The instructor is teaching student nurses about identifying members of vulnerable populations when the nursing student asks, "Why is it that not all poor people are considered members of vulnerable populations?" How should the nurse respond?
a. "All poor people are members of a vulnerable population."
b. "Poor people are members of a vulnerable population only if they take drugs."
c. "Poor people are members of a vulnerable population only if they are homeless."
d. "Members of vulnerable groups frequently have a combination of risk factors."
ANS: D
Members of vulnerable groups frequently have many risks or a combination of risk factors that make them more sensitive to the negative effects of individual risk factors. Individual risk factors are not always overwhelming, depending on the patient's beliefs and values and sources of social support.
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