%0 Journal Article
%T The Na£¿ve nurse: revisiting vulnerability for nursing
%A Laura Tomm-Bonde
%J BMC Nursing
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1472-6955-11-5
%X The purpose of this paper is to examine nursing contributions to the concept of vulnerability and consider how a broader perspective that includes socio-political dimensions may assist nurses to reach beyond the immediate milieu of the patient into the dominant social, political, and economic structures that produce and sustain vulnerability.By broadening nurse¡¯s conceptualization of vulnerability, nurses can obtain the consciousness needed to move beyond a peripheral role of nursing that has been dominantly situated within institutional settings to contribute in the larger arena of social, economic, political and global affairs.
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6955/11/5/abstract