Ensure client confidentiality.Explain mandatory reporting requirements.Meet in a quiet private place for the interaction.Survivors of IPV are unlikely to disclose sensitive information unless they perceive the nurse to be trustworthy and nonjudgmental. Important considerations in establishing open communication are ensuring confidentiality, disclosing any mandatory reporting responsibilities, and providing a quiet, private place in which to interact. Asking for reasons the client stays in the relationship will place the client on the defensive and harm the nurse-client relationship. The nurse needs to understand that not everyone is going to be willing to talk about the situation. Explaining that refusing to talk about the situation will make it worse is threatening to the client and may cause the nurse-client relationship harm.

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