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Yolanda · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

Which teaching should the nurse in an employee assistance program provide to an employee who exhibits symptoms of domestic physical abuse?

A. Have ready access to a gun and learn how to use it
B. Research lawyers who can aid in divorce proceedings
C. File charges of assault and battery
D. Have ready access to the number of a safe house for battered women

Question 2

A client who is in a severely abusive relationship is admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit. The client fears for her life. A staff nurse asks, Why doesn't she just leave him? Which is the nursing supervisor's most appropriate reply?

A. These clients don't know life any other way, and change is not an option until they have improved insight.
B. These clients have limited skills and few vocational abilities to be able to make it on their own.
C. These clients often have a lack of financial independence to support themselves and their children, and most have religious beliefs prohibiting divorce and separation.
D. These clients are paralyzed into inaction by a combination of physical threats and a sense of powerlessness.

briseldagonzales · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
The nurse should provide information about safe houses for battered women when working with a client who has symptoms of domestic physical abuse. Many women feel powerless within the abusive relationship and may be staying in the abusive relationship out of fear for their lives.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
The nursing supervisor is accurate when stating that clients in severely abusive relationships are paralyzed into inaction by a combination of physical threats and a sense of powerlessness. Women often choose to stay with an abusive partner for some of the following reasons: for the children, financial reasons, fear of retaliation, lack of a support network, religious reasons, and/or hopelessness.