Why Understanding the Lived Experience of Vulnerability is Fundamental to Exploring the Value Base of Care

Vulnerability is a key quality that all health carers will encounter in the people they work with. Indeed to be a nurse, midwife or carer working with such individuals is to have a privileged role within society, a role which demands that we exercise that privilege with responsibility, care and compassion. Yet there have been a plethora of concerns raised about poor standards of care within the NHS (Francis 2009, 2010) leading to a national...