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ASPECTS OF FORENSIC MEDICINE
An introduction for healthcare professionals
K JOYNER (EDITOR)
Trauma accounts for the majority of emergency department visits in South Africa, especially over weekends. The management of trauma involves the medical aspects of wound evaluation, treatment and the legal (forensic) aspect. This merger of medical and legal responsibilities is often over looked as the healthcare professional is primarily concerned with the medical care of the patient. However, for the vast majority of patients, the follow up of the potential legal process is an important one, and adds to the patient’s closure and healing. The healthcare professional is uniquely placed to help the patient both medically and legally and assist with this process.
KEY FEATURES
• Provides appropriate information on forensic documentation to take the uncertainty out of dealing with legal issues
• Explains how to identify possible survivors of intimate partner violence so that survivors can be treated with compassion and understanding
• Discusses the legal requirement to report suspected child abuse so that the healthcare provider understands her/his legal responsibilities
• Explains how to proceed at the scene of death, thus enable the healthcare professional to understand her/his role.
SUITABLE FOR
• Paramedics
• The post-graduate diploma in forensic nursing
• Medical doctors in their fourth year of study
• Medical doctors specialising in forensic medicine
• Healthcare professionals dealing with the survivors of intimate partner
violences.
AUXILIARY NURSE’S GUIDE, THE
JC STEVENSON
This handbook accommodates the South African Nursing Council’s instructions and guidelines concerning the auxiliary nurse’s training and scope of practice. The 11 chapters are split into several units, each focusing on a specific procedure or topic. Each unit starts with a statement of its educational aims, making it easier for the auxiliary nurse to carry out her/his tasks and for the educator to evaluate progress. The author cites reference sources at the end of each chapter to assist both the learner and the mentor. Explanatory illustrations accompany the straightforward and clearly written text.
978 0 70218 658 5 2010
184 PAGES
ZAR R381.00
CONTENTS
• History and ethics of nursing
• Nutrition
• Anatomy and physiology
• Basic nursing: Hygiene
• Comfort of the patient
• Medication and related procedures
• General assistance to the professional nurse
• Duties of the auxiliary nurse
• Human needs
• Preventive medicine and measures • Contagious and notifiable diseases
978 0 70212 883 7 3e 1993
420 PAGES
ZAR R458.00
JUTA HEALTH CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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