{"product_id":"understanding-vulnerability-isbn-9780470671368","title":"Understanding Vulnerability","description":"The notion of vulnerability is critical to person-centred and high-quality nursing and healthcare practice, and underpins all nursing education. \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Vulnerability: a Nursing and Healthcare Approach\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Taking a fresh, critical and reflective perspective that reflects current trends towards the promotion of equality and acknowledges everyone’s vulnerability, this book is essential reading for all nursing and healthcare students, as well as healthcare practitioners who are committed to providing person-centred care.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Special features:\u003cbr\u003e  •One of the first books to address the issue of vulnerability from a nursing and healthcare perspective\u003cbr\u003e  •Written by a group of experienced professionals, academics and educationalists with both educational and research expertise in the exploration of vulnerability\u003cbr\u003e  •Includes narratives, perspectives and case studies, illustrating and bringing to life the issues within the book \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanessa Heaslip and Julie Ryden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Understanding vulnerability 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanessa Heaslip\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Power, discrimination, and oppression 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Ryden and Chris Willetts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Processes of oppression 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Ryden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Professional culture and vulnerability 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Cooper and Janet Scammell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The social construction of vulnerability 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Scammell and Gill Calvin Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Psychological perspectives of vulnerability 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNikki Glendening and Sid Carter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Psychosocial experiences and implications of vulnerability 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Willetts, Gill Calvin Thomas and Vanessa Heaslip\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Working to reduce vulnerability 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Willetts, Julie Ryden and Gill Calvin Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Conclusion 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Ryden and Vanessa Heaslip\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eABOUT THE EDITORS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Heaslip\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Bournemouth University, Bournemouth,\u003cbr\u003eUK. Clinically she worked as a District Nurse and specialist practitioner for older people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Ryden\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK. 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