title: Professional accountability: the path to empowerment.
abstract: Pippa Gough argues that practitioners should exercise their professional accountability and competence to the full in order better to meet the needs and serve the interests of their patients and clients--and to establish nursing's rightful place at the centre of the health care world.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Gough
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*