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 highly relevant to practitioners in other health care and legal disciplines that collaborate in the delivery of health care. The book addresses the continuing changes in health care, particularly managed care, and rapidly developing technologies that will present new legal issues and questions. This is all done in an accessible, readable, and easy to use format. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.