TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Nurses' adherence to mandated reporting of suspected cases of child abuse
JO  - Journal of Pediatric Nursing
A1  - Green, Michele
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0882-5963
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.06.007
ID  - ref1
ER  -