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Caring versus empowerment: considerations for nursing practice
Author(s) -
Malin Nigel,
Teasdale Kevin
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01723.x
Subject(s) - empowerment , nursing , presentation (obstetrics) , nursing theory , health care , clinical practice , psychology , politics , nursing practice , medline , medicine , political science , law , radiology
The authors argue that there is a tension between the concepts of caring and empowerment This tension appears in political and managerial debates over how best to run a health service, and it reappears in the clinical situation in nursing dilemmas over the presentation of information to patients The authors review the major contributions to theory from health care literature, and use case studies to explore some of the clinical implications of these theories for nursing practice