Understanding Vulnerability : A Nursing and Healthcare Approach
Vanessa. Heaslip
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (232 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Understanding Vulnerability: A Nursing and Healthcare Approach; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; References; Chapter 2 Understanding vulnerability; Introduction; Defining vulnerability; Vulnerability and healthcare; Professional definitions of vulnerability; Different theoretical explanations for vulnerability; Vulnerability as a mechanism to identify populations at risk of ill health; Vulnerability as a mechanism to identify social groups in need of protection; Vulnerability as a consequence of interaction between different groups in society. - Medical surveillanceConclusion; Links to other chapters; References; Chapter 4 Processes of oppression; Introduction; Overview of the processes; Stereotyping; Stigmatisation; Marginalisation; Invisibilisation; Infantilisation; Medicalisation; Welfarism; Dehumanisation; Trivialisation; Conclusion; Links to other chapters; References; Chapter 5 Professional culture and vulnerability; Introduction; Professional socialisation; Personal values; Professional values; When things go wrong; Advocacy, empowerment, and anti-oppressive practice. - Perspective one: Traditional `pluralist' theoriesSources of power; Perspective two: Marxist and `system' theories of power; Lukes and the three faces of power; The first face of power is that of decision making; The second face is that of non-decision making; The third face of power involves the ability to shape the desires, wants, and needs of others; Perspective three: The 'dispersed power' perspective; Power - the `personal is the political'; Discourse and power; Foucault and the concept of disciplinary power; Example of disciplinary gaze in medical and nursing context. - Social identity and practice. - Thompson's PCS model and the influence of professional cultureVulnerability and `belongingness'; Increasing vulnerability through ritual and routine work practices; Horizontal violence; Conclusion; Links to other chapters; References; Chapter 6 The social construction of vulnerability; Introduction; Social constructionism; Discourses and vulnerability; Language - A vehicle of discourse; Social construction of identity; Essentialist views of identity; Essentialism and stereotyping; Essentialist perspectives and vulnerability; Social identity, oppression, and power; Multiple identities. - Vulnerability as a shifting experienceVulnerability as an existential experience; Mutual vulnerability; Positive dimensions of vulnerability; Models of vulnerability; Conclusion; Links to other chapters; References; Chapter 3 Power, discrimination, and oppression; Introduction; Defining oppression and discrimination; The PCS model of oppression; P - personal level of oppression; C - cultural level of oppression; S - structural level of oppression; The role of power; About power - what is it?; Two types of power?; The effect of power; The abuse of power; Prevention of abuse; Theories of power. - The notion of vulnerability is critical to person-centred and high-quality nursing and healthcare practice, and underpins all nursing education. Understanding Vulnerability: a Nursing and Healthcare Approach focuses on vulnerability experienced every day by patients and clients in healthcare, and provides clear and supportive guidance to nurses and other healthcare practitioners on protecting and caring for vulnerable patients. Taking a fresh, critical and reflective perspective that reflects current trends towards the promotion of equality and acknowledges everyone's vulner
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| ISBN | 9780470671368
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