Nurses' responses to expert patients: the rhetoric and reality of self-management in long-term conditions: a grounded theory study.

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Summary

Apart from nurse specialists the majority of nurses appeared limited in appropriately facilitating self-management, which is suggested to be linked to an ongoing nursing culture of patient as passive, an over-emphasis on empirical knowledge and a feeling of vulnerability on the nurses' part towards expert patients.

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article
Published
2006-09-01
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Keywords

Grounded theory, Rhetoric, Term (time), Psychology, Social psychology

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