**As of September 30, 2008 All of the individual NFP clients, nurse home visitors, and community stakeholders who were invited to participate in the study, provided consent and completed an initial interview or focus group.
[[ 34], p. 235] As triangulation of data sources is a hallmark of case study research [ 32], purposeful samples of NFP clients, nurse home visitors and community stakeholders were invited to participate in the study so that we could develop an in-depth, multi-perspective understanding of the issue of responding to IPV within this home visitation program.
Mr Sydow reckons that eventually about 5% of his clients' nurses will come from an external pool.Agencies such as Mr Lüngen's, in contrast, do not employ those for whom they find work, as Zeitarbeit firms do, but act as brokers.
Client - nurse interaction is a major aspect in nursing [ 7], and variables related to client-nurse interactions include: the actors (client and nurse), social context for contact, process of interaction, and client health outcomes [ 7, 8].
According to Kim, nursing includes four domain typologies: the client, the client-nurse, the practice, and the environment domains [ 6, 7].
The conclusion of this is a call for education in cultural competence for health care providers to assist in developing a trusting client-nurse relationship, which is in line with well-known recommendations [ 34- 36].
NFP clients, nurses and stakeholders identified the need for modifications to the existing NFP program; this led to the development of an intervention that includes universal and targeted components to assist NFP nurses in addressing IPV with their clients.
Situated at the centre of the pMTCT programme as service providers and at the same time being women exposed to the same risks as their clients, nurse-counsellors are invaluable sources of information.
Samantha Bliss, owner of Mackenzie's in Carmel, described one such client, a nurse, who decided to get a tattoo on her wrist in memory of a son killed by a drunken driver.
