Negativity of disempowerment narratives was countered
by students’ enthusiasm to share practice experiences where
they had felt empowered. On the basis of these anecdotal
accounts we sought to understand what empowering and
disempowering situations are like for nursing students. Our
belief was that key stakeholders in nurse education require
this kind of understanding in order to facilitate provision of
empowering, rather than disempowering clinical placements.