Citation

Fishwick N. AACN Adv. Crit. Care 1995; 6(1): 63-69.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/00044067-199502000-00009

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Nursing care of domestic violence victims has focused on emergency settings, primary health-care settings, and mental health-care settings. Nurses in other acute and critical care settings also care for domestic violence victims, though the focus of nursing care may be confined to the medical reason fur the parson's hospital stay, However, as we come to fully appreciate the psychobiologic nature of health, illness. and healing, it becomes clear that abuse and violence in a patient's home life holds consequences for one's current and future well-being. Though hospital stays are often brief, important groundwork can be accomplished to identify and assist patients involved in abusive relationships
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