CITI CERTIFCATION NOTES

What makes an individual vulnerable?

they are not able to make decisions for themselves to provide voluntary informed consent - for example: children, cognitively impaired indiv

or can also be due to the situatio they are in ( being incarcerated or being insitutionaiized)

• they can be eaily manipulated/they may be a convenient or readily available population

Who is a vulnerable individual?

people in need of additional protections or considerations

pregnant women, prisoners, human fetuses, racial or ethnic minorities, instutionalized persons, neonates, indivs with physical disabilities, children, economically, socially disadvantaged, indivs mental disabilities or cognitive impairments, terminally ill or very sick

Those who are vulnerable have been subjected to one or more of ther 4 types of abuses …

1. PHYSICAL CONTROL

2. COERCION

3. UNDUE INFLUENCE

4. MANIPULATION

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