Understanding Vulnerability: A Nursing and Healthcare Approach - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 047067136X ISBN 13: 9780470671368

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Riassunto

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 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.

Special features:
•One of the first books to address the issue of vulnerability from a nursing and healthcare perspective
•Written by a group of experienced professionals, academics and educationalists with both educational and research expertise in the exploration of vulnerability
•Includes narratives, perspectives and case studies, illustrating and bringing to life the issues within the book

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Informazioni sull'autore

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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Dalla quarta di copertina

The notion of vulnerability is critical to person-centred high-quality nursing and healthcare practice,
and underpins all nursing education. Understanding Vulnerability: A Nursing and Healthcare Approach focuses on the 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 highlights 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 personcentred care.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• One of the first books to address the issue of vulnerability from a nursing and
healthcare perspective

• Written by a group of experienced professionals, academics and educationalists with both
educational and research expertise in the exploration of vulnerability

• Includes narratives, perspectives and case studies, illustrating and bringing to life the issues
within the book

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 047067136X
• ISBN 13: 9780470671368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Redattore: Heaslip Vanessa, Ryden Julie
• Contatto del produttore: Wiley-Blackwell; https://www.wiley.com/en-in; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italia