Lucy Barnes, a 30-year-old woman who is 25 weeks pregnant, comesto the emergency department of Parkfield Community Hospital. Shesays she fell and hit her head at home and is having headaches.During the assessment, the nurse notices multiple bruises invarious stages of healing over her body and asks Lucy how she gotthem. Lucy says that she is just clumsy and falls a lot. While thenurse is assessing Lucy, another nurse enters the room to tell Lucythat her boyfriend is there to take her back home. At that point,Lucy becomes frightened and tells the nurse that her boyfriend hashit her many times before and had knocked her down today. She sayshe has threatened to kill her if she tells anyone and she does notwant to leave with him. Question 1 Identify questions that thenurse could use in continuing her assessment and in documenting thediscussion with Lucy. Question 2 What other people should beinvolved in Lucy’s care in the emergency department? Question 3 Whoshould make the decision about where Lucy should go?
