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2017 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Factors that prevent the nurse from mandatory reporting children in health care (English)
Abstract [en]
Background: It's a fundamental principal to protect children's rights. Through legislation, child abuse has been prohibited in many countries. Nurses working with children has a frontline role in identifying and reporting suspected or known child abuse. Mandatory reporting is one of the nurse's duty, reluctancy to report can lead to misconduct but it also leads to children suffering.
Aim: The purpose of this degree project was to identify factors preventing nurses from mandatory reporting of children in health care.
Method: A literature study based on using and analysing nine qualitative articles.
Results: Three themes emerged in the result. The first theme was knowledge deficit, with two subthemes which were the need of education of signs and symptoms and the other subtheme was insufficient experiences. The second theme was nurses strained work environment with three subthemes. The first subtheme was the lack of routines, the second one miss information and the third one lack of cooperation and communication. The third theme consists of two subthemes, which were the lack of emotional support and the experience of fear. The results showed that nurses due to different factors relinquished from mandatory reporting.
Conclusion: The results highlighted that education and training was needed among nurses to gain knowledge on how to safeguard children and establish mandatory reporting. Thus, support from colleagues and managers agencies dealing with child safety was highly valued by nurses. Implementation of education, training and support could improve the cooperation in protecting children.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 18
Keywords [en]
Child abuse, mandatory reporting, nurse's attitudes, nursing, reporting barriers
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12179Local ID: EXO502OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-12179DiVA, id: diva2:1186140
Subject / course
Nursing science
Educational program
Nursing Programme
Supervisors
Examiners
2018-03-072018-02-272018-03-15Bibliographically approved