title: Empowerment: reformulation of a non-Rogerian concept.
abstract: The authors present a reformulation of empowerment based upon historical and current perspectives of empowerment and a synthesis of existing literature and Rogerian thought. Reformulation of non-Rogerian concepts familiar to nurses is proposed as a strategy to accelerate the mainstreaming of Rogerian thought into nursing practice and research. The reformulation of empowerment as a participatory process of well-being inherent among human beings may provide nurses with new insights for practice. This paper may also serve as a model for reformulating other non-Rogerian concepts and theories for wider dissemination across the discipline.
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University College of Nursing, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
authors.forename: Nelma B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Crawford Shearer
authors.forename: Pamela G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Reed
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001318:Authoritarianism; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010358:Patient Participation; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011209:Power, Psychological; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology