@article{ref1,
title="Nurses' adherence to mandated reporting of suspected cases of child abuse",
journal="Journal of Pediatric Nursing",
year="2020",
author="Green, Michele",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Children are a vulnerable population and rely on care provided by others to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Child maltreatment is a serious issue with harmful effects potentially influencing the trajectory of the affected child's life with long-standing physiological, mental, emotional, and economic implications. Child maltreatment may occur in direct forms, such as physical, sexual, emotional and/or mental violence or neglect and in the indirect forms of exposure to domestic violence incidents, observing or learning about abuse experienced by another individual, or perceiving social and emotional isolation ( James, 2018). The immediate risk is continued intentional injury and even death plus the probability of multiple long-term effects on child abuse survivors. Children under age four are at greatest risk for death from intentional maltreatment; and at such a young age, are developmentally at a disadvantage for self-advocacy ( Sheldon-Sherman, Wilson, & Smith, 2013)...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0882-5963",
doi="10.1016/j.pedn.2020.06.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.06.007"
}