Online Companion: Nursing Fundamentals: Caring & Clinical Decision Making

Web Sites
Chapter 8: Legal Accountabilities and Responsibilities

American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC)
http://www.aalnc.org/
Presents information about legal nurse consulting practice, education, and certification

American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)
http://www.healthlawyers.org/
Home of the Health Lawyer Weekly, it provides the latest health law news and analysis.

American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
http://www.ashrm.org/
From the American Hospital Association, offers information on healthcare risk management for health care organizations, educational tools, and networking opportunities for healthcare risk management professionals.

American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME)
http://www.aslme.org/
Provides information about membership to the ASLME, the home of the American Journal of Law and Medicine. Makes available abstracts of articles and free media presentations on health law.

Center for Law and the Public’s Health
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/
Presents the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities; founded with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Practice Program Office, a national resource on public health law, ethics, and policy.

Findlaw
http://www.Findlaw.com
Find summaries of health law, health care industry agreements, demonstrative evidence sites, expert witness sites, governmental agencies, governmental documents, and much more at the “Health Law” page.

Guide to Health Law
http://www.hg.org
From the HierosGamos website, offers information on health law, healthcare, insurance, HMO, patient, doctors, government business lawyers, insurance, judge courts countries states legal law firms legislation.

Health Law Resource
http://www.netreach.net/
Offers extensive information on telemedicine, informatics, bioethics, piracy issues, Medicare/Medicaid, fraud and abuse, mergers, and acquisitions. Focuses on health care law issues and economics.

The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA)
http://taana.org
Provides information about the TAANA, a resource network and support group for nurse attorneys that educates the public on nursing, health care, and the law.