside of traditional operating rooms and hospitals for ...
Developing and Retaining a Successful Interdisciplinary Law and Ethics Course for Professional Health Care Students
Apr 01, 2008; ... Inspired by a liberal arts interdisciplinary model developed by William Newell (1994), selected faculty in the College of Health Professions at the University of New England undertook the task of developing an interdisciplinary law and ethics course believed to be beneficial for seven different ...
Trapped
Apr 01, 2008; ... A young nursing student's reflections on the life and death of Nancy Cruzan. Keywords: Cruzan; end of life; student perceptions ; right to die In September 1989, a Joint Brief of Amici Curiae was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court (88-1503) by Diane Trace Warlick, RN, JD, on behalf ...
Impact of Medical Apology Statutes and Policies
Apr 01, 2008; ... What is the impact of a medical apology program on mediation and litigation? If doctors simply say they are sorry to patients and/or their families, does the apology have a positive or negative impact on mediation? Health care systems with established medical apology policies and programs have ...
Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Theoretical Model for Research With Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Populations
Apr 01, 2008; ... Health care policies are often legislated and implemented without empirical research to support them. Informed consent policy is a frequently debated topic in health care and research arenas. In some jurisdictions, minors are afforded the right to consent to specific health care treatments ...
Human Rights by Accretion: Gender-Related Persecution and U.S. Refugee Policy
Apr 01, 2008; ... Attempts to change public policies to reflect human rights norms are often frustrated by governmental unresponsiveness in the face of what advocates believe to be moral imperatives. The U.S. failure to unequivocally recognize gender-related persecution as grounds for asylum is an example of such ...
Medical Professionals and the Law: Our Role as Experts, Defendants, and Litigators
Apr 01, 2008; ... The roles of medical professionals in the courtroom as experts, defendants, and attorneys are analyzed. The history of the intersection of law and medicine in this country is outlined. The history of malpractice is described. The benefits of training and experience in both disciplines, medicine ...
The Criminalization of Unintentional Error: Implications for TAANA
Apr 01, 2008; ... Recent criminal charges against nurses create worrisome implications for patient safety. Unintentional human errors occur in clinical practice and are inevitable. The vast majority of errors reflect system problems that need to be addressed. Harm to patients can only be reduced or avoided when ...
Consent, Choice, and Evidence-Based Legal Practice
Dec 01, 2007; ... The health care field has consistently valued its scientific foundation for practice. More recently, the field's focus has been expanded to include evidence-based practice that pragmatically articulates interventions based upon research evidence. Similarly, legal scholars rest their analyses on ...