... In these situations it is the job of the nurse to help the client become empowered. As with becoming healthy, clients must empower themselves, as the client has the maximum impact on their life and health (Kuokkanen & Leino-Kipi, 2000). Nurses can only help, by creating a sense of client self-worth, and supporting the process by providing knowledge (empirical, aesthetic, ethical, personal), and skill. (Dam & Nyatanga, 2002). A nurses goal in a client empowering situation, is the well-being of the client, except in this situation the mindset is not "I must get the patient to regain health", the mindset is, "I must help the client regain health" with this mindset the nurse enters into a collaborative relationship with the client, where the client plays the part of an equal partner and, an active (receiving/giving information) participant in regaining health (Kuokkanen & Leino-Kipi, 2000). The active participation of ...

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