Introducing Vulnerability Theory for Nursing Research Concerning Infants in Out of Home Care.

IF 2.6 3区医学 Q1 NURSING

Nursing Philosophy Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1111/nup.70023

Rachel Gregory-Wilson, Liesel Spencer, Elizabeth Handsley, Toby Raeburn

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Abstract

Nurses often play crucial roles on teams involved in providing care to infants and families in the context of child protection services, making them well-placed to research topics concerning these groups. Developed by North American legal scholar Martha Fineman in 2008, a contemporary macro-legal-political theory with potential to inform studies related to the nexus between healthcare and law is 'vulnerability theory.' Conceiving vulnerability as a universal, inevitable, and enduring aspect of the human condition, it contends that the onus is on the State to respond to universal vulnerability by ensuring institutions and structures do not confer unfair advantage or disadvantage. When access to rights is particularly difficult, a 'targeted group approach' should be considered as well as consideration of the notion that responses to vulnerability have the potential to increase vulnerability. This paper outlines the background of vulnerability theory, explaining its key tenets and criticisms, before considering how it might be useful to inform studies focused on infants in out of home care.

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将脆弱性理论引入婴儿外出护理研究。

在儿童保护服务的背景下，护士经常在为婴儿和家庭提供护理的团队中发挥关键作用，这使他们能够很好地研究与这些群体有关的主题。“脆弱性理论”（vulnerability theory）是由北美法律学者玛莎•法恩曼（Martha Fineman）于2008年提出的一种当代宏观法律政治理论，有可能为医疗保健与法律之间关系的相关研究提供信息。它认为脆弱性是人类状况的一个普遍、不可避免和持久的方面，认为国家有责任通过确保体制和结构不给予不公平的优势或劣势来对普遍脆弱性作出反应。当获得权利特别困难时，应考虑采用“目标群体方法”，并考虑对脆弱性的反应有可能增加脆弱性的概念。本文概述了脆弱性理论的背景，解释了它的关键原则和批评，然后考虑了它如何可能是有用的，以告知研究集中在婴儿的家庭外护理。

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Nursing Philosophy NURSING-

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4.80

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9.10%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Nursing Philosophy provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues in nursing. These focus on questions relating to the nature of nursing and to the phenomena of key relevance to it. For example, any understanding of what nursing is presupposes some conception of just what nurses are trying to do when they nurse. But what are the ends of nursing? Are they to promote health, prevent disease, promote well-being, enhance autonomy, relieve suffering, or some combination of these? How are these ends are to be met? What kind of knowledge is needed in order to nurse? Practical, theoretical, aesthetic, moral, political, ''intuitive'' or some other? Papers that explore other aspects of philosophical enquiry and analysis of relevance to nursing (and any other healthcare or social care activity) are also welcome and might include, but not be limited to, critical discussions of the work of nurse theorists who have advanced philosophical claims (e.g., Benner, Benner and Wrubel, Carper, Schrok, Watson, Parse and so on) as well as critical engagement with philosophers (e.g., Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Polanyi, Taylor, MacIntyre and so on) whose work informs health care in general and nursing in particular.