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The world-wide rise in chronic disease demands a shift from traditional provider-centered care toward collaborative care, in which facilitating patients' self-management is a key component. Self-management is a person's ability to manage a chronic condition (symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences, and life style changes) in such a way that optimal quality of life is achieved. Healthcare providers should be fully equipped to provide adequate self-management support (SMS). Nurses, with their central role in patient care, are expected to take the lead in this direction, implying that new competencies need to be developed and trained.