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Emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence

BACKGROUND: Millennium Developmental Goal 3 (MDG 3) aims at enhancing gender equity and empowerment of women. Emergency nurses who often encounter women injured by their intimate partners are at risk of developing vicarious traumatisation, which may influence their ability to empower women to move b...

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Autores principales: van der Wath, Annatjie, van Wyk, Neltjie, van Rensburg, Elsie Janse
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27380838
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v8i2.957
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van Wyk, Neltjie
van Rensburg, Elsie Janse
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description BACKGROUND: Millennium Developmental Goal 3 (MDG 3) aims at enhancing gender equity and empowerment of women. Emergency nurses who often encounter women injured by their intimate partners are at risk of developing vicarious traumatisation, which may influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence. AIM: This article aims to, (1) describe emergency nurses’ ways of coping with the exposure to survivors of intimate partner violence, and (2) recommend a way towards effective coping that will enhance emergency nurses’ abilities to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence to contribute to the achievement of MDG 3. SETTING: The study was conducted in emergency units of two public hospitals in an urban setting in South Africa. METHOD: A qualitative design and descriptive phenomenological method was used. Emergency nurses working in the setting were purposively sampled and interviewed. The data were analysed by searching for the essence and meaning attached to the exposure of emergency nurses to survivors of intimate partner violence. RESULTS: Emergency nurses’ coping responses were either aimed at avoiding or dealing with their exposure to survivors of intimate partner violence. Coping aimed at dealing with the exposure included seeking support, emotion regulation and accommodative coping. CONCLUSION: Emergency nurses employ either effective or ineffective ways of coping. Less effective ways of coping may increase their risk of vicarious and secondary traumatisation, which in turn may influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence.
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spelling pubmed-48593262016-05-09 Emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence van der Wath, Annatjie van Wyk, Neltjie van Rensburg, Elsie Janse Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med Original Research BACKGROUND: Millennium Developmental Goal 3 (MDG 3) aims at enhancing gender equity and empowerment of women. Emergency nurses who often encounter women injured by their intimate partners are at risk of developing vicarious traumatisation, which may influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence. AIM: This article aims to, (1) describe emergency nurses’ ways of coping with the exposure to survivors of intimate partner violence, and (2) recommend a way towards effective coping that will enhance emergency nurses’ abilities to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence to contribute to the achievement of MDG 3. SETTING: The study was conducted in emergency units of two public hospitals in an urban setting in South Africa. METHOD: A qualitative design and descriptive phenomenological method was used. Emergency nurses working in the setting were purposively sampled and interviewed. The data were analysed by searching for the essence and meaning attached to the exposure of emergency nurses to survivors of intimate partner violence. RESULTS: Emergency nurses’ coping responses were either aimed at avoiding or dealing with their exposure to survivors of intimate partner violence. Coping aimed at dealing with the exposure included seeking support, emotion regulation and accommodative coping. CONCLUSION: Emergency nurses employ either effective or ineffective ways of coping. Less effective ways of coping may increase their risk of vicarious and secondary traumatisation, which in turn may influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence. AOSIS 2016-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4859326/ /pubmed/27380838 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v8i2.957 Text en © 2016. The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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van Rensburg, Elsie Janse
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title_full Emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence
title_fullStr Emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence
title_full_unstemmed Emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence
title_short Emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence
title_sort emergency nurses’ ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27380838
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v8i2.957
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