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what strategies are or might be effective to empower clients to make health decisions? How might these strategies also encourage clients to be accountable for their own health? Provide rationale for your response.
These are the following strategies to empower clients to make healthy decisions. Empowering patients will results in changes in self, relationships with others, and behaviors.
Patient engagement towards their health- Nurses properly engage their patients as a standard of care by explaining to them what is going on and how they intend to treat their problem.
Be Responsive to the Patient Needs- Effective patient care requires a team in order to puts the patient at the center and make them an active participant by listening and respond to the patient’s needs. Nurses are patient advocates and it is a necessity to openly communicate, effectively educate and provide transparent treatment and care to empower your patients to take control of their own health.
Personalized interventions are necessary for designing culturally-sensitive to sustain patient's involvement in their treatment and encourage them to take part in their own health and health care. Patient activation and empowerment is a cyclical process for their own health care that defined through the patient accumulation of knowledge, confidence, and self-determination. The empowerment framework (individual-, health care professional-, community-, and health care delivery system-level) improves population health and reduce racial and ethnic inequality and will be helpful to engaging patients in their treatment, developing their abilities to manage their health, helping patients to express concerns and preferences regarding treatment, empowering them to ask questions about treatment options, and building up strategic patient-provider relationship by shared decision making.