title: Encouraging patients to take part in their own care.
abstract: The patient is now being seen as a consumer of health care and as having certain rights. At the same time, the development of primary nursing and nursing theories, with their basis in the ethos of self-care, is also encouraging patient participation in decision-making and care-giving with the results that it is now viewed as being essential in providing individualised nursing care in the 1990s. This paper discusses some of the issues.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Saunders
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012648:Self Care