Heaslip / Ryden Understanding Vulnerability

A Nursing and Healthcare Approach
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-48966-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

The notion of vulnerability is critical to person-centred andhigh-quality nursing and healthcare practice, and underpins allnursing education. Understanding Vulnerability: a Nursing andHealthcare Approach focuses on vulnerability experienced everyday by patients and clients in healthcare, and provides clear andsupportive guidance to nurses and other healthcare practitioners onprotecting and caring for vulnerable patients.
Taking a fresh, critical and reflective perspective that reflectscurrent trends towards the promotion of equality and acknowledgeseveryone's vulnerability, this book is essential reading forall nursing and healthcare students, as well as healthcarepractitioners who are committed to providing person-centredcare.
Special features:
*One of the first books to address the issue ofvulnerability from a nursing and healthcare perspective
*Written by a group of experienced professionals,academics and educationalists with both educational and researchexpertise in the exploration of vulnerability
*Includes narratives, perspectives and case studies,illustrating and bringing to life the issues within the book

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heaslip, Vanessa

Ryden, Julie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors viii
1 Introduction 1
Vanessa Heaslip and Julie Ryden
2 Understanding vulnerability 6
Vanessa Heaslip
3 Power, discrimination, and oppression 28
Julie Ryden and Chris Willetts
4 Processes of oppression 65
Julie Ryden
5 Professional culture and vulnerability 91
Karen Cooper and Janet Scammell
6 The social construction of vulnerability 111
Janet Scammell and Gill Calvin Thomas
7 Psychological perspectives of vulnerability 132
Nikki Glendening and Sid Carter
8 Psychosocial experiences and implications of vulnerability 154
Chris Willetts, Gill Calvin Thomas and Vanessa Heaslip
9 Working to reduce vulnerability 177
Chris Willetts, Julie Ryden and Gill Calvin Thomas
10 Conclusion 209
Julie Ryden and Vanessa Heaslip
Index 218

Über Autor(innen)

ABOUT THE EDITORS
Vanessa Heaslip is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Bournemouth University, Bournemouth,
UK. Clinically she worked as a District Nurse and specialist practitioner for older people.
Julie Ryden is a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK. Clinically she
worked as a District Nurse.
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