Understanding Vulnerability

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