Caring for the Displaced and Uninsured: Clinical Case Studies in Nursing and Healthcare

An essential text to understanding key aspects of caring for uninsured people from underserved populations

Caring  for the Displaced and Uninsured presents clinical case studies that  focus on the issues faced primarily by patients who are uninsured,  self-paying, or are visiting from their home countries. While addressing  the clinical aspects of primary care for a variety of conditions, these  case studies go a step further to confront the issues faced by patients  who seek care in clinics for the uninsured. Each case highlights the  challenges presented by cultural, language and economic differences to  providing high quality care, in particular for those whose jobs  negatively affect their health, such as through musculoskeletal pain,  neurological problems, prolonged standing, depression, or anxiety about  feeding and housing their families.

The cases explore how the  healthcare provider approaches care with insufficient resources for  patients who may have fled torture and violence, poverty and  homelessness to face new challenges in the United States. The healthcare  provider plays a key role in the adjustment of people seeking a better  life for themselves and their families.

Caring for the Displaced and Uninsured addresses:
Issues  related to family, medication, food, housing, finances, work, trauma,  mental health, specialty access, delayed screening, visitors, and  immigrationHow to think in broader terms when treating immigrant or  uninsured patientsThe nuances of treating patients who have lived  outside of their home country, apart from their families, for many  yearsTips for providing quality healthcare within the parameters that  currently exist in the healthcare system
This text provides valuable  insight and perspective for nursing and healthcare students,  particularly those taking community health classes and classes that  focus on uninsured and underserved populations.