Citation

Greipp ME. J. Pediatr. Health Care 1997; 11(6): 258-265.

Affiliation

Department of Nursing at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9423410

Abstract

This article presents a unique approach to analyzing the issue of mandatory reporting suspected child abuse from an ethical decision-making perspective with a nursing model. Sometimes nurses confront this problem in their own families or in their neighborhoods or social groups. Clearly, deciding to intervene is a challenging and difficult process. Yet reporting is mandated by law. A model of ethical decision-making may guide the clinician in this process.

Language: en