LibGuides: Nursing: Ethics and law

Print books and Ebooks on Ethics and Law

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Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses by Kim Atkins; Bernhard Ripperger; Rebecca Ripperger
Call Number: 174.2 ATK : 5
ISBN: 9781009236027
Publication Date: 2023
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Law and Ethics for Health Practitioners by Sonia Allan
Call Number: 344.94041 ALL Located at Moorabbin campus Library.
Publication Date: 2019. Publisher : Elsevier.
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Essentials of Law for Health Professionals (4th ed.) by Kim Forrester; Debra Griffiths
Call Number: 344.94041 FOR : 4
Publication Date: 2015. Publisher: Mosby.
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Bioethics by Megan-Jane Johnstone
Call Number: 174.2 JOH :8 Available in print at Moorabbin Campus Library.
Publication Date: 2022
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Law for Nurses and Midwives (9th ed.) by Patricia J. Staunton; Mary Chiarella
Call Number: 344.940414 STA : 9
Publication Date: 2020. Published by Elsevier.
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Integrating Law, Ethics and Regulation by Catherine Berglund
Call Number: 344.94041 BER Print copy available at Bourke St campus and Moorabbin Library.
Publication Date: 2019. Publisher Oxford University Press.
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Ethics, Law and Health Care (2nd ed.) by Fiona McDonald; Shih-Ning Then
Call Number: 174.2 MCD : 2 At Moorabbin campus library.
Publication Date: 2019 Published by Red Globe Press.
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Tensions and traumas in Health Law. by Ian Freckleton & Kerry Petersen (eds).
Call Number: 344.94041 TEN Moorabbin campus library.
Publication Date: 2017 Published by The Federation Press.
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Health Law in Australia (3rd ed.) by Ben White, Fiona McDonald & Lindy Willmott (eds).
Call Number: 344.94041 WHI : 3
Publication Date: 2018 Published by LawBook Co.
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Health Law: frameworks and context by Anne-Maree Farrell; John Devereux; Isabel Karpin; Penelope Weller
Call Number: 344.94041 FAR Moorabbin campus library
Publication Date: 2017 Published by cambridge University Press.
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Websites and online reports.

The ICN code of ethics for nurses.
Published 2021 by the International Council of Nurses.
International code of ethics for midwives