Vulnerable individual or group
NURS 1423: Care and Support of Vulnerable Individuals and Groups
Essay plan – this is to help you to structure your work and address each essay component. As a plan, bullet points are sufficient, in the essay you turn it into academic writing.
Introduction –
what you’re going to do, the group (individual –discuss with marker) you’ve chosen and why you’ve chosen them.
You may also want to include a brief consideration of what vulnerability is:
Factors which contribute to the group being vulnerable ie what is it about that situation makes them vulnerable. Discuss briefly 3-8 different factors (in the essay a sentence or two on each factor)
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Focus on 2 or 3 of these in more detail (in the essay a paragraph or two on each) and discuss an intervention which will specifically address that vulnerability.
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Discuss what you expect the outcomes of the interventions to be.
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At least one intervention should be multi-agency, briefly consider the implications of multi agency working
Conclusion –
Summarise what you have done (do not include new information).
References
You are asked to write a 2000 word essay which focuses on an individual or group who are seen as being vulnerable, analyse the factors which contribute to this and discuss the multi professional and /or multi agency interventions to help reduce these factors including the expected outcomes of such interventions.
1. Identify a vulnerable individual or group from your field of nursing / midwifery and analyse the factors which can contribute to this person or group being viewed as vulnerable
2. Discuss the multi professional and / or multi agency interventions which can be
implemented to try to reduce the identified vulnerability factors
3. Discuss the expected outcomes of these multi-professional and / or multi agency interventions.
