title: Nurses' new approach to helping patients.
abstract: The person who uses a supportive facilitating approach assists another to grow. Although this approach has been used historically by parents and in education, it is only recently that medical and nursing professionals have adopted it. This approach promotes mutual participation in decision making and a collaborative rather than an authoritarian approach by the helper. A facilitating approach maximizes independence and, in the end, helps others to help themselves.
authors: Logansport State Hospital, IN.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Davidhizar
mesh_terms: D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D012932:Social Facilitation; D014481:United States