In 1998 the U.S. Patent Office introduced searchable databases for patents and trademark registrations. Once available only through time-consuming trips to a Patent and Trademark Depository Library, such information now is as near as your PC - if you know how to look for it. Begin with a look through this handy guide. From basic definitions to step-by-step instructions, it offers all the information you need to find patent and trademark information online. Sample web pages illustrate the types of sites you may encounter. Also discussed are the definitions, laws, and application procedures for copyright.

Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Searching on the Internet

Sharpe, Charles C.

Intellectual Property

McFarland

The Internet has enabled older adults to participate more actively and equally with the younger generation in accessing the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web. The Internet has also reduced isolation, promoted lifelong learning, and enhanced daily living for seniors. 
This book facilitates and expands Internet access and usage by seniors, assists them in finding the information they want and need, and contributes to their knowledge of the aging process and the challenges it presents by providing a list of online resources of particular interest to them. Federal government and general resources for seniors are listed first, followed by resources pertaining to such specific topics as abuse, caregivers, computers and the Internet, death and dying, employment and volunteering, ethnic and racial groups, finances, fraud, genealogy, grandparenting, health care, humor, legal issues, residential option, sexuality, and travel. Also provided is a list of publications of interest to seniors that can be found online.

Online Resources for Senior Citizens

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub

Fraud committed against the elderly has reached epidemic proportions, and the problem will only worsen as a large segment of the American population approaches retirement age. This book explores the disturbing rise in these offenses—crimes aimed at a vulnerable segment of society that is often unable to overcome the consequences—with an eye towards helping seniors protect themselves. This handbook first defines fraud, then discusses why the elderly are targeted, the growing scope of the problem, and why these crimes often go unreported or unsolved. The second section clearly explains 28 of the most common types of fraud—including home improvement scams, health frauds, identity theft and magazine sales—in a manner that allows readers to recognize and avoid the predatory actions of others (whether strangers, friends, or even family members). The third section provides a list of resources and actions to take and for those who believe themselves to be the victim of fraud. The book also contains a list of related acronyms, an index and a bibliography.

Frauds Against the Elderly

Parenting & Relationships

The goal of this comprehensive volume is to encourage volunteerism among retired and older people, for their own good and for the good of society. To this end, it documents the physical and psychosocial benefits, and the personal rewards, that derive from a productive volunteer experience. The book also discusses volunteerism in the context of changing concepts of aging and retirement in America, and presents an extensive listing of up-to-date opportunities for prospective volunteers, bringing the idea of volunteer work into the 21st century. Three appendices provide both hard data on the ways people volunteer in America today and specific guidance on learning how to use the Internet in volunteering including a useful glossary of Internet terms. A list of sources cited, in print and on the Internet, and an index complete the work.

The Senior Volunteer: Where and How Retired Americans Can Give Back

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

This book facilitates and expands Internet access and usage by seniors, assists them in finding the information they want and need, and contributes to their knowledge of the aging process and the challenges it presents by providing a list of online resources of particular interest to them.

Online Resources for Senior Citizens, 2d ed.

Computers & Technology

Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession. The book also provides detailed strategies for dealing with these issues. The content is also highly relevant to practitioners in all other health care and legal disciplines that collaborate in the delivery of health care.
Issues discussed include the expanding and evolving roles for professional nurses and the concomitant legal accountability and risk for liability, the increasing incidence of nurses named as defendants in malpractice lawsuits, anticipated changes in our health care delivery system, and breakthroughs in science and technology that will present new legal questions. The book also includes material on other important facets of today's nursing practice, including the growing phenomenon of tele-nursing, the essentials of malpractice insurance, and the legal significance of documentation and patients' medical records. It helps the reader identify the nurse at risk for a malpractice suit and the characteristics of the patient likely to sue. The appendices provide information on state laws concerned with access to medical records, a list of useful websites, a list of state boards of nursing, and a glossary of important terms.

Nursing Malpractice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Praeger

The review and analysis of medical records is a very important part of any personal injury or malpractice case. This book provides an introduction to the law and basic principles as they apply to medical records. It provides a comprehensive list of guidelines for obtaining, reviewing, interpreting, and understanding the documents in a typical record. It offers a useful glossary, a selection of relevant websites, a review of state laws that deal with access to medical records, and an extensive list of abbreviations that may be encountered in clinical practice. While the author does not offer specific legal advice, he gives the reader all of the tools needed to research and utilize medical records. Laypersons, attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, nursing professionals, medical practice administrators, risk managers, and law students will find this a very useful reference and guidebook.

Medical Records Review and Analysis

Nursing Malpractice: Liability and Risk Management

This is the first book to explore this emergent role of the nursing profession. It examines the unique legal, regulatory and professional issues this neoteric mode of nursing practice presents. Telenursing as a subset of telehealth is defined and a review of its history, present status, and future in the U.S. health care system is discussed. Concomitant legal accountability and risk for malpractice liability are examined. Risk management strategies and survival tactics in the event of a lawsuit are presented―particularly the legal significance of, and essential need for, defensive nursing documentation. A brief overview of malpractice law is provided and the essentials of requisite malpractice insurance for the telenurse practitioner are outlined.
The book also addresses a number of other professional, regulatory, and licensure issues, particularly the contentious issue of multistate licensing and the various models to facilitate it that are being offered, and rejected, by nursing organizations and associations. The anticipated changes in our health care delivery system that will be engendered by breakthroughs in science and technology are described. The implications of such changes for patients as consumers of health care are analyzed―particularly the privacy and confidentiality of electronic medical records.

Telenursing: Nursing Practice in Cyberspace

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