Intimate partner violence is a global health problem that affects people regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or geographic location (CDC, 2017). The types of abuse inflicted can range from emotional, physical, financial, and sexual - in combination or by themselves. IPV can have devastating short and long-term consequences. Nurses are required to screen for IPV during each encounter with a patient and are in a unique position to identify and intervene Walton & Moss, (2002). Review of the literature shows that graduating nursing students lack confidence in assessing and managing victims of IPV. The purpose of this study is to examine whether senior nursing students are competent to assess for and manage patients who have experienced intimate partner violence.
Methods:
Research design and sampling
- Senior nursing students will complete the computerized Graduating Student Nurse Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence Survey.
- The survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
- The survey will only be administered once to participants. There is no cost to subjects to participate.
- All senior nursing students in their last nursing course are eligible to participate.
Method of Collecting Data
- Participants will complete surveys individually in a computer center on their home campus. Upon completion of their surveys participants are finished with the study.
- Risk: The investigator does not perceive any risks from involvement in this study.
- Protection of subjects:
- Participation is entirely voluntary. Participants can withdraw at any time without consequences of any kind.
- Participants’ signed consent forms will be contained in a secure locked location. The survey will not have any identifying information on them. All data will be accessible only to the researchers on the researchers’ home computer that is password protected.
Time Frame of Study:
- Research will begin upon IRB approval and will end in December 2017.
Data Analysis
- An anonymous online survey is being given so that names, email addresses and other personal information will not be connected to those individuals who choose to participate.
Reporting Procedures
- The target audiences to be reached in the report of this research are fellow nursing faculty and nurses in clinical practice.
Final aggregate results will be available to participants upon request.
Results: Pending
Conclusion: Pending