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Patient empowerment: Emancipatory or technological practice?
Patient Education and Counselling, 11/03/09

Piper S – Empowerment is a complex, multi–dimensional, contested concept which can reflect a broad socio–political agenda, a radical emancipatory process or, as the findings from this qualitative study suggest, pragmatic interventions operating within the confines of a slightly modified medical model. If the reader deems the findings are transferable to their clinical milieu then the implications for practice relate to the need for careful consideration about empowerment in relation to operational definitions for practice, how terminology and related intervention is contextualised and the relationship between pragmatic empowerment and the medical paradigm.

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Stewart Piper, 11/04/09

Piper S - Empowerment is by no means a straightforward concept and can mean different things to different people depending upon who is using it and in what context. It is embedded in the language of current health policy, literature and the wider consumer culture. It is central to UK Government plans to modernise the National Health Service (NHS), create a customer focused, advocacy, informed choice and expert patient movement in the UK NHS and is thus becoming a central feature of health care. Hence, this article discusses the elements of research findings that relate to empowerment in conjunction with the pertinent literature to contextualise empowerment as a pragmatic, applied technology and what this represents ideologically for nursing but which may also be transferable to other health care professionals (HCPs).

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