The Naïve nurse: revisiting vulnerability for nursing

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dc.contributor.authorTomm-Bonde, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-27T23:13:20Z
dc.date.available2014-03-27T23:13:20Z
dc.date.copyright2012en_US
dc.date.issued2012-04-20
dc.descriptionBioMed Centralen_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: Nurses in the Western world have given considerable attention to the concept of vulnerability in recent decades. However, nurses have tended to view vulnerability from an individualistic perspective, and have rarely taken into account structural or collective dimensions of the concept. As the need grows for health workers to engage in the global health agenda, nurses must broaden earlier works on vulnerability, noting that conventional conceptualizations and practical applications on the notion of vulnerability warrant extension to include more collective conceptualizations thereby making a more complete understanding of vulnerability in nursing discourse. Discussion: The purpose of this paper is to examine nursing contributions to the concept of vulnerability and consider how a broader perspective that includes socio-political dimensions may assist nurses to reach beyond the immediate milieu of the patient into the dominant social, political, and economic structures that produce and sustain vulnerability. Summary: By broadening nurse’s conceptualization of vulnerability, nurses can obtain the consciousness needed to move beyond a peripheral role of nursing that has been dominantly situated within institutional settings to contribute in the larger arena of social, economic, political and global affairs.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationTomm-Bonde: The Naïve nurse: revisiting vulnerability for nursing. BMC Nursing 2012 11:5en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6955/11/5
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6955-11-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5214
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Nursing
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Nursing
dc.titleThe Naïve nurse: revisiting vulnerability for nursingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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