Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Contributors Reviewers 1 Why introduce paramedics to law, ethics and professionalism? 2 An introduction to ethics for paramedics 3 PRECARE - an ethical decision-making model for paramedics 4 The ethical governance of paramedic practice 5 An introduction to the legal system and paramedic professionalism 6 Consent and refusal of treatment 7 The tort of negligence, standards of care and vicarious liability 8 End-of-life care 9 An introduction to child protection and mandatory reporting 10 The mental health patient in the pre-hospital emergency care setting 11 Employment and industrial law in paramedic practice 12 Record keeping and the patient health care record 13 The use of drugs in pre-hospital care 14 Paramedic practice in New Zealand - legal issues and current debates Glossary Index

About the Author

Ruth Townsend is the Health Law and Ethics course convenor in the School of Medicine and College of Law at the Australian National University. Ruth is a qualified paramedic, nurse and lawyer. Dr Morgan Luck is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Charles Sturt University and a senior research fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)