NCJ Number
139695
Editor(s)
C M Sampselle
Date Published
1992
Length
278 pages
Annotation
Seventeen chapters by various authors draw implications of the scope and nature of violence against women for nursing research, nursing education, and nursing practice.
Abstract
Seven chapters focus on the implications of violence against women for the nursing research agenda. Chapters discuss the scope and significance of the problem, an anthropological perspective on wife battering, a legal analysis of domestic violence against women, a psychological model for analysis of outcomes related to trauma, a review of nursing research on battering, and the research base for the treatment of sexually abused women. Two chapters consider the implications of violence against women for nursing education. A chapter on the incorporation of the subject into the undergraduate nursing curriculum discusses course objectives, placement of the course in the curriculum, clinical sites, teaching methods, impact on student learning, and alternative curriculum placements. A chapter on the content of the subject in graduate nursing education in women's health examines general goals of the curriculum content and selected graduate education models that incorporate the study of violence against women. Eight chapters on the implications for nursing practice of violence against women focus on such issues as the implications of woman abuse for nursing practice in an international context, ethnicity and woman abuse in the United States, and the relationship between chemical dependency of women and past reports of physical and sexual abuse. Other chapters feature discussions of long-term outcomes and treatment issues, battering in pregnancy, the abuse of women in the health care system, health care agency support for nursing intervention in violence against women, and nursing action to prevent violence against women. Chapter references and a subject index