EMPOWERMENT OF GRADUATE NURSING-STUDENTS - A DIALOGUE TOWARD CHANGE

This article represents the first phase in exploration of empowerment of graduate advanced practice nursing students. This phase includes a review of the relevant literature on empowerment and discusses the app licability of this literature to current educational practice. The aut hors suggest that creating an empowering environment for learning nece ssitates dramatic change in teaching methodology and in faculty-studen t perspective about their roles. An ongoing dialogue among faculty and between students and faculty is proposed to begin to conceptualize th is change. This article also presents a synopsis of a dialogue between the two authors late further discussion. Copyright (C) 1996 by W.B. S aunders Company.