So, the government and community organizations should come together to build strong policies and strategies to prevent the violence against women. There should be zero tolerance policy and nurse or other health professionals should screen for women abuse as they are accessible, enjoy a high degree of public trust, and work in a variety of settings. Also, the screening process provides increasing opportunity for women to disclose abuse and increasing opportunity for nurses to identify women who have been abused; it helps to identify the health impacts; afford opportunities to assist children of abused women and inform women about violence against women services and other options that are available (RNAO, 2005). Overall, this will help to create the healthy violence free community. However, nurses must develop skills to foster an environment that facilitates disclosure; they should know how to ask question and how to respond. Nurses should also develop screening strategies and initial responses that respond to the needs of all women taking into account differences based on race, ethnicity, class, religious/spiritual beliefs, age, ability or sexual orientation. Also, nurses must know the legal obligations when disclosure of abuse is made (RNAO, 2005). Further, health care organization should work with the community at a system level to improve collaboration and integration of services between…
