Vulnerable Populations in Current Events NUR/440 January 24‚ 2010 Vulnerable Populations in Current Events Smith‚ Tingle‚ and Twiss (2010) estimate in the year 2030‚ 20% of all Americans will be elderly adults. This is a vulnerable population that will have barriers including transportation‚ mobility‚ financial‚ and medical. As this vulnerable population continues to age‚ they often find it difficult to ask for help‚ which further increases the barriers they must overcome. Defining a Vulnerable
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Vulnerable populations are defined as those at greater risk for poor health status and health care access‚ vulnerable groups are categorized by: • Disease: e.g.‚ HIV‚ cancer or any chronic health conditions‚ • Age groups: e.g.‚ the elderly‚ children • Demographics e.g.‚ homeless individuals • Racial and ethnic minorities‚ • low SES populations • And those without adequate potential access to care (e.g.‚ the uninsured or those without a regular source of care) (NCBI‚ 2005). The health
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vulnerability by definition is “exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed‚ either physically or emotionally. The term vulnerable population takes it a step further and is defined as “a population at risk”. There are many different versions of the definition of vulnerable population but the underlying message is always a population of heightened risk that needs service. Vulnerable populations exist across‚ the globe‚ across the nation‚ across the city and maybe even across the street from any given
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International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management Emerald Article: Customer complaint behaviour towards hotel restaurant services Vincent C.S. Heung‚ Terry Lam Article information: To cite this document: Vincent C.S. Heung‚ Terry Lam‚ (2003)‚"Customer complaint behaviour towards hotel restaurant services"‚ International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management‚ Vol. 15 Iss: 5 pp. 283 - 289 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09596110310482209 Downloaded
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a different way of looking at it. A vulnerable population can be a group of people that show factors of an increased chance of their health status becoming poor. This can be that they are lacking access to care and their chance of illness is higher than other patients (Stanhope and Lancaster‚ 2014). In other words‚ vulnerable populations are at risk for poor physical‚ psychological or social health (De Chesnay‚ 2012). One population in particular are adults living in poverty. Vulnerability can
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Surgical patients as a vulnerable populationHealth Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population / Nur 440October 20‚ 2014Deanna Radford Surgical patients as a vulnerable population I have worked in the surgical field for about eight years. I like to relate what we are learning in the classroom to real life. I read an interesting article about the surgical patient and how they classify as a vulnerable population. A population I am comfortable working with. A population I encounter every shift
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taken to an adult prison to get sexxually and physically harrasted and leave the jail with a urge to commit suicide. Kids who are getting punished by doing crime are being sentenced to adult facilities. Although teenagers who commit these crimes may deserve to be harshly punished‚ Juveniles who commit violent crimes should no longer undergo punishments as harsh as their adult counterparts because kids deserve a second chance to overcome their faulty selves which is unachievable in adult prisons.
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respond to complaints. Dealing with a complaint I would follow the step by step list to respond to a complaint effectively and be professional‚ if a parent arrived in the nursery with a complaint as a practitioner I would establish if this is something I could deal with personally‚ if it is we could deal with it there and then if not then I would inform the senior member of staff within the room about the situation (depending on how serious the complaint is) (if a serious complaint) I guide
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COMPLAINT HANDLING Complaints 1. What causes people to complain? Why they don’t complain? Why do complaints occur? Complaints occur due to: - ← Delay ← Bad product ← Bad service ← Wrong/Incomplete Information ← A promise that is not kept 2. Why complaints need to be handled? ← Increase brand loyalty ← Improve on quality ← To gain an edge over the competitor ← To retain customers ← To stop unsatisfied customer from spreading bad word of mouth ← To strengthen the buyer-seller
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Vulnerable populations Despite efforts and goals in the United States to reduce or eliminate disparities in healthcare by 2010‚ significant disparities‚ including risk factors‚ access to healthcare‚ morbidity‚ and mortality‚ continues in vulnerable populations. For example‚ studies find that Americans living in poverty are much more likely to be in fair or poor health and have disabling conditions‚ and are less likely to have used many types of healthcare. I believe that more effort
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