Nursing Publications

Power and Empowerment: Critical concepts in the nurse-client relationship

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2005

Journal

Contemporary Nurse:a journal for the Australian nursing profession

Volume

20

Issue

1

First Page

57

Last Page

66

URL with Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.20.1.57

Abstract

Two key concepts in health promotion within the nurse-client relationship are power and empowerment. Theorists and researchers have not achieved consensus on how they are to be defined and addressed. However, both power and empowerment are recognized to occur at macro and micro levels, and as such need to be addressed at each level. Using a critical nursing perspective, this article explores these concepts it identifies concerns that arise around power and risks that arise in empowerment practice. Nurses are challenge to develop a new way of seeing empowerment practice, and encouraged to focus on 'being with' clients, rather than 'doing to' them.

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