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The Practice of Empowerment and Coercion by Expert Public Health Nurses
Author(s) -
Zerwekh Joyce V.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1992.tb00232.x
Subject(s) - coercion (linguistics) , empowerment , public health , nursing , psychology , political science , sociology , public relations , engineering ethics , medicine , law , engineering , philosophy , linguistics
This article describes the dialectic of public health nursing responsibility to empower families in self care as well as the nursing responsibility to evoke authority as needed to protect children from violence and neglect. Through qualitative study of expert home visiting public health nurses' anecdotes (N=95), these apparently contradictory activities were discovered to co‐exist in helping relationships. The synthesis of the apparent contradictions applies community rather than autonomy as the fundamental moral guide