title: Ethical decision making and mandatory reporting in cases of suspected child abuse.
abstract: This article presents a unique approach to analyzing the issue of mandatory reporting suspected child abuse from an ethical decision-making perspective with a nursing model. Sometimes nurses confront this problem in their own families or in their neighborhoods or social groups. Clearly, deciding to intervene is a challenging and difficult process. Yet reporting is mandated by law. A model of ethical decision-making may guide the clinician in this process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, USA.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Greipp
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003657:Decision Making; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D016294:Models, Nursing