When planning an education class for clients suffering from addiction,

QUESTION

When planning an education class for clients suffering from addiction, the nurse recognizes that a format that encourages empowerment is an important goal of health teaching. Which of the following is a strategy that could be viewed as disempowering?

a. Providing the client with sufficient information
b. Providing the client with emotional support
c. Placing the learner in charge of his or her learning
d. Having the nurse assume primary responsibility for the learning process

ANSWER:

ANS: D
A highly participative learning environment, in which the nurse provides the teaching while the learner assumes primary responsibility for the learning process, encourages empowerment. Empowerment strategies include providing sufficient information, specific instructions, and emotional support—but no more than is required—to allow each client to take charge of his or her health care to whatever extent is possible. Client-centered strategies place the learner in charge of his or her learning and build on personal strengths to achieve learning objectives.