title: [The place of ethics in patient empowerment].
abstract: Therapeutic education teaches patients how to understand, grasp and take personal charge of their pathology. This freedom of choice and action can cause patients to feel guilty, especially if their condition worsens. How should this form of empowerment be managed, by the caregiver as well as the patient? Questioning of an ethical nature is therefore necessary.
authors.affiliation: Centre hospitalier de Mâcon. laurence.hobik@orange.fr
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hobik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018450:Disease Progression; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006167:Guilt; D015438:Health Behavior; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D010358:Patient Participation; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011209:Power, Psychological