Unit One: ConceptsChapter 1: Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable PeopleChapter 2: Advocacy: Role of ProvidersChapter 3: Cultural Competence and Resilience Chapter 4: Social Justice in Nursing: A Review of the LiteratureChapter 5: Low Literacy and Vulnerable ClientsUnit Two: Nursing TheoriesChapter 6: Nursing Theories Applied to Vulnerable Populations: Examples from TurkeyChapter 7: Culturally Competent Care for South Pacific IslandersChapter 8: Theories of "Mothering" in HIV-Infected MothersChapter 9: Giving Voice to Vulnerable Populations: Rogerian TheoryChapter 10: Application of the Barnard Parent/Caregiver-Child Interaction Model to Care of Premature InfantsChapter 11: The Utility of Leininger's Culture Care Theory with Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 12: Positive Skills, Positive Strategies: Solution-Focused NursingChapter 13: Using Self-Efficacy Theory to Help Vulnerable Women BreastfeedUnit Three: ResearchChapter 14: Research with Vulnerable Populations: Methods and Ethical IssuesChapter 15: Sample Qualitative Research Proposal: Childhood Obesity in Latino FamiliesChapter 16: Sample Quantitative Research Proposal: Effect of Video-Based Education on Knowledge and Perceptions of Risk for Breast Cancer Genes BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 in Urban Latino PopulationsChapter 17: Mobile Clinics as Outreach to the UnderservedChapter 18: Life Histories: Affluent Adolescents and Substance AbuseChapter 19: "Staying with HIV/AIDS: A Compressed Ethnography of Zambian WomenChapter 20: Health Systems and Human Resources for Health: New Dimensions in Global Health NursingChapter 21: The Use of Community-Based Participatory Research to Understand and Work with Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 22: Immigrant Vulnerability: Does Capitalism in the United States Matter?Unit Four: PracticeChapter 23: Predisposition to Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus among Immigrants from the Former Soviet UnionChapter 24: Barriers to Healthcare Access for Latino Service Workers in a Resort CommunityChapter 25: Navy Nurses: Vulnerable People Caring for Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 26: Ethics of End-of-Life CareChapter 27: The "SamfieMan" RevisitedUnit Five: ProgramsChapter 28: Program Development for Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 29: Dartmouth Center for Childhood Autism: A Nurse-Led Initiative for Reaching Vulnerable Children and Their FamiliesChapter 30: Developing a Nurse-Practitioner Run Center for Residents in Rural AppalachiaChapter 31: Strategies for Working with Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Lessons Learned in AlaskaUnit Six: Teaching-LearningChapter 32: Teaching Nurses about Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 33: Health Communities and Vulnerability: Enhancing Curricula for Teaching Population Based NursingChapter 34: Preparing Nursing Professionals to be Advocates: Service LearningChapter 35: Working with Graduate Students to Develop Cultural CompetenceChapter 36: Assessing the Needs of the Homeless in Townsville, USAChapter 37: Designing and Implementing a Cultural Competence Education Model of School Nurses: Working with African American Children and FamiliesChapter 38: Clinical Immersion in Family Nursing Practice in Lac du FlambeauUnit Seven: Policy ImplicationsChapter 39: Public Policy and Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 40: Advancing Health Care Policy through the Use of the Political Narrative to Give Voice to a Vulnerable PopulationChapter 41: Health Policy and Advocacy for Vulnerable PopulationsChapter 42: The Nursing Workforce Shortage: The Vulnerability of the Health Care System.