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Avoiding Abuse Amongst Vulnerable Groups in the Community: People with a Mental Illness

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Abstract

Nursing, as a creative, humanistic activity is inherently caring. It is argued in this chapter that ‘core, human’ care qualities, therefore, form the starting point for all nursing care, including community nursing care, and that this raises some serious questions about the profession’s understanding of concepts such as quality assurance. Moreover, the categorisation of patients/clients into groups, vulnerable or otherwise, is also misleading.

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  1. Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

    Carolyn Mason RGN, RHV, RNT, BA, PhD (Lecturer in Nursing) (Lecturer in Nursing)

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Long, A. (1997). Avoiding Abuse Amongst Vulnerable Groups in the Community: People with a Mental Illness. In: Mason, C. (eds) Achieving Quality in Community Health Care Nursing. Community Health Care Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13904-0_9

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