Advanced Practice Nurses and Domestic Violence
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:48:55
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Length: 2 pages (445 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Length: 2 pages (445 words)
Advanced Practice Nurses like other primary care providers, have an obligation to advocate for abused patients. Specialization of domestic violence case management holds great potential to address domestic violence effectively (Epstein, 1999). Advanced practice nurses are in prime positions to impact staff development, research, and daily practice of domestic violence prevention and screening while attending to the primary care needs of 80% of the ambulatory patients and already have health prevention as a strong component of their …
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…respect of the traditional healing practices of the community culturally specific interventions would be more effective (Draucker, 2002).
Draucker, C. (2002). Domestic Violence: The Challenge For Nursing. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. 7(1). Retrieved December 9, 2005 from http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic17/tpc17_1.htm
Willson, P. (1998). Domestic Violence: Are Nurses Hiding the Facts?. The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice. 2(1). Retrieved December 10, 2005 from http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijanp/vol2n1/violence.xml
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