Background: Intimate partner violence, nursing care, men’s violence against women, nurses. Intimate partner violence and men’s violence against women is a health problem globally,socially and across all social classes. Different theoretical perspectives exist about the causes of intimate partner violence. Health consequences for women who are victims of intimate partner violence is a fact and go against human rights. Healthcare and nurses have a responsibility in providing good reception and good nursing care. Women exposed to intimate partner violence have torn experiences of nurses nursing care. Aim: To describe nurses’ nursing care towards women that are victims of intimate partner violence. Method: A literature study based on nine qualitative scientific articles with a content analysis. Results: Two main categories and four sub-categories emerged about nurses’ care of abused women. The main category Aspects related to care with the subcategories Nurses’ treatment and Nurses’ nursing measures. The main category Aspects related to communication with the subcategories Nurses’ identification of intimate partner violence and Nurses’ sensitivity. Conclusion: A deficiency in nursing care is between nurses and women exposed to intimate partner violence. Organizational factor, social structures and uncertainty about referrals can affect nursing care. Screening for intimate partner violence, knowledge and experience of intimate partner violence as well as the women participating in their own care is important to provide good care. Clinical significance: Discussions regarding attitudes toward intimate partner violence and how the nurses nursing care can be facilitated on organizational level need to be carried out. Training about intimate partner violence is still needed in workplaces and nursing school to provide better care to women exposed to intimate partner violence. Screening should be implemented and insured in nursing care.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:rkh-4164 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Vierth, Alva, Ghebrehawariat, Goitom |
| Publisher | Röda Korsets Högskola |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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