Abstract
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to elucidate how persons with disabilities can be rendered vulnerable in various clinical contexts, which has implications for how nurses should identify and address different types of barriers for patients in their care. The chapter begins by surveying the conceptual territory surrounding the term “disability,” since how this term is conceptualized will make a difference for framing the nature of vulnerabilities as they arise. Next, the chapter examines how institutional environments (such as hospitals and nursing homes) can limit opportunities for agency, and this discussion will include the challenges faced by persons with physical, intellectual, and psychiatric disabilities. This chapter emphasizes how nurses, nurse assistants, and healthcare facilities should proactively mitigate vulnerabilities for disabled people and enable different forms of agency.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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