Through multi-agency collaboration, continued development, and revision of strategies, health enhancement and disease prevention are accessible to vulnerable migrant workers. Faculty, students, and staff work with clients to provide quality health education programs, screenings, and referrals to improve their health.

This paper explores and examines how caring is defined. Acentral emphasis is placed upon theoretical frameworks of human caring developed by a number of scholars in the field of nursing and the social sciences. In particular, the espoused theories of Milton Mayeroff, Jean Watson, Kristin Swanson, Sr. Simone Roach, Madeleine Leininger, Anne Boykin and Savinia Schoenhofer, Virginia Knowlden, Sigridur Halldorsdottir, Marilyn Ray, and Delores Gaut are compared and analyzed. Within this exploration to define caring, the lens or perspective through which each theorist views the concept of caring will become more evident, providing the nurse with a greater depth and breadth of knowledge that can be directly applied to practice.

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This paper explores caring within the context of healthcare access in vulnerable populations. Specifically, it connects how underserved status heightens an individual’s vulnerability to poor health. With the increase of disparities and inequalities that exist in the healthcare delivery system, implementation of caring and caring theory are examined as a plausible means to ameliorate the impact of inadequate healthcare coverage. Halldorsdottir’s (1996) theory of caring and uncaring encounters, within nursing and healthcare, from the patient’s perspective frames the discussion.

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