Am I Sure I Want to Go Down This Road? Hesitations in the Reporting of Child Maltreatment by Nurses

作者：Ei**ach Shelly S^*; Driessnack Martha

来源：Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 2010, 15(4): 317-323.

DOI：10.1111/j.1744-6155.2010.00259.x

• Child maltreatment
• mandatory reporting
• nursing

PURPOSE.
The purpose of this study was to explore the process of mandated reporting of child maltreatment by pediatric nurses.
DESIGN & METHODS.
Qualitative description using a grounded theory lens was used with a cross-section of pediatric nurses.
RESULTS.
A point of divergence in the reporting process appears to occur at the first of three moderating points. When nurses hesitate at this first point, decision-making becomes complex and delays the reporting process, giving rise to two themes: "It's the law" and "The ones that haunt you."
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS.
Increasing educational efforts focused on the recognition of child maltreatment may impact nurses' low rate of reporting.

• 出版日期2010-10