Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
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Health Assessment Chapter 7, Domestic Violence Questions and Correct Answers
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Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
Important health problems that health care professional must recognize and assess Intimate partner violence (IPV), child abuse, and elder abuse
Formerly known as JCAHO, the joint commission
The joint commission requires that all health care settings have policies and procedures to assess, documen...
Health Assessment Chapter 7, Domestic
Violence Questions and Correct
Answers
Important health problems that health care professional must recognize and assess
✅Intimate partner violence (IPV), child abuse, and elder abuse
Formerly known as JCAHO, ✅the joint commission
The joint commission requires that all health care settings have policies and procedures
to ✅assess, document, and make referrals for all kinds of family violence, including
child abuse
Have policy statements recognizing the need for health care professionals to assess
family violence ✅ANA and AMA
Physical and or sexual violence or threat of such violence.
Psychological/emotional abuse and/or coercive tactics when there has been prior
physical and/or sexual violence between persons who are spouses or nonmarital
partners or former spouses/nonmarital partners ✅CDC's definition for intimate partner
violence
- failure to provide for a childs basic needs(physical educational, medical, and
emotional) ✅neglect
- physical injury due to punching, beating, kicking, biting, burning, shaking, or otherwise
harming a child. Even if the parents or caregiver did not intend to harm the child, such
acts are considered abuse when done purposefully ✅Physical abuse
- includes fondling a child's genitals, incest, penetration, rape, sodomy, indecent
exposure, and commerical exploitation through prostitution or the production of
pornograhic materials ✅Sexual abuse
- any pattern of behavior that harms a child's emotional development or sense of self
worth. Includes frequent belittling, rejection, threats, and withholding of love and support
✅emotional abuse
Almost every state has some form of ✅mandatory reporting of abused older adults and
other vulnerable patients (developmentally disabled and the mentally ill)
, Will need to be informed about mandatory reporting statutes in both states ✅health
care professionals who work in communities that border two states
As mandatory reporters of abuse you need only have ✅suspicion that elder abuse
and/or neglect may have occurred in order to generate a call to the authorities
Intentional actions that harm or create a serious risk of harm (whether or not harm is
intended) to a vulnerable elder by a caregiver or person who stands in a trust
relationship to the elder.
Failure by a caregiver to satisfy the elder's basic needs or to protect the elder from harm
✅the national research council's definition of elder abuse
Women are significantly more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted by ✅a
current or former intimate partner
Violent acts that result or could result in injury, pain, impairment, and/or disease
✅physical abuse
Failure of the family member and/or caregiver to provide basic goods and/or services
such as food, shelter, health care, and medication ✅physical neglect
Behaviors that result in mental anguish ✅psychological abuse
Failing to provide basic social stimulation ✅psychological neglect
Intentional misuse of the elderly's financial/material resources without the informed
consent of the person ✅financial abuse
Failure to use the assets of the elderly person to provide services needed by the person
✅financial neglect
The most obvious health care problem for abuse women ✅injury
Cutaneous injuries can be ✅blunt, squeezing, and/or sharp mechanisms of injury
The most common form of intimate partner violence with being struck by a hand is the
most common mechanism ✅blunt force trauma
Blunt injuries that cause the skin to tear, the wound is best described as a ✅laceration
When a sharp instrument slices through the tissue the wound is best described as a
✅incision
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