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Issues and influences on sexual violence within the adolescent population.

Heidi Collins Fantasia, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, is a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College, William F. Connell School of Nursing in Chestnut Hill, MA, and is a women’s health nurse practitioner for Health Quarters, Beverly, MA. As guest editors of this series, we are clinicians, researchers, scholars, and colleagues. Each of us currently cares for adolescent patients in our roles as women’s health nurse practitioners. Historically, we have practiced in hospital settings and a variety of community health, college health, and reproductive health centers.The one pervasive theme that has unfortunately followed us in our careers, regardless of practice site, location, or patient population, is the intersection of sexual health and violence, especially among adolescents. We know that our experiences as nurses caring for this population are not unique. Therefore, our objective for this In Focus series is to illuminate the salient issues that aiect adolescent patients within the context of safety and violence.