The Expert Panel on Violence generates new knowledge on violence, its causes and health consequences. The panel’s goal is to disseminate recommendations for health policy, health education, and best practices based on the synthesis of scientific findings and scholarship related to violence.

Inaugural Year: 1993

Current Chairs: 

Previous Chairs: Beatrice Yorker (2003), Barbara J. Parker (2005)

Frequency of Meetings: Annually in person

Publications:

2003        American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Violence Policy

Recommendations for Nurses Caring for Victims of Torture, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 24:6,595 — 597

2002    American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Violence: Recommendations on Workplace Violence.

1993        Violence as a Nursing Priority: Policy Implications, Nursing Outlook, Vol. 41, No. 2.

Charge by Expert Panel:
To serve the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy related to violence of all kinds; generate, synthesize and disseminate nursing knowledge on violence its causes and health consequences; establish partnerships/linkages with other health policy organizations, consumer groups, and agencies related to violence and work with partners to organize and lead events that disseminate knowledge, ideas, and policy positions related to violence.

Summary:
Beginning in the 1980’s violence shifted from being viewed as a social problem to a significant health problem.  Additionally, Healthy People Objectives, which define the major public health agenda for the nation has consistently included objectives for reducing and preventing violence related health consequences for families, women, youth and children. Violence-related suffering and death occur across the lifespan and in recent years, it has become increasingly clear that there are links among the different types of violence whether they are self-inflicted, interpersonal or collective. The health effects of violence are now known to be pervasive and to persist long after the violence has ended. Because nurses are concerned with both the causes and consequences of violence, the Expert Panel on Violence was formed to provide the American Academy of Nursing informed advocacy on nursing practice, research, and education related to violence and health.

The Panel is currently Generatating new knowledge on violence its causes and health effects and disseminating health policy, health education, and practice recommendations based on the synthesis of scientific findings and scholarship related to violence.

Resources

Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Challenges, Promising Practices and Recommendations