Explain how actual ‘care’ for vulnerable populations is impacted or affected by attitudes, values, and expectations of the nurse, the patient, or both. Briefly discuss the professional nurse as role model to the client. This is not asking you to explain how a nurse should care for someone or what would happen if the nurse is not ‘nice.’ How is care impacted by the above?
• Describe a technique for behavioral change (cite this) that would promote health and manage illness when caring for self, family, and community populations. This needs to be an actual technique that has been developed to change a non-healthy behavior. Apply this to patients and NOT nurses.