This guideline facilitates a nurse’s routine universal screening for woman abuse by intimate partners. The intended outcome is increased opportunity for disclosure, which will promote health, well-being, and safety for women. This guideline offers nurses a repertoire of strategies that can be adapted to various practice environments.
This guideline facilitates a nurse’s routine universal screening for woman abuse by intimate partners. The intended outcome is increased opportunity for disclosure, which will promote health, well-being, and safety for women. This guideline offers nurses a repertoire of strategies that can be adapted to various practice environments.
As an introduction, we’ve provided summaries of the practice recommendations from the BPG document — but we strongly encourage downloading RNAO’s official PDF.
Nurses implement routine universal screening for woman abuse in all health care settings.
Routine universal screening be implemented for all females 12 years of age and older.
Nurses develop skills to foster an environment that facilitates disclosure. This necessitates that nurses know:
Nurses develop screening strategies and initial responses that respond to the needs of all women taking into account differences based on race, ethnicity, class, religious/spiritual beliefs, age, ability or sexual orientation.
Nurses use reflective practice to examine how their own beliefs, values, and experiences influence the practice of screening.
Nurses know what to document when screening for and responding to abuse.
Nurses know their legal obligations when a disclosure of abuse is made.
This website was developed by a team of researchers at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University). The purpose of the site is to provide supplementary resources for implementing RNAO’s Best Practice Guidelines. Some information about the best practice guidelines has been collected directly from the RNAO BPG website. We have done our best to ensure accuracy, however some discrepancies may occur. For official, up-to-date information about the best practice guidelines, please refer to the RNAO website.
