Answer: The three areas to assess when working with a person who
has been sexually assaulted are:
- Mental stress or trauma
- Physical assault or harm/ injury
- Depression
The two long term and short term outcome for nursing diagnosis
of post trauma syndrome are:
- Diagnosis: Complicated grieving
- Short term outcome: Client will start healthy grieving. Starts
to express her feeling.
- Long term outcome: The client will establish meaningful goals
in the future. The client will build social relationship and will
be socially active.
- Intervention: encourage patient to talk about her/ his
experience. This will reduce the stress. The client should be able
to feel safe and secure. The other intervention should be
assessment of the presence of any disease, which could lead to
depression worsening.