Intimate partner violence Flashcards
Question 1
A nurse practitioner is attending an education session for health care providers on IPV in the local community. Determine a topic that the nurse practitioner must learn in this education session on IPV for patient care.
State laws for reporting IPV by health care providers
Research opportunities for IPV
Grant writing for IPV funds
Lobbying skill development
State laws for reporting IPV by health care providers
A nurse practitioner is explaining the most common form of violence experienced by women to a group of nursing students. Determine a type of violence that is commonly experienced by women.
Self-neglect
Neglect
Abandonment
Sexual violence
Sexual violence
A nurse practitioner is teaching a group of nursing students about preventing intimate partner violence. Propose one method that the nurse practitioner should include in the education.
Provide social–emotional learning programs for adults only.
Delay dating violence education until adulthood.
Avoid including men and boys in prevention methods.
Teach safe and healthy relationship skills.
Teach safe and healthy relationship skills.
A male patient is demonstrating behaviors that are consistent with perpetration of IPV. Predict a behavior that the patient is demonstrating.
Calm demeanor
Positive comments on the female gender
Statements of beliefs supporting male dominance
Statements supporting equality of men and women
Statements of beliefs supporting male dominance
A patient reports a pattern of repeated, unwanted contact by a previous partner that causes her to fear for her safety. Recommend a term that the nurse practitioner should include in the documentation of this report by the patient.
Intimate partner violence
Sexual coercion
Physical abuse
Family violence
Intimate partner violence
A nurse practitioner is discussing intimate partner violence with a female patient who is at risk for violence with her spouse. Recommend one preventive method that is appropriate for this patient.
Recommend that she avoids telling any support persons about any IPV she experiences.
Encourage a financial independence program.
Advise her to delay the development of a safety plan until she is separated from her spouse.
Advise her to seek a psychologist for information on domestic violence.
Encourage a financial independence program.
A nurse practitioner is reviewing a patient’s medical record for risk factors associated with IPV. Determine a risk factor that the nurse practitioner would identify.
Nondrinker of alcohol
Older age
Self-report of low self-esteem
Use of nonviolent problem-solving techniques
Self-report of low self-esteem
A nurse practitioner suspects that a patient is experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Predict an activity that would lead the nurse practitioner to this conclusion.
Patient’s disclosure of financial struggles
Loss of health insurance because of spouse’s unemployment
Food insecurity from loss of job
Forced sexual intercourse with spouse
Forced sexual intercourse with spouse
A male patient is demonstrating behaviors that are consistent with perpetration of IPV. Predict a behavior that the patient is demonstrating.
Impulsive behaviors
Statements supporting equality of men and women
Statements regarding importance of education for all people
Calm demeanor
Impulsive behaviors
A nurse practitioner is seeing a patient who is at high risk for IPV. Determine which patient is at high risk.
A 22-year-old male who is in a homosexual relationship
Female patient who does not currently have an intimate partner
A 25-year-old female with a planned pregnancy
Bisexual female who is pregnant
Bisexual female who is pregnant
A female patient reports that her spouse has been psychologically aggressive at home. Determine which behavior by the spouse would support this statement.
He follows her to work.
He pushes her to move her out of his way.
He verbally threatens to harm her.
He goes to the patient’s mother’s house unannounced and without invitation.
He verbally threatens to harm her.
A patient has been abused by her boyfriend repeatedly, and the nurse practitioner is concerned that the patient is not performing self-care. Predict a risky behavior that has been associated with IPV of which the nurse practitioner should inquire.
Seeking support of multiple friends
Demonstrating emotional independence
Telling multiple providers about abuse
Binge drinking
Binge drinking
A nurse practitioner in a primary care office is selecting a tool to screen for IPV in a female patient. Identify a tool that would be recommended.
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)
Teen dating violence (TDV) survey
Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST)
Together for Girls tool
Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST)
A nurse practitioner is reviewing a patient’s medical record for risk factors associated with IPV. Determine a risk factor that the nurse practitioner would identify.
High academic achievement
Nondrinker of alcohol
Use of nonviolent problem-solving techniques
Low income
Low income
A female patient is describing relationship struggles with her partner. Propose a statement that tells the nurse practitioner that the patient is in the reconciliation stage of the cycle of abuse.
“He said it wasn’t abuse; it was an accident.”
“I am scared of him; I told him it was my fault.”
“He is threatening to leave me.”
“He tells me that I am stupid.”
“He said it wasn’t abuse; it was an accident.”
