Question

Discuss your experience with a vulnerable population.

Describe the experience and how you felt about it.

Do you think your feelings will influence the type of care you provide, If so, in what ways?

Answer 1

Answer :

Vulnerable populations are the patients who are economically disadvantaged , racial and ethnic minorities , the uninsured ,low income people ,infants ,children , pregnant mothers ,lactating mothers ,elderly populations etc .

Other vulnerable groups :

• Disabled individuals .
• Child abuse .
• Neglected children.
• Domestic violence .
• Sexual assault cases.
• All SCBU/ NICU ,comatose
• Substance abuse .
• Mental illness
• Patient in crisis .
• Immuno compromised
• Chronic illness
• Under nutrition people .

Experience with vulnerable population :

As a health care provider We have the responsibility to provide quality care to the patients for their early recovery .

For children :

Children are the people who dependent for everything upon the mother and family members .

Especially infants need the more care from the mother ,mother should provide exclusive breast feeding to maintain the health of the infant .

As a health care provider We need to educate the mother about importance of exclusive breat feeding to mother .

Breast milk provides all the essencial nutrients for growth and development of infant .

Infant need more care than others because they may get infections early compared to others because of their immature immune system .

Educate the mother to immunise the baby accordingly to prevent 7 vaccine preventable diseases.

For pregnant mother :

Pregnant mother also vulnerable people because she is bearing the baby and she needs extra care for the health care providers .

She should take iron rich diet and protein rich diet and other essential nutrients for the growth and development of foetus .

She should go for antenatal check ups at least 4 visits are needed to know the health status of preganant mother and also prevent the labour complications and risks of pregnancy period .

In later months of pregnancy she needs assistance of other people to complete her works such as cooking , washing , etc .

For children :

Malnutrition is the major risk factor in the children ,because of poor care of children ,poverty ,low socio economic status and poor diet .

If We take the poverty , who are the low income family children dont have the adequate food to eat and they may have the more nutrition deficiency disorders .

Poor parents can't able to provide the adequate diet for children so they are facing malnutrition disorders .

For elderly :

Elderly people also dependent populations because they cant do their work and they need assistance for money ,food and health care and every thing .

We need to provide quality care to elderly people .

As a health care providers We need to provide safe environment for elderly such as providing wheel chairs , bed rails , handles in bathroom and keeping floor dry to prevent from falls .

Health care providers should involve the family members to take care of elderly and support the elderly in ADL s .

Ventilated patients :

For the ventilator cases, they are totally dependents ,sometimes they are in coma .

As a health care providers We need to provide all the care such as her bath , mouth care ,skin care ,suctioning ,chest physiotherapy ,nutrition and providing medications etc .

For patients with chronic conditions :

We need to educate the patients to avoid risk factors as possible

Ex : patient with lung cancer , advice the patient to stop smoking and alcohol drinking etc .

Educate the patients about ntrition ,physical activity , practicing healthy habits and excercises etc .