The risks and benefits of human donor breast milk.

CME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: 1.Review the advantages and disadvantages of donor-banked milk over informal milk sharing.2.

The use and misuse of electronic patient data.

This article highlights patient privacy rights, briefly discusses a few of the many federal, state, and local regulatory laws protecting patient confidentiality and privacy electronically, and briefly reviews several case decisions in this area. Implications for infusion nurses also are presented.

Protecting physicians' rights in disciplinary actions by a medical board: a brief primer.

This article highlights the basic due process rights of the physician licensee in disciplinary matters before medical boards. It includes a discussion of the license as a property right, the concept of due process, and other concepts related to the rights of the physician licensee in disciplinary proceedings. Implications for the physician licensee are also presented.

Emerging legal issues for nurse managers.

This report identifies many of the emerging legal issues affecting nurse managers, including the current and future nurse shortage and telenursing. An in-depth analysis of a major emerging, trend, multistate licensure, includes a brief history of the development of the multistate licensure compact developed by the national council of state boards of nursing and reactions to the compact. Implications for the nurse manager are identified and discussed.