advancedmandated-reportingchild-abuseclinical-assessmentcorporal-punishmentAANPCB
During a routine medication management visit, a 38-year-old patient mentions that his 5-year-old daughter "flinches when I raise my hand" and that he "has to spank her sometimes because nothing else works." He describes using an open hand on her buttocks and states it never leaves marks. He sees this as normal discipline. Does the PMHNP have a reporting obligation?