Publisher's Synopsis
This is the newest edition to the popular NFNRDG series on forensic nursing focusing on the ethical and legal aspects of mental health nursing from both a practitioner’s and user’s point of view.
Forensic nursing is a rapidly evolving speciality of mental health nursing. This book is needed because of an increasing awareness of the legal and moral obligations in forensic mental nursing practice.This comprehensive text covers a wide range of issues including examination of the rights of specific groups such as ethnic minorities, people with learning disabilities and prison populations.
This text provides readers with an up to date overview of the most important and pertinent legislation in this field.
This informative book is an invaluable text for all forensic nurses in clinical practice, student nurses and students on forensic courses.
