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Explore a variety of issues related to advocacy and empowerment, and begin to develop a personal concept of the nurse's role in supporting users/carers to achieve independence  

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Living within a Community: The nurse's role module (Module code: HCN06-1) Learning Outcome: Explore a variety of issues related to advocacy and empowerment, and begin to develop a personal concept of the nurse's role in supporting users/carers to achieve independence by Martina Bazikova In this essay the writer will identify the importance of advocacy and empowerment and reflect upon her own application of these concepts within the field of learning-disability nursing. Before researching this learning contract, the writer had little perception of advocacy and empowerment, nor their tremendous significance, despite several years' experience working in nursing. It is within learning-disability nursing the benefits of both disciplines have been most strongly felt in recent times. Working on a practice placement caring for such patients, and principally on one individual case, detailed later, the writer has come to value them and to consider their increasing use in this field, as shown by the recent...

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