Advanced practice nurse attitudes toward sex offender patients |
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Authors: | Rash Elizabeth Winton Mark A |
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Affiliation: | College of Nursing, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. erash@mail.ucf.edu |
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Abstract: | PURPOSE: To determine advanced practice nurses' (APNs') attitudes and behaviors toward patients in their practices who are registered sex offenders. DATA SOURCES: An online survey of 300 APN members of a local APN organization asking respondents to identify the behavioral actions they were likely to agree or disagree with when faced with a scenario of realizing that a sex offender was a patient in their practice. Sixty-nine respondents submitted completed surveys. CONCLUSIONS: There was an ambiguity of behavioral responses and no consensus among APNs on how to respond to the issue of a sex offender patient in a healthcare practice. There was also a lack of awareness of whether sex offenders were patients in their practice. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The modest number of respondents and their demographic homogeneity limit the ability to draw any conclusions or generalizations from this study. While awareness of a known sex offender in a practice is unlikely to alter direct patient care, it may have an impact on office policies and procedures and should be a consideration of all involved staff, including providers, ancillary team members, and administrative personnel. |
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Keywords: | APN attitudes sex offenders nursing practice Internet survey research |
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