The Legal Environment in Nursing and Healthcare

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This course will use a case-based approach to examine the multitude of legal and ethical issues that confront the contemporary nurse leader and in their professional nursing role. The course will also address issues confronted by nursing administrators ?directors, nurse managers and clinical leaders. The course will begin with an introduction to the legal process and how legal cases are retrieved and cited in the literature. The course will examine such concepts as ?due process? and how it is operationalized in nursing practice. The role of a health care-based attorney as a consultant in the clinical setting will also be addressed. Using a case-based method, various scenarios will be analyzed within a legal and ethical framework