Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
~ Kofi Annan

That is why it is so important to have the opportunity to teach and empower members, patients, and people in Nursing. It gives people the opportunity to make the correct choices about their responsibility with their healthcare. That is why I so appreciate Barbara Carper's theory on nursing. Learn the information to teach (empirics), teach it in a way the person understands and implements into their knowledge base or life (aesthetics), understand themselves and constantly learn and apply that knowledge to their own practice (self-learning), and do the right thing in the right way (ethics).