because the patient identifies with the nurse who is providing guidance and help to the patient.
The exploitation phase of the nurse patient relationship is a time in which new goals for the patient are derived by the patient (with the guidance of the nurse), and in which the power in the nurse patient relationship shifts from the nurse to the patient. The patient gains this power by deferring gratification during the period in which the new goals for the patient are being pursued and (hopefully) attained (Peplau, 1952, pp. 37 39).
The fourth and last phase of the nurse patient relationship, the resolution phase, is one in which the patient frees herself or himself from a strong identification with the nurse. In the resolution phase, full power in the nurse patient relationship has passed to the patient, who now controls her or his own actions. In this phase
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