
Nurses too often encounter battered women, abused children, and other victims of family violence in hospital and emergency room settings. Nurses therefore have a unique and important role to play in the prevention, identification, and mitigation of violence. This newly revised...

Written by the world's foremost experts in the field, this book provides the only comprehensive, nursing-focused coverage of family violence/domestic abuse available on the market. The book covers both the theoretical and practical issues involved in the care of domestic violence...