If the goal of empowerment is to assist a client to make healthy choices about lifestyle and activities, which nursing behavior exemplifies empowerment?
a. Encouraging the confused client with breast cancer to accept without question the physician's advice for an immediate mastectomy.
b. Teaching a client with a family history of heart disease about exercise and diet to help prevent heart disease.
c. Taking a client to his doctor's appointment.
d. Giving the client his prescribed medications.
ANS: B
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