You are a student nurse working in a medical ward where a 70 year old man with dementia is admitted following severe diarrhoea and vomitting. These symptoms have now eased and the doctors are considering discharging him. When you were doing his cares, the patient indicated to you that he is afraid of going home because his wife and daughter physically abuses him. The patient asked you to request the doctors to stay longer in hospital but does not want them to know of the physical abuse he suffer at home .As a student nurse you are faced with a dillemma of whether to infom the doctors of the abuse or not as this will destroy trust between yourself and the patient