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Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice:	1 2 3 4 5 6
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 1:	Maternal and child health nursing carries some legal concerns above and beyond other areas of nursing because care is often given to patients who are not of legal age for giving consent.
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 2: New regulations on patient confidentiality guarantee patients can see their medical record if they choose	Confidentiality
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 3: Is essential for justifying actions. This concern is long lasting because children who feel they were wronged by healthcare personnel can bring a lawsuit at the time they reach legal age.	Documentation
Duration of documentation:	21 years
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent:	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 1: Informed consent is a person's _____ to allow something to happen, such as surgery or an invasive diagnostic procedure, based on a full disclosure of risks, benefits, alternatives and consequences of refusal.	agreement
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 2: Informed consent creates a legal duty for the physician and/or healthcare provider to disclose material facts in terms the client can reasonably understand to make an _____.	Informed choice
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 3: Physicians or health care provider ____ the consent	obtain
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 4: Nurse serves as ______ that the patient voluntarily gives his consent for the procedure.	Witness
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 5: In children, _____ can be contacted by phone or e-mail if not present with the child at the time the consent is needed.	Parent
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 6: In ______ (those in which two adults with children from previous relationships now live together), it is important to establish who has the right to give consent for health care.	Divorce or wounded families
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 7: Adolescents who support themselves or who are pregnant are frequently termed "_____" or "mature minors" and have the right to sign for their own health care.	Emancipated minors
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 4: Informed consent: 8:	Understanding the scope of practice and standards of care can help nurses practice within appropriate legal parameters.
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 5:	Wrongful Birth, life and conception
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 5: Wrongful Birth, life and conclusion: Is the birth of a disabled child whose pregnancy the parents would have chosen to end if they had been informed about the disability during pregnancy.	Wrongful birth
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 5: Wrongful Birth, life and conclusion: Is a claim that negligent prenatal testing on the part of a healthcare provider resulted in the birth of a disabled child	Wrongful life
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 5: Wrongful Birth, life and conclusion: denotes that a contraceptive measure failed, allowing an unwanted child to be conceived or born.	Wrongful conception
Legal Considerations of Maternal-Child Practice: 6: Reporting of inappropriate ort insufficient care provided:	If a nurse knows the care provided by another practitioner was inappropriate or insufficient, he or she is legally responsible for reporting the incident. Failure to do so can lead to a charge of negligence or breach of duty.