Advanced Practice Nurses and Domestic Violence

Advanced Practice Nurses like other primary care providers, have an obligation to advocate for abused patients. Specialization of domestic violence case management holds great potential to address domestic violence effectively (Epstein, 1999). Advanced practice nurses are in prime positions to impact staff development, research, and daily practice of domestic violence prevention and screening while attending to the primary care needs of 80% of the ambulatory patients and already have health prevention as a strong component of their practice (Willson, 1998). …