title: Compliance: a concept analysis.
abstract: Compliance has a myriad of definitions. Understanding it as a phenomenon is complicated by the different perspectives of different disciplines. Nurses need to define compliance in a manner that best fits the philosophy of the nursing discipline. This article makes a distinction between the ordinary use and the scientific use of the term compliance. Nurses are challenged to embrace an interactive, transactional process in order to form a partnership with clients, which allows for client choice and control in decision making about carrying out the prescribed behavior.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, School of Nursing, USA. levangel@ucla.edu
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Evangelista
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010358:Patient Participation; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012648:Self Care