Essay On Vulnerable Population

VULNERABLE POPULATION ASSESSMENT A woman presents to the Emergency Room(ER) in Leon, Iowa with her 2-year-old little girls who she states has had a cough for 1 hour. It is 2pm on a Tuesday and the Community clinic is open. Our community is the second poorest county in Iowa and we have a federally funded Clinic available to anyone regardless of insurance coverage. The patient also is notable wheezy. I ask the mom if she or anyone in the home smokes and she says yes. There are four people total that smoke in the house with this and other children present. Unfortunately, this is a scenario scene all too often in our Emergency Department, mostly due to the amount of poverty, we have in our area and because all too often lower income levels often times parallel lower education levels. Habitually people who can’t afford the necessities in life and receive state assistants also make poor decisions on what they do spend other money on. They repeatedly will spend their money on Cigarettes; this not only hurts their own health but also is detrimental to the growth and development of their children.
Vulnerable Population Overview
Throughout the community I see people either smoking or chewing tobacco. I know for a fact due to working in the Emergency room that people living in poverty who can’t afford over the county Tylenol for their child choose to spend their money on their addiction of tobacco instead. I also am finding that a large number of teenage boys chew tobacco. Their seems to be less of a disgust for people who chew over those who smoke and I would have to see I am less judgmental of these people as well. I believe it’s because their chewing doesn’t affect my health nor does it make the air have a stench. Also people are able to hide tobacco use much easier, whether it is from their parents, their spouse, children, or their