Nursing Reporting Cases

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According to Assessment Technologies Institute, LLC (2013), mandatory reporting occurs in certain situations where health care providers have a legal obligation to report findings according to state law. Certain situations include nurses reporting cases of suspected child abuse along with suspected abuse of older and/or dependent adults. Ho, Gross, and Bettencourt (2017) state that an estimated one in every four children in the United States experience a form of abuse at some point during their lifetime. As a nurse it is important to learn and recognize the signs and symptoms of the different kinds of abuse. Of all reported cases it is stated that an estimated lifetime cost of child maltreatment is close to $210,000 for non-fatal maltreatment,