Biomedical subjects
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25% of all midwives have taken sick leave because of back injury. The onus is on the employer to see that employees are not made to undertake risky manual handling work. The place of confinement should be checked beforehand for suitability and safety. Temporary staff are covered by the risk assessment process, but independent midwives are not.
Midwives involved in the establishment of a midwifery-managed unit were given the opportunity to express their concerns anonymously. The principal areas of concern they identified were: Risks to mother and baby. Transfers from the unit to the district general hospital. Refusals by clients. Indemnity, litigation and protection by management. Prescribing, training and updating.
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The compensation system for medical negligence fails to satisfy victims, health professionals and managers. Bridgit Dimond examines the alternatives.
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This paper considers the liability of the nurse educator in her professional work. It begins by exploring the law for liability in giving negligent instructions and advice and the possibility of being liable for harm caused to a patient as a result of negligent teaching. The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed. Liability for giving references on students is also considered and differences in outcomes between true but unsupportive references as against false but supportive ones are analysed.
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Attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff, particularly nurses, were gathered by means of a questionnaire. The question in issue centred on section 5 of the Mental Health Act, 1983, which empowers certain nurses to restrain patients from leaving the hospital.
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The Manager of the SSD finds himself in the present day at a time of revolutionary change. One of the most immediate concerns is the preparation for competitive tendering: he may be organizing an in-house tender as well as setting up the specifications for the tenders. He may at the same time be concerned for his own future. He also knows that, next year, no fault liability, as a result of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, will be implemented. Already he is anxious at the possibility of court action as a result of negligence in re-using single use disposable items and he knows that no fault liability will lead to far greater problems.
The principle of fault liability, enshrined in the Donaghue v Stevenson case, will be revolutionized when the provisions on Product Liability contained in the Consumer Protection Act 1987 comes into force in March 1988. These provisions were passed in order to implement the Directive of the Council of European Communities 25th July 1985 on liability for defective products and the provisions are to be construed accordingly (No 85/374/EEC). Section 2 provides that, 'Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product, every person to whom subsection (2) applies shall be liable for the damage. This section is the crux of the no fault product liability principle.
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