Caring for the vulnerable : perspectives in nursing theory, practice, and research

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People -- The Advocacy of Role Providers -- Cultural Competence and Resilience -- Social Justice in Nursing: A Review of the Literature -- Low Literacy and Vulnerable Clients -- Nursing Theories Applied to Vulnerable Populations -- Applying Middle Range Concepts and Theories to the Care of Vulnerable Populations -- The Utility of Leininger's Cultural Care Theory with Vulnerable Populations -- Application of the Health Belief Model in Women with Gestational Diabetes -- Common Sense Model of Illness Behaviors: Older Adults Diagnosed with Acute Myocardial Infarction -- Research with Vulnerable Populations: Implications for Developed and Developing Countries -- Sample Qualitative Research Proposal: A Study to Develop a Disclosure to Children Intervention for HIV/AIDS Infected Women -- Sample Quantitative Research Proposal: Effect of Video-Based Education on Knowledge and Perceptions of Risk for Breast Cancer Genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in Urban Latinas -- Life History of Jim: ""I am Not Broken"" -- The Use of Community-Based Participatory Action Research to Understand and Work with Vulnerable Populations -- Decreasing Vulnerability in Birth: Waterbirth in Military Treatment Facilities -- Women of Oman: A Systematic Review of Health Issues -- Transcultural Aspects of Perinatal Health Care of Somali Women -- Navy Nurses: Vulnerable People Caring for Vulnerable Populations -- Pet Therapy in Nursing -- Undocumented Immigrants: Connecting With the Disconnected -- Developing Population-Based Programs for the Vulnerable -- Childhood Autism in a Rural Environment: Reaching Vulnerable Children and Their Families -- Developing a Nurse Practitioner-Run Center for Residents in Rural Appalachia -- Negotiating the ""World:"" Nursing Interventions for a Vulnerable Prison Population Before and After Parole -- Role Transition for Immigrant Women: Vulnerabilities and Strengths -- Youthful Resilience: Programs that Promote Health in Adolescence -- Culture, Collaboration, and Community: Participatory Action Anthropology in Development of Senior ConNEXTions -- Adolescents and Low Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus -- Teaching Nurses about Vulnerable Populations -- Caring for Vulnerable Populations: The Role of the DNP Prepared Nurse -- Community Action by Undergraduate Students on Behalf of Trafficked Children -- The College Bound Adolescent with a Mental Health Disorder -- Homeless College Students -- Teaching Nurse Practitioners about Sex Trafficking: An Honors Capstone Project -- Family Nursing Clinical Immersion in Lac du Flambeau -- Teaching Psychiatric and Community Health Simulations for Vulnerable -- Public Policy and Vulnerable Populations -- The Samfie Man Revisited: Sex Tourism and Trafficking -- Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Health Policy and Advocacy for Vulnerable Populations -- Health Systems and Human Resources for Health: New Dimensions in Global Health Nursing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Caring for the Vulnerable Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research, Fourth Edition explores vulnerability from the perspective of individuals, groups, communities, and populations and specifically addresses how vulnerability affects the field of nursing and its care givers. The Fourth Edition focuses on how to work vulnerable populations, provides an overview of treatments and issues as well as presents a basic structure for caring for the vulnerable with the ultimate goal of providing culturally competent care