title: [The nursing experience of helping an elderly stroke patient with feelings of powerlessness via life review method].
abstract: This report describes the nursing experience of using the life review approach to help an elderly stroke patient reduce his feelings of powerlessness. The nursing care lasted between March 14th and May 24th, 2006. In the study of the nursing process, the author uses Gordon's assessment tools to gather subjective and objective information to establish the nursing problems, including activity intolerance, swallowing impairment, high risk of falling down, and powerlessness. Aiming at the nursing problem of powerlessness, the author makes use of the oral history method to conduct a life review of the client. Through the process of life reviewing, the client expressed acceptance of his life, reduced his feelings of powerlessness, and achieved the integration of his ego with his life. This case report might serve as a reference in guiding nurses to provide appropriate nursing interventions in helping clients with similar problems to obtain inner peace and reduce their feelings of powerlessness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Linkou Chang-Gun Memorial Hospital.
authors.forename: Ying-Chun
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Hung-Ru
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D020521:Stroke / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology